The Monte Hall Effect
About
About The Monte Hall Effect
Tim Lloyd and Tola Marts are two leaders in the Seattle aerospace community with over forty years of experience between them dealing with aerospace and high tech issues. They're also avid film buffs, and in each podcast, they take a different science fiction film and discuss three key facets:
- Science: how well do the scientific ideas in the film reflect real science and engineering
- Fiction: do the film's plot and characterizations take the viewer on a fun or intriguing journey
- Film: does the movie make the most of cinematography, so that it works better in conveying its ideas than it would in a book, or graphic novel, or play?
At the end of each podcast, they'll give the film a percentage rating for each of these facets.
Note: there will be spoilers for the film being discussed, but they will try to keep spoilers for other films to a minimum.
The podcast theme music intro and outro is written and performed by by Guy Ellis. More of his music can be found at https://soundcloud.com/gu42 and https://www.facebook.com/cloudcoverband.
The What Effect?- The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser with a lesson about probability.
- The Monte Carlo Method is an algorithm used to probabilistically predict the behavior of a system.
- A Hall Effect Thruster uses an electromagnetic field to accelerate satellites and other space vehicles.
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