Just trying to help ya out. I knew you would be expecting something like that, so I thought I'd supply it. I'm just here to be a blessing.
Sure you are.
Kind of like a big thorn in my side.
Pet Peeves/Things That Happen in TV and Movies That Would Never Work In Real Life.
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Sure you are.
Kind of like a big thorn in my side.
Oh yeah, I forgot one. How come everybody immediately breaks into a song and dance? How do they all know the words to this song? How do they all know the moves and why is the whole (school cafeteria, workplace break room, sidewalk crowd) doing this song and dance around somebody who is supposed to be a total stranger to them?
Total immersion breaker. I mean I like music more than most of the people I know, but sticking it in the plot of a movie just ruins the whole flow.
Total immersion breaker. I mean I like music more than most of the people I know, but sticking it in the plot of a movie just ruins the whole flow.
I watched Interstellar recently, and there was a scene when the bad guy tried to get away with the space ship, and everything exploded... and it was silent for a few seconds. I guess they just want us to know what it would sound like if there was sound. Most of us have not been that far out, so we do not actually know from first hand experience that sound does not exist in outer space
You are like my daughter, who normally can't stand musicals. I did convince her to watch La La Land, and she did not hate it as much as other musicals she has seen... plus, she wanted to see the Oscar contenders at the time, and that was coming up to the awards. However, things like Chicago and Moulin Rouge she does not care for at all, whereas I quite enjoyed both. Some musicals don't seem make as much sense to me or just don't translate well into screen. Also, ever since I was quite young and people would question something about a movie, I would say it was in the script
On the TV show The Flash, they made a big deal about Barry Allen running faster than the speed of sound when he was racing to punch a bad guy. But the bad guy heard him coming and turned around. How did the sound waves reach the bad guy before Barry's fist did? 
Also, I was watching some cowboy show or movie, and they're riding across a vast expanse of desert and this one guy says, it'll be dark soon, we need to make camp.
I was thinking, son, your shadow says it's about 30 minutes away from noon. Don't even try to sell that.
I was thinking, son, your shadow says it's about 30 minutes away from noon. Don't even try to sell that.
On the TV show The Flash, they made a big deal about Barry Allen running faster than the speed of sound when he was racing to punch a bad guy. But the bad guy heard him coming and turned around. How did the sound waves reach the bad guy before Barry's fist did?
Let's say the flash is running at mach 1 and comes to a sudden stop to punch the bad guy. This means the sonic boom just behind Flash ended the second he stopped but continued the sound wave which reached the bad guy before Flash could pull his fist back to hit him, causing him to turn around in response to the boom just in time to get smashed in the face.
Quite reasonable.
Au contraire, mon ami. It probably actually was going to be dark soon. Film makers almost always film night scenes during the day with the use of lenses making the filming appear to be at night. It's cheaper to film during the day, makes the crew happy because they insist on having a life, and the buffaloes refuse to stampede after sunset.
Film makers also used to spread vaseline over the lens of the camera to make actresses and actors look even more beautiful by slightly softening their rougher edges.
So, it's quite likely that it was going to be dark soon. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go lather up.
It's funny that I wasn't picking on a guy being ABLE to run faster than the speed of sound. No, I'll suspend my disbelief for that. That's just good fun. But the sound waves thing? That was impossible.
Just like in this movie I saw about half of, called Event Horizon. I was fine with the premise that a spacecraft could become sentient and take over the minds and bodies of its crew members. But the idea that someone would build a spaceship that seemed to consist solely of large, empty corridors? Never.
Can I interest you in some very fashionable eyeglasses that are covered with Vaseline?
Another thing, about cloaking devices. Why are they never used to maximum tactical advantage?
Remember the old Star Trek series, where Kirk was always against the Klingons? Why did the Klingons never send a fleet of cloaked ships to carpet-bomb the Earth? Or even destroy the whole planet - planetcracker bombs were possible with antimatter, it has been done before. Fly one ship in, cloaked all the way, (have to uncloak to fire weapons) BOOM, no more earth, cloak and leave.
If you're going to make a bad guy that is smart enough to develop invisible ships, you can't make him also dumb enough to ignore tactical advantages.
Same goes for the Romulans. They are much more clever and they have cloaked ships and they have a major chip on their shoulder for the Federation. Long before the ST:TNG tachyon sensor grid they could have sent one cloaked Warbird to Earth, one to Vulcan and blown them up. Why did they not?
Remember the old Star Trek series, where Kirk was always against the Klingons? Why did the Klingons never send a fleet of cloaked ships to carpet-bomb the Earth? Or even destroy the whole planet - planetcracker bombs were possible with antimatter, it has been done before. Fly one ship in, cloaked all the way, (have to uncloak to fire weapons) BOOM, no more earth, cloak and leave.
If you're going to make a bad guy that is smart enough to develop invisible ships, you can't make him also dumb enough to ignore tactical advantages.
Same goes for the Romulans. They are much more clever and they have cloaked ships and they have a major chip on their shoulder for the Federation. Long before the ST:TNG tachyon sensor grid they could have sent one cloaked Warbird to Earth, one to Vulcan and blown them up. Why did they not?
When a non federation ship passes through the Van Allen radiation field it trips earth shielding.
Planetary shielding was Star Wars, not Star Trek... Coruscant had a shield around the whole planet (which Thrawn thwarted with deception.)
Star Trek does not have planetary shields, though one planet did have a whole-planet cloak.
Actually the energy requirements for a full-planet shield would be sizable in the Star Trek universe. You would need tremendous antimatter storage, which would be dangerous. If the Federation President did decide to have Starfleet engineers make a shield for the whole planet it might be as dangerous as having cloaked vessels launch a planetcracker bomb.
Star Trek does not have planetary shields, though one planet did have a whole-planet cloak.
Actually the energy requirements for a full-planet shield would be sizable in the Star Trek universe. You would need tremendous antimatter storage, which would be dangerous. If the Federation President did decide to have Starfleet engineers make a shield for the whole planet it might be as dangerous as having cloaked vessels launch a planetcracker bomb.
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You're thinking of the bubble shield and not an elliptical deflector which is partial and can be directed at the threat, therefore consuming much less energy. This, of course, is speculation about the earth using this technology, but the elliptical deflector was present when the enterprise E series flew in between the Defiant and the Cube from the Borg. You can see the deflector being hit and the energy of the photon spilling over the sides in front of the ship. If it were a full bubble shield it would spill around behind the ship. I'm just assuming planets from Fed used similar tech.
How in a movie some one will be underwater having to unlock something with a key...they drop the key, go find it , try 46 wrong keys before finding the right one and freeing whatever what was behind the lock all while holding their breath... LIES I TELL YOU..LIES!
Yeah, and who has that many candles at their house? Or can afford to buy that many? Candles are expensive!