Neil deGrasse Tyson Pokes Holes in ‘Gravity’

Neil deGrasse Tyson Pokes Holes in ‘Gravity’
Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone in the dramatic thriller “Gravity,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
Zachary Stieber
10/7/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

Neil deGrasse Tyson, a famed astrophysicist, enjoyed the movie “Gravity” but puzzles over some of the aspects of the film. (spoiler alert)

Tyson said on Twitter on Monday night that he enjoyed “Gravity” very much, but he also posited a series of musings about the film.

Besides suggesting that the film should be renamed “Angular Momentum” or “Zero Gravity,” and that the film depicts a realistic scenario of catastrophic satellite destruction, here’s what he had to say.