Recent content by Damoclies

Oh, by the way. You can buy a DIY kit to make an actual goddamn blaster rifle. That runs on AA batteries. http://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.htm#_blank Just think. You could rob someone, and what do you think the cops would do when they guy tells them that they were just robbed at...

My own imagination always cast the humans as some sort of biological mainframe. Yes, thermodynamics would make them useless as power sources, but you have billions of minds wired into your network, what is to stop you from using some of the idle run time? Every few decades you "reboot" the...

Oh, it's not "time travel" in the classic sense that we all use it, but it is, at least relevant to those inside the ship, the same as jumping forward in time. Just much, much slower. Where Doc Brown and Marty could do it in the time it takes to gun it to 88, our hypothetical black hole...

That, my friend, is what they make fog machines for.

A fun fact is that you actually CAN use something like a "sling shot" effect to really travel through time. The "deeper" you are into a gravity well, the slower time flows. This has been demonstrated by extremely precise clocks placed in orbit gaining millionths of seconds over exactly synced...

And also to the guy talking about Lightsabers. To both of you I say this: http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/Spyder_III_Pro_Arctic_Series-96-37.html to quote the description: Warning: Extremely dangerous is an understatement to 1W of laser power. At close range, this Class 4 beam will cause...

Grosse Point Blank did the same thing. Cusak hid behind a convenience store display to avoid an UZI's bullets. On the same note, every single time you see a car explode when shot by a gun is pretty much bullshit.

Too true. Granted, death by depressurization is... messy... but nobody would describe it as exploding. more of... rupturing. As you lower pressure the boiling point of liquids goes down. so pretty soon at low pressures your blood would boil in your veins. Total Recall actually did a fairly...

Yes, that's silly. Tell your friend that cooking off the bullets like he does in the last fight scene would render them so inaccurate that he would be lucky to hit the wall behind the guy he was aiming at, let alone four shots center mass.

Oh, I totally suspended disbelief on the magic red goo (mentally filed under "Technology Indistinguishable From Magic" folder) But the "black holes as magic gateways through time" and the "black hole resistant Romulan ship from the future" (not black hole PROOF, but tested to survive event...

Thank you, I had blocked that specific bit of asshattery from my memory.

BOILING water kills bacteria, but warm water can actually foster microorganism growth.

I will argue with your Terminator 2 inclusion by pointing out that "Liquid Metal" simply assumes that the technology to create a shape-reactive, circuit-free machine has not been invented yet. This thread isn't about instances of "Technology indistinguishable from magic," but instances where...

Ahhh, a topic near and dear to my heart. Just a couple that I have worked out over the years, from older or less Scifi specific movies. forgive me if I become progressively more incoherently angry as I list them. 1) "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." Bad because the way they describe making...