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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] Mercuri@lemmy.world 24 points 4 hours ago

Space Flight.

I walked in on my roommate watching "Don't Look Up" right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.

We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It's not some crazy mystery. This isn't Gravity where they add a window that doesn't exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It's not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.

A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That's the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn't necessary for good story telling.

[-] Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

You typing "TWR ratio".

Go KYS yourself!!

/s 😂

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[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 65 points 7 hours ago

When someone’s falling hundreds of feet and when they’re inches from the ground a super hero swoops in from the side to grab them.

Sure, they didn’t hit the ground but not only did you catching them slow down their vertical velocity just as fast as the ground would have, now you’ve accelerated them horizontally so fast that they’re now twice as dead as they would’ve been otherwise

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My head canon, at least with Superman, is his powers. He doesn't have multiple unrelated powers, but only 1 main one. Instinctive momentum control.

  • Flying - Momentum control

  • Bullet proof - Momentum stopped at the point of contact.

  • Heat beams - Changing the momentum of particles he's focused on.

  • Holding a plane by a thin aluminium sheet - Adjusting the momentum of the plane directly.

  • No sonic booms, or massive wind - momentum nulling on the nearby air.

In this case, catching a falling person safely makes complete sense. He just nullifies their momentum before they hit.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I guess you could explain it like that, but I'd really prefer it if they just started writing Superman stories with a more realistic depiction of the world around Superman in mind. It would add more drama since, while Superman himself is invulnerable, the rest of the world isn't, so Supes should have to be extremely careful with how he uses his powers if he's actually going to save anyone.

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[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Similarly- when a person is hanging off a building or cliff by one arm, and holding something heavy or another person with the other. It requires an INSANE amount of strength to hold that position, let alone actually haul them back up.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 5 hours ago

Every once in a while, it's subverted. IIRC, that's how Gwen dies in Spiderman comics.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

I appreciated The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for that reason. Gwen was falling so fast that when she was caught I honestly thought her neck snapped and I didn’t notice her skull hitting the floor

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[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago

We just watched "The Trap" last night. There was a major pop concert that ended in time for family dinner time during daylight. In the concert, they were depicted having time to make multiple trips to the merch tables and concessions, and in one of those trips, they talked like it was an intermission to change the stage set between songs.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago

Kingsman

Training scene where they shove a shower hose down a toilet and use it to breathe...

There would be no air (or even sewer gas) to breath in that case. Toilets work by raising the water level in the bowl above the water level in the S-bend/siphon. Since the room was full of water, those toilets would have been flushing constantly, and the whole pipe would be full of water.

Better(ish) solution. Use the body bags that they each had to fill out and place in their trunk/locker to capture an air bubble. That would at least give you some time to attack the door, or figure out how to drain the room.

[-] kholby@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Maybe the constantly flushing toilet would drain the room.

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[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 24 points 6 hours ago

There’s a scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home where Tom Holland is fighting the Green Goblin. Goblin grabs Spidey, jumps with him, and then they both smash through the 23rd or so floor of the apartment building they’re in and they land on the floor below.

Sure, they’re both super strong but neither of them used their strength to push through the floor. They just jumped and reached no more than like a foot off the floor, implying that gravity pulled them both through the floor. Okay, so the floor was built poorly, but then why did falling 10+ feet from the 23rd floor to the 22nd floor not make them smash through the 22nd floor?

That movie’s a lot of a fun but that scene makes me upset lol

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 31 points 7 hours ago

Sprinklers react to heat, not smoke and they don't all go off at once. Also the water that comes out is brown from rust, not clear.

War bows are so heavy that you can barely hold it for the moment it takes to aim. There's no way you're holding it for minutes before told to release.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Fire sprinklers have two requirements: to be able to turn on immediately if they're ever needed, and to dispense something capable of extinguishing a fire. In order to accomplish this, the pipes that feed them are constantly, 24/7, full of water, providing constant pressure on the sprinkler head to be ready to feed it with water in case it ever needs to go off. These water pipes are generally not used for anything else, so the water does not tend to circulate. In fact, there's usually a sensor in them that detects if the water is flowing (and thus if any sprinklers have been triggered, providing somewhere for it to go) and activates the building's fire alarm. When a fire sprinkler goes off, the water that comes out has been sitting in that pipe (an iron pipe if you're lucky, a lead pipe if you're not) basically since the building was built.

That stuff is NAS-T.

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

When replacing thermostat valves or radiators in buildings with steel-pipe radiator lines, the water that comes out is often as black as ink. It’s surprising how dark it can get.

And for anyone wondering why steel is used, yes, it does rust, but only while there’s air in the water. As the pipes start rusting, that air gets used up, and the rusting stops. Same applies to sprinkler lines. Steel pipes in radiator lines can easily last the building’s lifetime, whereas copper pipes for drinking water usually need replacement every 30 years or so.

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Copper pipes only need replacing that often if a) you cheaped out on construction and used the thinnest kind (M-type, which isn't even legal in some states), and b) you had some pressure issue along the way that left the pipes only partially full of water for a time.

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