Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film.
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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film
"Silent Running". You can't have a viable ecosystem for long in a bubble that small. The predators alone needed a larger territory.
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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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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.Arse wrote: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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Well.............you can't travel through time in a Delorean anyway, so who gives a fuck?
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How do you a DeLorean passed by recently? The white lines are all gone.Arse wrote:Well.............you can't travel through time in a Delorean anyway, so who gives a fuck?
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Won't just the oxygen on your tongue boil, but other than that you'd be fine? In space, I meanGawdzilla wrote:I've heard both, but seen little to support either. (Actual live tests, that is.)Psychoserenity wrote: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.Animavore wrote:I thought breathing out was what you had to do?Feck wrote:Any and ALL films where people survive in a vacuum by wrapping up warm and holding their breath.

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Arse wrote:Well.............you can't travel through time in a Delorean anyway, so who gives a fuck?

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
It would - the Sulaco had artificial gravity.colubridae wrote:The same in aliens, when the marine dropship 'falls' out of the orbiting space-warship.Psychoserenity wrote: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.Animavore wrote:Oh and everyone sliding along to ground to port side when the ship banked in space in Wall-E really annoyed me.
Every thing in Aliens is perfect in every way. So there.

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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?Normal wrote:Won't just the oxygen on your tongue boil, but other than that you'd be fine? In space, I meanGawdzilla wrote:I've heard both, but seen little to support either. (Actual live tests, that is.)Psychoserenity wrote: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.Animavore wrote:I thought breathing out was what you had to do?Feck wrote:Any and ALL films where people survive in a vacuum by wrapping up warm and holding their breath.
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Apart from Carrie Henn.Every thing in Aliens is perfect in every way
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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
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

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"Will somebody tell me why I still smoke these damn things?"Link wrote:Continuity in Heroes
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Yes, keep your mouth shut. Humans can't breathe space, we breathe airGawdzilla 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?

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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film
Dont' care about the sulaco.BlackBart wrote:It would - the Sulaco had artificial gravity.colubridae wrote:The same in aliens, when the marine dropship 'falls' out of the orbiting space-warship.Psychoserenity wrote: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.Animavore wrote:Oh and everyone sliding along to ground to port side when the ship banked in space in Wall-E really annoyed me.
Every thing in Aliens is perfect in every way. So there.
The dropship would have stayed in orbit. It would have required a propulsion system to de-orbit.


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Re: Most spectacular piece of scientific revisionism in film
Artifical gravity, of course.Psychoserenity wrote: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.Animavore wrote:Oh and everyone sliding along to ground to port side when the ship banked in space in Wall-E really annoyed me.
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