When I was a wee puppy , my preferred thing about James Bond movies were the scenes with Q. Back then , getting a peek behind the laboratory of harebrained gadgets and wild weapon was just as nerveless as killing bad hombre in a black tie and sleeping with women without one . But how real were those movie - world widget ? Giz favoriteNeil deGrasse Tyson analyze and fact checkedBond weapon to see which were scientifically executable .
In an interview with NPR ( you’re able to listen to it here ) , Neil deGrasse Tyson shows us what arm could theoretically be real ( like , actually exist in the tangible mankind ) and which gadgets could only exist in the Movie world . Could a ring , when twisted , emit a gamy enough frequency to break field glass ? Maybe ! What about a watch that could emit a magnetic field so strong it could ward off a smoke ? Nope ! Bullets are made out of lead .
So what could be real ? According to Neil deGrasse Tyson , not much . But that ’s not a bad thing :
“ What made the Bond gadgets attractive is that they used a little bit of what you already knew was out there , and just take it to some extreme , forcing you to say , ‘ Yeah , that could happen , ’ even if it had to violate a few Torah of physics along the direction . ”
We all just want them to be existent . That ’s probably because we all just need to be James Bond , too . [ NPR ]
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