Re: Movie Clichés That Get On Your Nerves
As a metrologist, I find the convenience of movie quantities very amusing.
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This space station will self-destruct in one minute.
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You have exactly 24 hours to find a cure for...
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But that's one thousand light years away, we can't possibly get there in time.
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Well they're a million times more advanced than we are.
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By the time Altair 4 explodes you must be 100 million miles from here.
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The Intergalactic Empire consists of one billion star systems.
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Not even an interdimensional force field one trillion times stronger would protect us.
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Why, imagine such forces raised to the power of infinity!
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