Fun fact!

  • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I very nearly made a post about this earlier!

    Futurama was blessed with writers with advanced degrees, and I think their approach to making science and mathematics based jokes was about perfect. In the situations where they’re doing something that breaks a law of reality, they have some fun little explanation of how that’s possible (“Scientists increased the speed of light…”).

    I think this is one of the raisins that I appreciate the show on a level all its own.

  • aeternum@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s lots of legit physics and maths in the show. I believe some of the writers are maths professors and shit.

  • Christopher-Bull@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s really cool.

    I know there are other instances of this scenario occurring in books and TV. I recall the episode of Stargate SG-1 (“Holiday”, S2:E17) where they body swap after visiting a planet and meeting Ma’chello, but had to figure out that they could not swap back directly with a previously switched pair.