Sloppy science on Official website?


Maybe I'm being too picky, but one of the "factoids" on the official website (http://www.imax.com/magnificentdesolation) seems a little off to me. It states:

"The Astronaut's Spacesuits were designed to withstand the moon's average daylight temperature of 300 F (100 C)."
http://www.imax.com/magnificentdesolation/pops/images/image_pop_r2c2-2.jpg

Now, I know this is only a rough estimate, and maybe it's just a simple website mistake, but technically isn't 300F closer to 150C than 100C?. Or, if the actual number is supposed to be 100C, then perhaps 200F would be a better conversion. I mean, 100C is the boiling point of water. And most people remember this as 212 degrees Fahrenheit, right?

In any case, what it really does is raise the question: What other aspects of the technology and/or science have the producers been sloppy with?

I wouldn't normally care about movie science being 100% accurate, but since this movie is (or should be) grounded in science, and it has a rather high profile: there will probably be alot of children and laypeople watching it. Therefore, it seems important for all of the facts and science to be as accurate and authentic as possible.

I'm sure the producers would agree. Is there any way to contact them?

Otherwise, I'm looking forward to the movie very much. :)

Respectfully,
Joel

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Actually, when considering significant digits, it is correct.

On your post, there was no decimal point after 300 F. Only one sig fig.

100 C only one sig fig. If it had read 300. F. then it should have been 149. C.

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To be precise there are actually 3 sig figs. If there was only 1 sig fig it would be shown like this: 1x10^2 C or 3x10^2F. Because there are actually 3 sig figs there, it is a mistake to not say 149 C or at least 150 C.

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According to NASA, the daytime surface temp gets up to ~111 C, which would be ~232 F. So, yes it's a typo on their site and I certainly wouldn't say a rounding error.

http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/Activities/ExpMoon/MoonFactSheet.pdf

But I don't believe in Jebus!

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