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Post by GTCGreg on Dec 4, 2022 14:16:38 GMT
Sounds like a real “must see“ movie.
Bottom line, don’t mess with Santa.
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Post by wvengineer on Dec 5, 2022 13:55:04 GMT
As to #1, using a candy cane as a weapon, I would say plausible. As a kid, I got into a thing with some friends to lick candy canes until you got a sharp point. At one point, one of us stabbed themselves with said candy cane and managed to do deep enough to draw blood. Yeah, kids being young and stupid. You can get large candy cane sticks. I get some as treat for my horses. They love candy canes. So can one be sharpened? Yes. Could it be used as a weapon, Maybe. I would think it wold be best into soft tissue. However, I would think most likely it would be a one time use weapon. The force of stabbing someone with it would likely shatter it. If you hit bone, i wold expect it to break. So I don't know what would break first, the target or the candy cane.
Of course, factor in "Santa magic" and anything is possible.
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Post by the light works on Dec 5, 2022 14:49:45 GMT
yep, santa magic, here we come.
as for the attic ladder, they are actually pretty fragile and do tend to fail catastrophically when they fail. the common thread in that and the bowling ball question is whether the puncture will actually do significant harm.
as for the candy cane, yes, hard but brittle.
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Post by ironhold on Mar 2, 2024 17:27:12 GMT
Madame Web:
There's a scene where the characters use the defibrillator in an ambulance to jolt a villain who is on top of it. In the film, they press the parts that shock people against the metal roof and zap him hard... only for the vehicle itself to die not long after.
So could something like that work as an act of desperation, and would it essentially render the vehicle inoperable?
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Post by GTCGreg on Mar 2, 2024 20:10:10 GMT
Madame Web: There's a scene where the characters use the defibrillator in an ambulance to jolt a villain who is on top of it. In the film, they press the parts that shock people against the metal roof and zap him hard... only for the vehicle itself to die not long after. So could something like that work as an act of desperation, and would it essentially render the vehicle inoperable? It is possible to disable a vehicle if you zapped it in just the right place, but someone on the metal roof would not feel anything. |
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Post by the light works on Mar 3, 2024 3:56:12 GMT
I'm going to say no, just like birds can sit on a power line and not get shocked. a conductive roof will just short from pad to pad.
also, nobody in the field uses a manual defibrillator any more. everybody uses an AED or portable monitor with adhesive defib pads
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Post by ironhold on Mar 3, 2024 22:12:00 GMT
I'm going to say no, just like birds can sit on a power line and not get shocked. a conductive roof will just short from pad to pad. also, nobody in the field uses a manual defibrillator any more. everybody uses an AED or portable monitor with adhesive defib pads The film is set in 2004, so perhaps they were using the older equipment still. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Mar 4, 2024 5:49:41 GMT
I'm going to say no, just like birds can sit on a power line and not get shocked. a conductive roof will just short from pad to pad. also, nobody in the field uses a manual defibrillator any more. everybody uses an AED or portable monitor with adhesive defib pads The film is set in 2004, so perhaps they were using the older equipment still. Even if the defib did trigger, it's still not going to go through the roof. |
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Post by the light works on Mar 4, 2024 14:11:46 GMT
The film is set in 2004, so perhaps they were using the older equipment still. Even if the defib did trigger, it's still not going to go through the roof. I haven't been able to find exact data, but it looks like the transition from manual defibrillators to AED began in 2003. however, AEDs aren't as dramatic as manuals, so Hollywood will never give up the manuals. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Mar 4, 2024 14:53:28 GMT
Even if the defib did trigger, it's still not going to go through the roof. I haven't been able to find exact data, but it looks like the transition from manual defibrillators to AED began in 2003. however, AEDs aren't as dramatic as manuals, so Hollywood will never give up the manuals. Just like in Hollywood, every car that gets in a wreck explodes. |
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Post by ironhold on Mar 27, 2024 20:37:37 GMT
So I finally saw "The Poseidon Adventure".
I noticed that some of the women were trying to escape while still wearing very high heels, including attempting to climb a ladder.
Would the design of the heels have made them better for the task by allowing them to better grip the rungs, or would it have been better for the ladies to have gone barefoot or just wrapped their feet in fabric?
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Post by GTCGreg on Mar 27, 2024 21:15:54 GMT
So I finally saw "The Poseidon Adventure". I noticed that some of the women were trying to escape while still wearing very high heels, including attempting to climb a ladder. Would the design of the heels have made them better for the task by allowing them to better grip the rungs, or would it have been better for the ladies to have gone barefoot or just wrapped their feet in fabric? The first thing I do whenever I’m trying to climb a ladder is take off my high heels |
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Post by the light works on Mar 28, 2024 4:20:35 GMT
So I finally saw "The Poseidon Adventure". I noticed that some of the women were trying to escape while still wearing very high heels, including attempting to climb a ladder. Would the design of the heels have made them better for the task by allowing them to better grip the rungs, or would it have been better for the ladies to have gone barefoot or just wrapped their feet in fabric? there is probably room for a major study on that. the biggest "pain" involved in climbing ladders is usually related to how narrow the rung is, compared to the ground. construction boots often have a steel shank under the arch of the foot, which spreads the pressure of the rungs. so depending on the design of the high heels, they might provide better support on the ladder, as for the heels hooking onto the rungs, it would be a positive engagement, rather than depending on friction. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Mar 28, 2024 4:33:05 GMT
So I finally saw "The Poseidon Adventure". I noticed that some of the women were trying to escape while still wearing very high heels, including attempting to climb a ladder. Would the design of the heels have made them better for the task by allowing them to better grip the rungs, or would it have been better for the ladies to have gone barefoot or just wrapped their feet in fabric? there is probably room for a major study on that. the biggest "pain" involved in climbing ladders is usually related to how narrow the rung is, compared to the ground. construction boots often have a steel shank under the arch of the foot, which spreads the pressure of the rungs. so depending on the design of the high heels, they might provide better support on the ladder, as for the heels hooking onto the rungs, it would be a positive engagement, rather than depending on friction. You mean for FORTY years I've been climbing ladders wrong? |
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Post by the light works on Mar 28, 2024 13:14:04 GMT
there is probably room for a major study on that. the biggest "pain" involved in climbing ladders is usually related to how narrow the rung is, compared to the ground. construction boots often have a steel shank under the arch of the foot, which spreads the pressure of the rungs. so depending on the design of the high heels, they might provide better support on the ladder, as for the heels hooking onto the rungs, it would be a positive engagement, rather than depending on friction. You mean for FORTY years I've been climbing ladders wrong? not really. unless you've been taking your shoes off and climbing them barefoot, or climbing them in slick soled shoes. keep in mind, except for ironworkers, most construction trades have some kind of a heel on their shoes. I'm told Ironworkers prefer a flat sole, because of the chance of a heel either snagging on an edge or slipping off a ledge and throwing them off balance. |
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Post by ironhold on Jun 26, 2024 17:53:35 GMT
"Adios, Sabata"
1. A running gag in the movie involves Sabata actually having a cigar in the final port (?) of the massive stripper clip for his rifle, the idea being that Sabata is such a good shot he rarely needs all of the bullets to get the job done and so saves a cigar to smoke in victory. But what sort of caliber would we be looking at for him to be able to do that, and what would happen if he did indeed lose track of his ammo?
2. Sabata carries a saddle bag full of glass vials packed in extra padding. It's not explained what these are, but he and another character are repeatedly shown throwing them like grenades, suggesting nitroglycerin or a similar substance. Could someone actually do this in real life, and if so how effective would it be?
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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 26, 2024 21:43:07 GMT
"Adios, Sabata" 1. A running gag in the movie involves Sabata actually having a cigar in the final port (?) of the massive stripper clip for his rifle, the idea being that Sabata is such a good shot he rarely needs all of the bullets to get the job done and so saves a cigar to smoke in victory. But what sort of caliber would we be looking at for him to be able to do that, and what would happen if he did indeed lose track of his ammo? 2. Sabata carries a saddle bag full of glass vials packed in extra padding. It's not explained what these are, but he and another character are repeatedly shown throwing them like grenades, suggesting nitroglycerin or a similar substance. Could someone actually do this in real life, and if so how effective would it be? Never saw the movie (not a western fan) and don’t know anything about this Sabata character, but carrying around a bag of nitroglycerin does not put him on the high end of the intelligence scale |
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Post by the light works on Jun 26, 2024 23:40:54 GMT
"Adios, Sabata" 1. A running gag in the movie involves Sabata actually having a cigar in the final port (?) of the massive stripper clip for his rifle, the idea being that Sabata is such a good shot he rarely needs all of the bullets to get the job done and so saves a cigar to smoke in victory. But what sort of caliber would we be looking at for him to be able to do that, and what would happen if he did indeed lose track of his ammo? 2. Sabata carries a saddle bag full of glass vials packed in extra padding. It's not explained what these are, but he and another character are repeatedly shown throwing them like grenades, suggesting nitroglycerin or a similar substance. Could someone actually do this in real life, and if so how effective would it be? it looks like cigars can be had as small or smaller than 5mm, which the rifles that used stripper clips tended to be in the 5- 8mm range. however, a stripper clip typically holds cartridges by the rim, and cigars don't have a rim. if it did go in the magazine, and the rifle tried to chamber it, the bolt would probably rip it open. if not, it would stuff it into the chamber, and then he'd have to use a cleaning rod to get it back out. also, it would have to be a pretty short cigar to match the wider part of the cartridge casing. as for the glass vials - pretty much anything sensitive enough to shock to explode on impact, would not be a good idea to carry around. not sure what kind of air sensitive compounds you could carry. |
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Post by ironhold on Jun 27, 2024 13:56:30 GMT
"Adios, Sabata" 1. A running gag in the movie involves Sabata actually having a cigar in the final port (?) of the massive stripper clip for his rifle, the idea being that Sabata is such a good shot he rarely needs all of the bullets to get the job done and so saves a cigar to smoke in victory. But what sort of caliber would we be looking at for him to be able to do that, and what would happen if he did indeed lose track of his ammo? 2. Sabata carries a saddle bag full of glass vials packed in extra padding. It's not explained what these are, but he and another character are repeatedly shown throwing them like grenades, suggesting nitroglycerin or a similar substance. Could someone actually do this in real life, and if so how effective would it be? Never saw the movie (not a western fan) and don’t know anything about this Sabata character, but carrying around a bag of nitroglycerin does not put him on the high end of the intelligence scale As part of the digital cable package we're getting from Charter-Spectrum, we have a series of movie channels that we get for free. I think it was HD Net that decided to make a marathon of all three of the official Sabata movies, and I caught the second one because the listings said it had Yul Brynner in it. |
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Post by ironhold on Jul 16, 2024 1:26:00 GMT
Rush Hour 3 -
Jackie Chan and Chris Rock "parachute" off of the Eiffel Tower by grabbing a very large flag, with each man taking two corners in order to hold it in an arc shape while they dive.
I question if this would work, both due to the physics involved and the fact that it would rely on their grip strength.
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