Apparently, director Roland Emmerich makes far-fetched films grounded in shaky science. NASA and The Science & Entertainment Exchange have branded Emmerich's apocalyptic epic 2012 as the most "absurd" sci-fi film ever made.

According to The Australian , NASA scientists and SEE recently had a day-long meeting at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California where they ranked 2012 as Hollywood's best (or is that worst?) example of bad science in a sci-fi film. Runners-up included Armageddon Volcano , and Chain Reaction "The filmmakers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America, whose calendar ends on December 21, 2012," said Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission. "The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We have never had to do this before."It wasn't all Hollywood-bashing, though. The scientists hailed Blade Runner as "good" and "realistic" sci-fi.