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The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by famousactress »

archangel_one wrote: post #103
famousactress wrote: post #64

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The Jurassic Park stuff wasn't done by a "guy", it was done by a team of folks, of which my mom was a part. (Specifically she helped pull together some of the spinning 3D xray skull stuff, wrote some c-shell scripts and was part of the sales team that sold the Sun systems to the movie). Also, the UI that you're probably talking about is this thing, and it's (sadly) real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

The most unrealistic thing about that wasn't the interface itself, it was the 10-year-old girl who says "This is Unix, I know this!"

No way. That little neckbeard girl was awesome, and I refuse to believe she doesn't exist somewhere.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by socksy »

g-garron wrote: post #91

It was totally bad to perform image leeching. The site http://www.williamrobertson.net/ Where the image are hosted, is now off-line, because of this. You can use imgur, minus, or even blogspot itself instead.

That site appears to be the author's own site...

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by thenonsequitur »

archangel_one wrote: post #150
jgarry wrote: post #149

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Google: real devices from star trek Could be that something in the near future as simple as relativity was 100 years ago will solve the hardest ones, namely transporter and ftl tech. Then again, it was funny as hell to see the flying car in Captain America.

Somehow I suspect that the transporter and warp drive won't fall that easily, but I admit you never know :) The tech level in Captain America was all over the place, which is deserving of a rant in itself, but suffice to say it was the most annoying part of that movie to me.

Given the amount of focus the physics world is putting on string theory right now, and given that hidden dimensions offer us the possibility of a mathematical basis for warp drive, I wouldn't be shocked if a theoretical blueprint for an actual warp drive is created sometime this century. Even if that happens though, I doubt it will become viable technology this century simply because the energy requirements to bend space-time (at a macro level) via a hidden dimension are literally astronomical. I'd wager that coming up with an energy source for warp technology is actually a harder problem than warp technology itself.

As for transporter technology, I don't even think we have the beginning of the science behind that, so I think that's even more distant from today's science than warp drive engineering.

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Post by rmc »

nhebb wrote: post #69
mibbitier wrote: post #20

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Thing is, if you're "good" at something, and a movie gets it wrong, it can ruin the movie for you. My pet hate is people playing the piano, but playing the wrong notes (While the soundtrack is playing something different).

Exactly. My pet peeve is military depictions in movies. I can't recall a movie that's gotten even the basics right. I may be nitpicking, but it does detract from the viewing experience.

As someone with no knowledge of military, I have no idea of the rookie mistakes made by hollywood. Care to give some examples?
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