Here's one... bad guy falls in a vat, lake, or other various form of corrosive liquid and just when you think he's gone, his hand comes up out of the water somehow the rest of his body hasn't been eaten away enough to allow him one last desperate attempt at freeing himself. I've seen that scene so many times in so many different movies... Terminator 2, Tomb Raider, Batman... the list goes on and on!
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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And I swear if I see another Superman Origin story again I'm gonna scream! He's from Kyrpton... the planet blew up... he was adopted by the Kents... How many different fricken times are they gonna tell that same story over and over again... same thing with Batman! I mean comon.,. is there anyone left out there that doesn't know that Batman's parents where shot while they were walking home from the movies?
I wonder if that could be called a variation on the "guy trying to get out of the water with dangerous animals, friends pull him out, but there is nothing from the waist down"?
Zombie_61
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Similarly, a character receives a deep cut or gash and it stops bleeding almost immediately.
p51
Sr Member
Oh GOD yes, this!
Wormholes are the easy way to write out a very long space trip somewhere. People think they're scientific fact, but really they're just theory (I know because I asked a NASA scientist about them not long ago).
At best wormholes are scientifically plausible. Unlike every other astronomic phenomenon (e.g. Black Holes) this concept didn't arise from something observable or even mathematic. The wormhole originated as a pure sci-fi plot device which folks try to backwards rationalize in physics.
tgreco
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Wormholes arose from several mathematical models. There are 3 that I know of. They were first described in 1916, and are based on Einstein's general relativity model.
While there's no direct evidence, everything about our current understanding of the universe says they can exist. So the wormhole existed well before they originated as a sci-fi plot device.
While there's no direct evidence, everything about our current understanding of the universe says they can exist. So the wormhole existed well before they originated as a sci-fi plot device.
Einstein also said that nothing can move faster than light and yet just recently, they discovered a particle that does. So yeah... He was brilliant, but wasn't always right either!
tgreco
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are you referring to the nutrino particles tested at CERN?
did you read the follow up article?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ht-particles/2012/03/16/gIQAqYLkGS_story.html
did you read the follow up article?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ht-particles/2012/03/16/gIQAqYLkGS_story.html
Those mathematical iterations are a FAR cry from the sci-fi device that allows for the translation of macroscopic objects through timespace. The spaceship-highway described in sci-fi films that appropriated the name, "wormhole," has absolutely no foundation in science. Period.
Quantum Tunneling is another bizarre phenomenon in physics. Unlike wormholes this is an observable occurrence with subatomic particles. It's more plausible to propose that a person can run into a wall and magically appear on the other side by the principle of quantum tunneling than it is to find a wormhole that can transport manned spacecraft.
I stand by my point.
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