Not surprised. This thread is already 1,600 entires long. We could probably just start it over and few would notice.

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Well, if you say so.

...So, you ever notice how they always call a dolphin a fish?

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

...And, after a period of intense scrutiny, I have noticed the following things that have happened in more than one film...

Every teacher thinks you have never before heard that Egyptians removed the brain.
If one more person in a movie says that like it's a new fact, I'll...

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All important burial tombs and hidden treasure locations in movies were designed by the incarnation of Rube Goldberg and built using building methods lost and can not be reproduced by modern means.

Lets not talk about the tribes that have guarded these places since time immortal without finding something better to do.

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A related cliche:
I'm aware that there were still one or two contacts with lost tribes in the 1960's, but if we assume that all movies and TV shows exist in the same world, there must be thousands still today, all who know lots of medicines we have no idea about.

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"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Delvo asked:

How long DOES it take for a helicopter to get its blades up to speed in an emergency? I've watched launches up close, but they weren't emergencies, and the engine in each case seemed to be idling at a constant speed while the pilot went through a pre-flight checklist, then cranked up to lifting speed in the last few seconds after he put down the clipboard.

I asked your question to a friend of mine who is an Army helicopter pilot. He said it depends on the helicopter. For example, a small turbine helicopter like a Bell Jet Ranger uses a battery to start the turboshaft engine. You can take off as soon as you get 100% power from the engine and the rotor spun up to full speed. However, that can take several minutes and there's no way to hurry things.

On the Chinooks that he flies, it typically takes about 25 minutes from the beginning of the prestart sequence until liftoff. If all of the switches were prepositioned, he said you might be able to cut that down to 10 minutes. To start a Chinook, you first have to start the auxillary power unit (APU), then use that to start two large turboshaft engines, amd then spin up two very large sets of rotor blades. All of that takes time.

Therefore the roughly one second spin-up of the Petercopter is most likely a little too fast?





It was bound to happen, a technical error in a Family Guy episode!

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Ironic, given the way they usually draw out one-second gags into five minutes.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I've always liked to think those "draw outs" were written by this person:

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Every imaginary city a hero lives in has a zoo, a world class university, a museum of natural history, a museum of art, a government lab, an observatory, a haunted house, a nearby abandoned mine, a harbor where a ship carrying treasure sank and whatever else the otherwise cliched plots may require. I can believe one city like that, and would want to live there, but so many?

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Movies-on-TV peeve:
When the final credits roll (if at all), invariably the ones of interest are suddenly fast-forwarded beyond comprehension, while the uninteresting rate 30-second screenshots.

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Legally, they have to show them. Apparently, there's no law about how comprehensible they have to be, which I think there should be; isn't that the point of the law in the first place?

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

And now, they put the credits at the bottom of the screen and start another show in the top half, which stinks if it's a Disney movie with great music being played durring the credits!

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

As does Springfield, Dimmsdale, Amity Park, Retroville, and every other "small town" setting.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Some advice:
If a superhero takes up residence in your town, move!
If you are a scientist in a comic book studing something very important and you don't have superpowers, retire!

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

They don't know they're in comic books, that's why they act out all the cliches.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I drew a panel where the hero and villian are fighting at KSC, and this hapless NASA guy is ducking behind a table thinking
"When Richards asked me to go up in that spaceship- why did I have to say NO?"

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

And never be the friend of the amateur detective in the small, quiet town. Unless you want to have your murder solved.

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