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Post by ironhold on Nov 10, 2013 3:09:36 GMT
Don't forget the "The Storm Troopers had defective blasters" hypothesis.
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Post by Cybermortis on Nov 10, 2013 3:10:01 GMT
The scriptwriter is on their side.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Nov 10, 2013 6:06:19 GMT
The scriptwriter is on their side. LOL Well that is a far more plausible an excuse than the 'Force' was with them.
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Post by the light works on Nov 10, 2013 15:38:05 GMT
before someone asks how a society that produced Jar Jar Binks can develop their shield technology and weapons - remember that Jar Jar was a total idiot by THEIR standards.
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Post by kharnynb on Nov 12, 2013 7:55:13 GMT
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Post by kharnynb on Nov 12, 2013 8:06:21 GMT
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Post by Cybermortis on Nov 14, 2013 2:26:57 GMT
In the Avengers film Loki sets the magical portal thingie (technical term) on the roof of Stark Tower, as he needs the buildings Arc Reactor (Trademarked by Stark Industries) to start the process.
Small question, how the hell did he and Eric Selvig manage to get the machine in the building and plug it in power supply without alerting anyone? Loki it should be noted can't fly, and even if he could what are the odds of Tony deciding to put industrial quality power sockets on the roof? The one guy who *might* know how to bypass the security system (Hawkeye) had no idea where they were heading, and was beaten up by Black Widow long before the device was set up.
So, was Jarvis caught sleeping or did Tony decide that he didn't need a security system?
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Post by ironhold on Nov 14, 2013 3:15:29 GMT
Possibly both.
In the past, various writers have gone back and forth as to how attentive certain Marvel heroes are to real-world matters.
For example, some time back during the mid to late 1990s there was an Iron Man cartoon making the rounds. One multi-episode story arc kicked off when the Crimson Dynamo (IIRC) detonated a missile in its silo, spreading toxins across a wide region. When Stark examined the remains of CD's power armor, he discovered that it was essentially a knock-off of the Iron Man armor. It turns out that Stark never sought intellectual property protection for the Iron Man armor, as he feared that doing so would expose his identity as Iron Man. Someone ultimately leaked the schematics for the main Iron Man suit, leading to several heroes (I want to say SHIELD) and villains (including Whirlwind and IIRC Whiplash) using the Iron Man armor as the basis for their own designs.
Of course, because Stark never bothered to legally establish his IP rights, there was nothing he could legally do to stop this.
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Post by User Unavailable on Nov 19, 2013 18:55:34 GMT
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Post by the light works on Nov 20, 2013 2:28:36 GMT
That's funny, I don't care who ya is.
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Post by User Unavailable on Nov 20, 2013 3:55:55 GMT
That's funny, I don't care who ya is. Yup! I got that from of all people.... George Takei. He posts a lot of Star Wars/StarTrek comparison or crossover material on his Facebook fan page. He is a funny guy.
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Post by the light works on Nov 20, 2013 4:19:55 GMT
that he is.
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Post by User Unavailable on Nov 20, 2013 5:29:18 GMT
OVERSEAS VIEWERS OF NCIS:LOS ANGELES ***Potential SPOILER ALERT***
NCIS Los Angeles last episode of Season4
Arms dealers detonate a Nuke in the Mexican desert as a demonstration that the Soviet era nukes they are selling are fully functional.
No one but the government (satellites) notices the nuclear blast in the desert. There is no media coverage, no one even raises any concerns....
Really? No one notices a broad daylight nuclear blast in the Mexican desert?
It killed hikers in the area. It was a nuke that was setting on top of the ground. Thus a ground burst, it would have thrown tons and tons of debris into sky and created a HUGE mushroom cloud, somebody would have seen it. An airline pilot or residents of the desert or nearby towns or villages. Somebody would have investigated. Somebody would have raised a ruckus. Yet no one did.....
We need only to look at the secrecy in which the first atomic blast was carried out, the Trinity Test, to know that there is no way this nuclear blast on the show would have passed unnoticed and unmentioned, especially in this day and age.
People noticed the Trinity test, despite it detonating at 5:29 in morning in a very remote part of the New Mexico desert. It shattered windows 120 miles away. The blast wS heard over 200 miles away, the flash was seen over great distances. (Even by a transport pilot flying his normal route, miles away.
The Trinity mushroom cloud went up to 38,000 feet in a matter of minutes and was visible for miles.
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Post by wvengineer on Nov 21, 2013 0:43:42 GMT
As much as I love the movie, Pulp Fiction has quite a few head scratchers. ***Warning: may contain spoilers***
The section with Butch is the worst. Butch is a boxer who is paid by a mob boss to throw a fight. However he leaks out that he is supposed to throw that fights, so the odds skyrocket against him. Instead of throwing the fight, he wins it. Having bet heavy on himself, he wins BIG!
Knowing full well that the mob boss would want him dead for not throwing the fight, he and his girl friend are all backed up, ready to leave town. Instead of catching a red eye flight with the money they had, they get a cheap motel room for the night and catch a train late the next day. WTF??? Why wait to get out of town? Why not load up your car and start driving. You could be well past Vegas by the time the sun comes up.
The next day, Butch realizes that his girlfriend forgot to pack a watch that was a very important family heirloom. He goes to get it. He just walks into his apartment, no disguise, nothing, knowing that it is likely being watched by hit men of the mob boss. Once he get the watch, still nervous that there is a hit man in the apartment, what does he do? Takes time to fix breakfast. Pop tarts at that, something fairly loud so that the hit man in the bathroom knows full well that he is there.
Then you have The Wolf. How does he choose to to attract the attention of the police? drives all over the LA valley at insanely high speeds. He says that the hideout is 30 minutes away and that he'll be there in 10. He has to be driven at least twice the speed limit and running every light he hits. This is LA, how is he going to avoid attracting the attention of every cop along the way? Sounds like a great way to also attract every news chopper to follow the very high speed chase.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Nov 21, 2013 10:30:17 GMT
Thankyou for giving me the biggest laugh of my day so far!
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Nov 21, 2013 10:35:50 GMT
That's funny, I don't care who ya is. Yup! I got that from of all people.... George Takei. He posts a lot of Star Wars/StarTrek comparison or crossover material on his Facebook fan page. He is a funny guy. George Takei has a Facebook page!?! Cool! Think I'll look him up & share this with him.
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Post by Lokifan on Nov 27, 2013 5:33:04 GMT
OVERSEAS VIEWERS OF NCIS:LOS ANGELES ***Potential SPOILER ALERT*** NCIS Los Angeles last episode of Season4 Arms dealers detonate a Nuke in the Mexican desert as a demonstration that the Soviet era nukes they are selling are fully functional. No one but the government (satellites) notices the nuclear blast in the desert. There is no media coverage, no one even raises any concerns.... Really? No one notices a broad daylight nuclear blast in the Mexican desert? It killed hikers in the area. It was a nuke that was setting on top of the ground. Thus a ground burst, it would have thrown tons and tons of debris into sky and created a HUGE mushroom cloud, somebody would have seen it. An airline pilot or residents of the desert or nearby towns or villages. Somebody would have investigated. Somebody would have raised a ruckus. Yet no one did..... We need only to look at the secrecy in which the first atomic blast was carried out, the Trinity Test, to know that there is no way this nuclear blast on the show would have passed unnoticed and unmentioned, especially in this day and age. People noticed the Trinity test, despite it detonating at 5:29 in morning in a very remote part of the New Mexico desert. It shattered windows 120 miles away. The blast wS heard over 200 miles away, the flash was seen over great distances. (Even by a transport pilot flying his normal route, miles away. The Trinity mushroom cloud went up to 38,000 feet in a matter of minutes and was visible for miles. Having not seen the episode, all I can do is make some wild guesses-- What size bomb was it? Consider the W54 warhead of the "Davy Crockett": www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/davyc It weighed 51lbs, and had a yield of about 10 tons of TNT. The blast would be about 2-4 times the Oklahoma City blast. Here's a film of a test. The round detonated about 2800 meters from the launcher. Check out the cloud--it isn't much of a mushroom. Now, if they were talking kilo- or megaton weapons, that's something else. I could easily imagine a bomb going off a hundred miles from anywhere being unnoticed for a bit. The desert is big. There were rumors of "suitcase nukes" that the Soviets smuggled into enemy countries to be used as assassin tools. No one will admit to how small they made them.
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Post by the light works on Nov 27, 2013 5:37:45 GMT
in some Sci-Fi book (probably more than one by now): "Nuclear hand grenades - for soldiers with a strong throwing arm."
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Post by User Unavailable on Nov 27, 2013 6:38:42 GMT
I don't recall the yield of the nukes, but they were warheads from decommissioned missiles, not small "battlefield" nukes or suitcase nukes. They required trucks for transport.
The one that went bang in the desert was taller and much fatter than the hiker who walked up on it and noticed it had 3 minutes left on the timer.
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Post by Lokifan on Nov 27, 2013 6:58:02 GMT
Hoo boy.
Hiding a megaton range H-bomb blast?
I'm with you--not going to happen. I don't think you could get far enough into the desert so it wouldn't be noticed.
Heck, even if you went subterranean (like in "Broken Arrow"), every geologist from here to China would pick it up on their seismographs--easy.
I know there are areas of Mexico that are relatively uninhabited, but I'd bet the population density would be smaller up north--like above the Acrtic Circle, maybe.
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