Hollywood Science
Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrap Heap Challenge) and Dr Jonathan Hare (Rough Science) take on Hollywood Science, testing the science that filmgoers take for granted. Armed only with basic tools, our intrepid DIY duo put some of Hollywood’s most famous sequences to the test by recreating them - in Jonathan’s back garden...
Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrap Heap Challenge) and Dr Jonathan Hare (Rough Science) take on Hollywood Science, testing the science that filmgoers take for granted. Armed only with basic tools, our intrepid DIY duo put some of Hollywood’s most famous sequences to the test by recreating them - in Jonathan’s back garden...
Over-egged?
Fancy an egg? And another? And another... could anyone eat eggs like Paul Newman appears to in Cool Hand Luke?
Plain sailing?
Would your metal boat - and your Gran - really get eaten away by lakes turned to acid, or does the real world not work like Dante's Peak?
Die Hard
Could Bruce Willis have saved the world with a singlet and a hosepipe - or would he just have created a nasty way to Die Hard?
A hill to climb
You're on your way for a cold beer when your ambulance gets stuck in a gully - can you escape like they did in Ice Cold In Alex?
Urine - and then you're out?
Can urine really make fabric strong enough to allow escape from prison? Or was Jackie Chan taking the mickey in Shanghai Noon?
Keanu can-do?
If you needed to get a large bus across a larger gap, could you apply the lessons from Speed?
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