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  2. A Meteorologist Weighs in on the Science Behind 'Twisters'

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    "In the original Twister, the idea of putting these Dorothy sensor balls into a tornado is completely science fiction, but it inspired a generation of people to want to do scientific research on ...

  3. Twisters (film) - Wikipedia

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    Twisters is a 2024 American disaster film directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on a story by Joseph Kosinski. Serving as a standalone sequel to Twister (1996), it stars Daisy Edgar-Jones , Glen Powell , Anthony Ramos , Brandon Perea , Maura Tierney , and Sasha Lane .

  4. Science behind 'Twisters': Can you really 'kill' a tornado ...

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    After a record-setting year for tornadoes, the release of stand-alone sequel "Twisters" this week is particularly timely.. The disaster film follows two storm chasers on their quest to research ...

  5. The Real History Behind 'Twisters' - AOL

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    C entral to the plot of Twisters, the 2024 stand-alone sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, is a scientific dream: researcher Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) wants to launch absorbent polymer ...

  6. History of tornado research - Wikipedia

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    On July 19, the hit disaster-film Twisters released, which included accurate scientific theories on ways to potentially disrupt tornadoes. [147] On July 30, Andrew Mercer, Kenneth Swan, and Adonte Knight with Mississippi State University published the first quantitative definition for how to define a tornado outbreak. The researchers also ...

  7. Talk:Twisters (film) - Wikipedia

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    The scientific accuracy section is not the best place to locate such a link because the section considers how well the film's creators consulted with NOAA and other scientists for their research as part of the project, not research that furthered tornado science.

  8. How those 'Twisters' tornadoes got to look so real — and scary

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    CGI technology has, of course, made quantum leaps since you worked on "Twister" 18 years ago. One tornado in "Twisters" probably took as much computing power as we used to make the whole of the ...

  9. Tuckerization - Wikipedia

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    Tuckerization (or tuckerism [1]) is the act of using a person's name in an original story as an in-joke.The term is derived from Wilson Tucker, a pioneering American science fiction writer, fan and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends' names for minor characters in his stories.