8 thoughts on “Professor Mann”

1. It will forever be amusing that the villain in Interstellar was a Dr Mann who lied about the climate on his planet.

   1. You could tell that the movie’s writers desperately wanted to leverage some kind of climate catastrophe as the trope for the disaster that befell Earth as impetus for the migration off-planet. But settled for a solar/weather driven ‘corn blight’. One trope as corny as the other I suppose…

      1. I forgave the gimmickry tho’ because I loved the application of relativity.

         1. Never saw the movie, but anytime you invoke Relativity, you are dealing with energy equivalents to mass, the radiation of which fries eggs at 4 light years.

            1. You should see the movie. You have two explorers who leave a colleague behind in space on the mother ship when they go down to visit a planet that is inside an orbit around a black hole with an intense gravitational field. Finding the planet uninhabitable, after only a few hours on the surface, they not only barely escape with their lives, they were somewhat surprised upon their return. But they really shouldn’t have been. Under the principles of GR…

      2. Awhile back, I played the video game “Starfield.” As soon as I learned Earth was uninhabitable, I was like “great….here comes the climastrology claptrap.” But no, even though it was man-made it wasn’t the usual climate drivel. Per the plot in the game, efforts to manipulate gravity to develop faster than light travel ended up destroying the Earth’s magnetic field, basically turning it into another Mars. Yes, it was a story in a game, but it wasn’t preachy, no baked in climate messaging crap.

2. Mann overboard:

   https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/10/02/real-mann-of-science-quits-his-job-n3807434

3. Being a Vice Provost, or any higher administrative function, normally means a boost in salary. Presumably, that at least will disappear.

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