The Boys nailed that episode where the two superheroes enter an out of control plane and discuss how to change its trajectory mid air.
The Plumber Problem
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#72This is a much larger issue than just a media related one. There's a friend I've had for years. He's a physicist. I always ask him questions about physics. I've often referred to him as the smartest guy I know. I have another friend, also a physicist. Less accomplished, but just as smart. Friend 2 hates Friend 1. Calls him an idiot. I generally dismissed it as arrogance or jealously. Then, a few years ago, Friend 1 t…
This is a really common trap that smart people fall into, thinking that just because you know everything about one field, your huge brain must be able to quickly understand just about anything.
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#73Every computer movie with a hacker ever:
hacker opens an excel spreadsheet and types in a bunch of gibberish
"I'm in the mainframe."
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the actual combat. It's hard to take a swordfight seriously when both parties seem preoccupied with swinging at their opponents sword.
As a former fencer, this is what a lot of HEMA bouts look like to me
Also as a former fencer, I've realized that fencing has so little to do with most "blade" warfare, whether in real life or in the movies. Epee might be the closest to reality for parts of Europe with duels etc, but I think all three forms diverged pretty quickly since the death of an opponent kind of kills the sport.
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#75In the Matrix humanity is enslaved to use them as an energy source. But the 2nd law of thermodynamics requires that any energy harvested would be, by definition, less than the energy of the food required to sustain their bodies. Therefore the plot makes no sense, because they should just shovel the food directly into the computer and skip the humans.
Modern industrial farming "wastes" tons of energy to get their desired outputs. It's possible that the machines were advanced at some things but something that human bodies produced was something they couldn't directly synthesize.
Right but that still means they need to pick literally any other human output besides “energy”. At the very least it would have to be some very specific form of energy that humans emit.
Just like it would make no sense to explain the purpose of animal agriculture in human society as “extracting the animals’ energy”. Like you said, it’s the different form of energy (plus nutrients) that they can provide, not energy simpliciter.
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#76Going along with narrative requires suspension of disbelief. However, when you see obvious factual errors, disbelief comes knocking again as you begin questioning everything.
One of the reasons I like fantasy is the plot is set in a universe with different physics and so much of my knowledge of this world can be set aside. Even then though I often wonder how do they feed those large cities with only wilderness between them (most are set on navigable water, even though it is just luck at least the city location doesn't violate possibility, but the lack of explanation of how they get food)…
My problem with fantasy is that the physics of the universe is not well presented. For the entire duration, I watch with the premise that anything and everything is possible until shown to be otherwise. It's probably different if the source material was read and the viewer already has that context. There's probably some science-fantasy that fits your description which I would enjoy more than the more typical magical/mystical sorts.
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#77Every computer movie with a hacker ever: hacker opens an excel spreadsheet and types in a bunch of gibberish "I'm in the mainframe."
Oh, for the days when you could run a murderous android with a 6502!
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#78I gave it a cold, I gave it a virus, a computer virus. (Independance Day, 1996)
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#79In the Matrix humanity is enslaved to use them as an energy source. But the 2nd law of thermodynamics requires that any energy harvested would be, by definition, less than the energy of the food required to sustain their bodies. Therefore the plot makes no sense, because they should just shovel the food directly into the computer and skip the humans.
We use cows for the same purpose - we eat them instead of shoveling grass straight into our mouths, even though in some strict sense the grass contains more caloric energy.
Or, we eat vegetables even though the energy in them is less than all the solar energy that falls on them.
But of course the calories in grass and sunlight aren't accessible to us. It's not impossible to imagine some parallel situation where human biology - perhaps genetically modified - is useful to transform some source of energy into a more usable form.
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#80In the movie 300, after Leonidas and the 300 decide to march North towards Thermopylae. The valley & mountains in the background are REALLY from Sparta, Grecet. The producers made had sent crews to take enough photos and videos of the valleygt to accurately portrait the landscape. It was eerie to watch the movie (I grew up in Sparta) and see the mountains all around as they really are. BUT (big but here) they march S…
Honestly, my brain turned off the moment I remembered that Spartains were known for their heavy armor and not for dressing up like Chippendales dancers / male strippers.