Top Gun

Neil deGrasse Tyson is simply not buying Tom Cruise's latest stuntwork in “Top Gun: Maverick.” It's not because the astrophysicist thinks Cruise isn't ...

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson fact-checked the stunts in "Top Gun: Maverick" and called out Tom Cruise for impossible plot holes.

Very dead. He be dead. Meanwhile, “Mission: Impossible” star Cruise has his sights set on more out-of-this-world stunts: becoming the first actor to shoot a film in space. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) Later, as part of the mission for the Top Gun pilots, Tyson wrote that “they dangerously fly under the radar, through a narrow, winding canyon to destroy a target, avoiding multiple banks of surface-to-air missiles. We had a big monitor and went over every shot of the day, every storyboard, every piece of previs, every line of dialogue. For this reason, the air on your body, if ejecting at these speeds, might as well be a brick wall.” At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm,” Tyson Very dead.” “At supersonic speeds, air cannot smoothly part for you. Tyson took to Twitter to point out that Maverick would “splatter” immediately after leaving the plane. “Late to the party here, but in this year’s ‘Top Gun,’ Tom Cruise’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson took aim at the physics of the "Top Gun: Maverick" stunts, and explains that Tom Cruise's pilot would have a gruesome death.

For this reason, the air on your body, if ejecting at these speeds, might as well be a brick wall." —Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm." But according to Tyson, the ace pilot should've faced a grisly death as soon as he exited the plane. [applies real science to movies and TV shows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-b4wqaDIQ&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert) to explain how they wouldn't work, recently taking aim at [Tom Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick." But according to Tyson, Cruise's iconic character wouldn't have made it past the

Tyson, who has headed up several science-based TV programmes including StarTalk and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, shared his opinions on the film on social media ...

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Tom Cruise doesn't adhere to the laws of physics.

Everything about Top Gun: Maverick takes place in a heightened reality, even if a lot of the story is grounded in real-world elements, so nobody was really asking for Tyson to come along and break down the mechanics of why it was so unfeasible. Nobody goes to see a Cruise caper for realism or 100 percent accuracy, and based on how hard he’s being roasted, it would appear that fans will not stand for any sort of slander. Director Joseph Kosinski and star Tom Cruise combined to deliver an airborne epic for the ages, one that still won’t disappear from the box office charts, having spent over four months residing in the domestic Top 10.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, along with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson have broken down the physics behind Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick.

In other Elon Musk news, the SpaceX CEO recently back-peddled on his decision to purchase Twitter and has decided to follow through with the $44 billion acquisition of the world's second-largest social media platform. deGrasse Tyson added that the human body is incapable of surviving this much kinetic energy and that Maverick would have certainly died in the real-world. However, Musk decided to provide a solution for this problem that might save Maverick's life if he was to eject at 7,000 mph in the real-world.

A popular Top Gun: Maverick fans theory suggests that the whole movie is a dream of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, as he dies in the opening scene.

Top Gun: Maverick has become the biggest sequel of all time, and it continues to impress fans. There is a possibility that the movie will be available on Paramount Plus in the future. The opening scene of Top Gun: Maverick shows him flying the Dark Star and trying to push it to a speed it has never flown before. However, the fan theory suggests that Maverick actually dies during this explosion and the whole film is nothing but a dream following his death. Most scenes are dreamy and indicate that the character is trying to have peace with everyone. The sequel to the 1986 film grabbed $1.4 billion at the box office and became the highest-grossing film of 2022.