Comic-Con: Iron Man and the Scientists Who Love Him (His Movie, Anyway) | Science Not Fiction

Sure scientists enjoy the first Iron Man movie.

 They’re human beings 

after all, and that was 

a pretty

 decent movie. But I would never have expected scientists to love

 it for…well, for its 

approach to science.

At the NewSpace panel I attended yesterday, Mark Street,

 from XCOR

, said he and a group of colleagues went to see the first

 film together.

“Our favorite part was the testing,” he said at the panel. 

“You know the part where he tries 

out the rocket boots, and he turns them on at like 10% 

and gets thrown onto the roof of car?

 We cracked up because

 that’s exactly what happens.”

“Iron Man had the scientific method,” he said. “It didn’t always work.”