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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 05, 2010 4:09 pm

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Post by Arse » Wed May 05, 2010 4:10 pm

But it wouldn't have been taken if the kids didn't exist, so the photograph itself should have started disappearing.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 05, 2010 4:23 pm

Arse wrote:But it wouldn't have been taken if the kids didn't exist, so the photograph itself should have started disappearing.
Only the things that are disappearing or "unrealed" are being deleted. The room might have disappeared after the last kid vanished, but that's only a maybe, IMHO.
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Post by Arse » Wed May 05, 2010 4:27 pm

Well.............you can't travel through time in a Delorean anyway, so who gives a fuck?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 05, 2010 4:29 pm

Arse wrote:Well.............you can't travel through time in a Delorean anyway, so who gives a fuck?
How do you a DeLorean passed by recently? The white lines are all gone.
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by normal » Wed May 05, 2010 4:31 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
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Feck wrote:Any and ALL films where people survive in a vacuum by wrapping up warm and holding their breath.
I thought breathing out was what you had to do?
As far as I understand it, you would violently leek fluids and gases from every available orifice (they certainly never have that in the films) and would be in a lot of pain, but would survive for a little while.
I've heard both, but seen little to support either. (Actual live tests, that is.)
Won't just the oxygen on your tongue boil, but other than that you'd be fine? In space, I mean
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by PsychoSerenity » Wed May 05, 2010 4:35 pm

Arse wrote:Well.............you can't travel through time in a Delorean anyway, so who gives a fuck?
:lol:
There are a few different ways to write time travel without paradoxes but I think you are right that Back to the Future failed at it. Still a good film though.
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by BlackBart » Wed May 05, 2010 4:35 pm

colubridae wrote:
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Animavore wrote:Oh and everyone sliding along to ground to port side when the ship banked in space in Wall-E really annoyed me.
Reminds me of Star Wars when a ship is in free fall towards a planet and tips up, and everyone falls down in the ship, rather than appearing to float.
The same in aliens, when the marine dropship 'falls' out of the orbiting space-warship.
It would - the Sulaco had artificial gravity.

Every thing in Aliens is perfect in every way. So there. :tantrum:
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

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Feck wrote:Any and ALL films where people survive in a vacuum by wrapping up warm and holding their breath.
I thought breathing out was what you had to do?
As far as I understand it, you would violently leek fluids and gases from every available orifice (they certainly never have that in the films) and would be in a lot of pain, but would survive for a little while.
I've heard both, but seen little to support either. (Actual live tests, that is.)
Won't just the oxygen on your tongue boil, but other than that you'd be fine? In space, I mean
First off, the pressure has to drop suddenly INSIDE your body. Keep your mouth shut and hold your nose and this will happen much slower. The boiling is in proportion to the gas pressure, and that rate I don't know. Anybody? 98.6 F liquid boils at what air pressure?
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Post by Arse » Wed May 05, 2010 4:44 pm

Every thing in Aliens is perfect in every way
Apart from Carrie Henn.
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by Link » Wed May 05, 2010 4:45 pm

Continuity in Heroes

I can suspend disbelief with regards to the superpowers but there are so many continuity issues in that program caused by inattentive writing of time travel story arcs that it just gets silly. I don't even know why I'm still watching it :banghead:

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 05, 2010 4:50 pm

Link wrote:Continuity in Heroes

I can suspend disbelief with regards to the superpowers but there are so many continuity issues in that program caused by inattentive writing of time travel story arcs that it just gets silly. I don't even know why I'm still watching it :banghead:
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by normal » Wed May 05, 2010 4:54 pm

Gawdzilla wrote: First off, the pressure has to drop suddenly INSIDE your body. Keep your mouth shut and hold your nose and this will happen much slower. The boiling is in proportion to the gas pressure, and that rate I don't know. Anybody? 98.6 F liquid boils at what air pressure?
Yes, keep your mouth shut. Humans can't breathe space, we breathe air
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by colubridae » Wed May 05, 2010 10:00 pm

BlackBart wrote:
colubridae wrote:
Psychoserenity wrote:
Animavore wrote:Oh and everyone sliding along to ground to port side when the ship banked in space in Wall-E really annoyed me.
Reminds me of Star Wars when a ship is in free fall towards a planet and tips up, and everyone falls down in the ship, rather than appearing to float.
The same in aliens, when the marine dropship 'falls' out of the orbiting space-warship.
It would - the Sulaco had artificial gravity.

Every thing in Aliens is perfect in every way. So there. :tantrum:
Dont' care about the sulaco.

The dropship would have stayed in orbit. It would have required a propulsion system to de-orbit. :tantrum: :tantrum:

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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film

Post by Trolldor » Thu May 06, 2010 2:44 am

Psychoserenity wrote:
Animavore wrote:Oh and everyone sliding along to ground to port side when the ship banked in space in Wall-E really annoyed me.
Reminds me of Star Wars when a ship is in free fall towards a planet and tips up, and everyone falls down in the ship, rather than appearing to float.
Artifical gravity, of course.
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