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

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[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 43 points 7 hours ago

When something or somebody is injected into space, they always freeze in seconds. The logic is that "space is cold" but space is mostly a vacuum and vacuums don't have temperature. Vacuums insulate against conduction, so you're not going to freeze anytime soon. (You'll lose heat via radiation but that will take a while).

Not to mention the effect that zero pressure has on freezing/boiling points. If anything you'd be steaming as all the water on you evaporates!

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 22 points 6 hours ago

The evaporation cools the remaining stuff down. And steam is not visible. What we consider visible "steam" is fine liquid water dropplets suspended in air, as the saturated air cooling down demands for some of the water to become liquid.

So you can be steaming and freezing at the same time.

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago

It'll cool you down a bit but I've never seen any evidence of freezing. There's been experiments on animals and also people have survived vacuum exposure before. According to this animals will survive 90 seconds of vacuum. No mentions of turning into ice like the movies.

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[-] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

I'm not smart but I believe this human.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 7 hours ago

Electrical shocks applied to asystolic hearts to restart them is a classic.

The shock serves to stop fibrillation and to induce a rhythmic firing of the neves, that's why it's called defibrillation. Fibrillation is random firing of the nerves, asystole is no firing.

If I recall correctly my father told me you use an injection of adrenaline for asystolic hearts. Kind of like in Pulp Fiction. Though I think injecting directly into the heart isn't the preferred method anymore.

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[-] trslim@pawb.social 30 points 7 hours ago

I always think its funny how bullets never seem to penetrate anything in movies. Like, guy hiding behind a barrel? Nope, cant penetrate, even with a rifle. The newest Batman movie had me shaking my head as he shrugged off multiple rifle rounds to his armor.

Bullets are insanely dangerous and powerful. A .223 round can penetrate a solid brick wall pretty easily, and can destroy a cinderblock wall with some effort. Even if it doesnt penetrate, the amount of force applied is incredible. Plates designed to stop bullets have to be made in specific ways to make sure a bullet doesn't penetrate, but even with that plate, the sheer force of an impact can break bones.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Reminds me of a story I heard about a friend of a friend (so grain of salt and all) who worked as security at a nuke plant. They've got a well-stocked armory and he liked to borrow guns to shoot with in his back yard.

He had brought a .50 cal rifle home and was shooting cans or something with a hill as a backdrop.

Then the cops showed up. Turns out the bullets were going through his targets (assuming he was hitting them), then passing right through the hill and hitting a house on the other side whose occupants called the police because they thought someone was shooting at them from the hill.

Not sure if anything came of it afterwards, though I remember he wasn't allowed to borrow guns from that armory anymore.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

So many movies show people getting into gun battles indoors, and they will jump behind a couch or flip over a coffee table and take shelter from a hail of bullets, like that thin furniture is going to stop anything.

[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Just got reminded of the silencer gun battle scene in one of the John Wick movies. That was perhaps the most unrealistic thing I'd seen in those.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 hours ago

And notably, plates that do stop bullets often still only work once.

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[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 33 points 7 hours ago

As a counterpoint to the excellent examples posted here, I will cite an example of the opposite that I appreciate: In the Big Lebowski when the Dude goes to retrieve his stolen car and he asks the cop if they have any leads. The cop's reaction is both realistic and absolutely hilarious.

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 22 points 7 hours ago

I'll ask the boys down at the crime lab. They got us working in shifts.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 38 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There’s a trillion ones around unrealism, so I may as well pick something that would be more enjoyable if fixed.

Professional chatter. Let’s say a team of 30 scientists have been trying to communicate with a dimensional portal for 5 years. They wouldn’t be using speech like “Identity verified. Doctor Faris, you are clear to approach the anomaly.” Often, they’d have extremely abbreviated lingo for everything they need to express that happens on a daily basis, and otherwise are chatting about other stuff.

“Ok, approach endorsed. Bob wasn’t so chatty yesterday from what I heard, we’ll just aim for 2 logic points for this cycle.”
“Ryan was suggesting we spread the cycles. Bob has to sleep sometime.”
“Yeah, 90% of us would rather listen to Ryan than Mick, but Mick signs the checks.”

So the only actual order comes from some obscure phrase like “Approach endorsed”, which they may only say verbatim for safety reasons. The rest is just workplace banter about how best to accomplish their task, none of it being essential. EDIT: And, to make clear, in the above quote, Bob is the portal/anomaly.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 4 hours ago

As a parallel, I seem to recall that the surgery banter in MASH is actually pretty realistic.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 28 points 8 hours ago

The film Under Siege II has some of the best hacking scenes and dialog.

Even at a young age, the line "This is the guy that hacked into the Pentagon with a laptop" made me WTF because unless you're brute forcing encryption, the kind of computer you use to backdoor a system is irrelevant.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There's only one example I can think of where this isnt the case. I don't remember the whole story but I saw a YT video about this kid who got arrested for hacking Rockstar games. He ended up getting arrested and while in federal custody in some hotel room, he successfully hacked them again with a fucking amazon fire stick. After that he told the judge that we had no intention of stopping. Being under the age of 18, I don't think he really had any harsh consequences but good for him, that legend.

Edit: so he was 18 during the second hack.

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[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 36 points 9 hours ago

The ones that really get me are the way they show execs at companies. The "look, this character is so bad ass at being an exec!". They always come off as so unrealistic and cringy.

I've swam in that ocean, and that's not how that shit works. Engineering too. In reality, it's always a team of engineers that get something done... It is NEVER some rich smart guy inventing stuff on his or her own in their super fancy workshop.

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