TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

The physics of this is just so mindbogglingly stupid that I don't think there is an explanation that can possibly satisfy and the whiny brats are just too whiny.

it's already been explained:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dampening_field
you got to know your sci-fi!! 

Can some form of EMP pulse be made permament, remove the pulse?

[CountDeMoney]

Can some form of EMP pulse be made permament, remove the pulse?

You can't unmelt circuitry.

[garbon]

Dark Angel

[viper37]

Can some form of EMP pulse be made permament, remove the pulse?

You can't unmelt circuitry.

What I mean is: something that would create a persistent effect over a wide area.  The EMP pulse melts the circuitry, but you can rebuild it elsewhere and replace the parts.

So, in theory, can a "dampening field" à la Star Trek can be created?

[Syt]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity? 

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/King_of_Queens

Carrie: What movie do you want to see?
Kelly Palmer: Something brainless. What's that thriller where the Earth starts to lose its gravitational pull?
Carrie: Oh, yeah..."Floaters".

[Eddie Teach]

Syt has just outed himself as a King of Queens viewer. 

[11B4V]

Prometheus....jury's still out. There's something there. I need to check out the deleted scenes.

[Josquius]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the directors cut. They will probally have some sort of development with the captain lady which makes the "Oh, btw, thats my dad" scene less ham fisted and meh.

I liked Prometheus, it wasn't the best thing ever but it was pretty OK. Just like Avatar however it is very popular to hate on it.

[Razgovory]

Can some form of EMP pulse be made permament, remove the pulse?

You can't unmelt circuitry.

What I mean is: something that would create a persistent effect over a wide area.  The EMP pulse melts the circuitry, but you can rebuild it elsewhere and replace the parts.

So, in theory, can a "dampening field" à la Star Trek can be created?

Yeah, just set off a nuclear bomb every thirty minutes.  I imagine that take away the atmosphere and bombard the earth with gamma rays that would also keep unshielded circuitry from working.  Of course that would make a very short show.  You can protect electrical equipment from these kind things though.  It's not really that hard. All it would require is some chicken wire and tin foil.

[mongers]

I watch 'The Final Countdown', excellent carrier aircraft photography, looked like an advertising promo for Grumman Aerospace; F14s and AGM-54, Money must love this film. 

[CountDeMoney]

I watch 'The Final Countdown', excellent carrier aircraft photography, looked like an advertising promo for Grumman Aerospace; F14s and AGM-54, Money must love this film.

I do. Saw it in theaters when it was first out. Total fapping material for the lost art of mission-specific naval aviation.  Intruders. 
And splashing Zeros don't hurt, neither.

One of Martin Sheen's more obnoxious characters, though.

[Razgovory]

It's not a bad movie.  I like all the real airplanes being used which would now be replaced with CGI.

[mongers]

I watch 'The Final Countdown', excellent carrier aircraft photography, looked like an advertising promo for Grumman Aerospace; F14s and AGM-54, Money must love this film.

I do. Saw it in theaters when it was first out. Total fapping material for the lost art of mission-specific naval aviation.  Intruders. 
And splashing Zeros don't hurt, neither.

One of Martin Sheen's more obnoxious characters, though.

Yeah I saw it in the cinema when first released.

In addition to the F-14s and A-6s, lots of A-7s, Hawkeyes, even an F-8 carrier launch.
The SH-3s even photographed well, pity there was not Vigilantes on board, though there was one on the flight-line at Pearl Harbor.

[garbon]

One Day

aka emotional torture

[Ideologue]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity? 

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/King_of_Queens

Carrie: What movie do you want to see?
Kelly Palmer: Something brainless. What's that thriller where the Earth starts to lose its gravitational pull?
Carrie: Oh, yeah..."Floaters".

You'd watch it.  Would the Earth unbind itself or is it sufficiently mechanically connected?  I mean, it doesn't matter, since the remaining pressure from the sun's core would cause it to immediately begin to expand, but the science is important to get right so we correctly show how people die in the absence of gravity.  It's called "Constant."  GIVE ME MY CHECK.