| 1 | * When Zenon is in science class on Earth, the teacher gives the class a temperature to heat a beaker to. She heats it to 250 degrees Celsius. The beaker explodes, and the teacher berates her by saying, "Down here, we're still using Fahrenheit." This is a science class. You always use metric measurements in science class. Not to mention how this totally ignores the fact that there's only ''[[EagleLand one country in the entire world]]'' who doesn't have the metric system as their standardized system of measurement, thus rendering the teacher's statement extremely ignorant. This isn't even HollywoodScience, this is Critical Research Failure. |
| 2 | ** The movie takes place in the future. It's possible that people don't use the metric system anymore. |
| 3 | *** ...but it's not even that far in the future. A year that all things considered isn't even that far off. And it's not exactly logical that the entire world would abandon a system that works and always has worked when only three countries in the whole world uses a different one and when they still use the metric system ''in outer freaking space''. |
| 4 | ** The earth scenes take place in the United States. While it's still really dumb for a science class in the US to use Fahrenheit, it's somewhat less Critical Research Failure because yes, some Americans really are ignorant enough to use "earth" to refer to the US and assume that a level of 250 degrees Celsius would only be used in space or in labs, and not lowly science classes. Granted, it's still dumb and ignorant, but it shows you just how much the writers don't know anything about science. |
| 5 | ** Going a step further, science classes in the real world ALWAYS give units. If the instructions didn't specify Fahrenheit, it's the teacher's fault. |
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