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submitted 22 hours ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 44 points 20 hours ago

So many.

Normal people get slammed into a wall by monster, explosion or whatever, stand up and walk away. Buddy, you don't walk that off. People die or need months of recovery from less.

Don't get me started on the speed force. You do some napkin math and see the Flash is taking on a 1000G running in circles close to mach 2 without blinking and then gets knocked unconscious with a single punch in the next scene. Flash is not the only one of course.

And the lone inventor developing a fully conscious AI in some mountain cabin on an old laptop. It was clear that would never work and reality now shown us AI companies looking into nuclear powered data centers to speed up things.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 91 points 22 hours ago

This happens with fire sprinklers a lot, one sprinkler goes off, and triggers the rest of the floor, or sometimes even building.

That's not how it works. Each sprinkler has it's own trigger mechanism, the glass bulb, and cannot trigger another sprinkler.

There are systems where this happens, but the sprinkler heads look very different, and you won't find them in an office building.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 42 points 21 hours ago

Isn’t the water in sprinkler systems a stagnant mess too?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 47 points 20 hours ago

Yes. A combination of rust, thread cutting oil, and water that has been in the pipes often since the system was filled. It smells, it will stain anything it touches, and it's a smell that's difficult to remove.

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[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 50 points 20 hours ago

Person gets shot and they have to dig the bullet out to save them.

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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 60 points 21 hours ago

GI Joe movie where they blow up a sheet of ice on the ocean to make it sink down and destroy the base below.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

It was probably ice made from heavy water.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago

I had to read that 2-3 times before I could comprehend that the base was not on top of ice and falling through it.

Yeah...

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[-] forrgott@lemm.ee 66 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In movies when there's a huge explosion in space, there's always this ring that comes out from the explosion. No!

In space the blast wave would be spherical: it only looks like a 2d ring when observed from a telescope many many light years away, since the telescope can only pick up the outside edge of the blast.

Edit: fixed auto-incorrect

[-] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 57 points 21 hours ago

I remember very vividly when they redid the special effects in the original Star Wars trilogy and added this dumbass ring coming out of the Death Star explosion. It completely broke immersion for me because I was like “wtf is that supposed to be?”

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[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 54 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Gotta be the "high noon duel" in western movies. That didn't happen much in the real wild west.

Citizens shooting at gangs during bank robberies? Yup.
Shootout at The OK Corral? Yup.
Lynching of accused criminals before a judge could come to town? Oh hell yes.

But that trope of lawman/outlaw facing off in the middle of the street for a prearranged gun duel just didn't really happen.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 49 points 22 hours ago
[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 20 hours ago

You can't just leave a tvtropes link without a warning! Some never make it back.

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[-] Naich@lemmings.world 24 points 20 hours ago

Keanu Reeves with a sword, standing in the middle of a pile of bodies. Bad guy enters the room carrying a gun. Bad guy sees him and rather than shooting him from a safe distance, chooses to run towards him, still holding the gun out in front of him, shouting at him rather than shooting at him.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 34 points 19 hours ago

The longer the bullet travels, the more bullet time you give him

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 17 hours ago

To be fair, in that world body armor seems to be both commonplace and extremely effective.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 33 points 21 hours ago

Pouring gas over everything and lighting it by tossing a lit cigarette into the puddle. It does not work that way.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

So you do it with an unlit cigarette? takes notes for doomed insurance fraud attempt

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 10 points 16 hours ago

That one seems intentional. Teaching idiots the wrong way to arson.

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[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago

Just be at work and look around yourself. Many of your colleagues got their jobs without knowing what's actually going on. Doesn't matter what kind of job they have.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

To be fair the vast majority of what you need to know to do the job is learned on the job. Maybe not for the people who program CERN, but for the majority of jobs this is true.

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