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ArchitRen
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Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: |
 
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WLZ - you can't expect the camera crew to be unaffected by enemy fire.  I've always wondered how silly professional actors feel when they shoot those parts! "ok. on cue: Shake!"
Anyone who is integral to the plot, beloved by the audience or for the sake of the story needs to switch sides or be brought back to life may have been cloned and of course uploaded with all of the original's memories at any given point in order to believably fool the protagonists. |
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 Twopop 
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Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone who isn't wearing a spacesuit .. floats away - intact. |
Good thing I'm not producing sci-fi movies. 
I have been informed that a person would not explode (as in Outland) but rather would asphyxiate from the lack of breathable air and suffer from ebullism.
Thanks to Chandler for the explanation & link about the sci-fi movie Sunshine.
Spoiler: | And they got it right in Battlestar Galactica when Cally got sent out of the airlock to a cold death in space. |
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ArchitRen
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That's right Twopop, I was thinking of that accurate example myself.
Oh and let's not forget, that any scientific experiment may result in someone switching places with their parallel universe version, who may or may not be evil or have a different personality. But in the end the exact conditions of the original experiment will inevitably be replicated in order for the switch-back to occur. |
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When the self-destruct is activated, random stuff will start falling off walls and down shafts.
Spoiler: | After having recently seen the new "The Andromeda Strain", this still holds true |
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Gert
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When the ship is hit from the outside, the exposed internal pipes of the ship's steam powered systems will automatically rupture, filling the cabin/hallway/pod with drama-inducing fog.
(Yeah, from what I've heard, asphyxiation seems to be the generally hypothesized result of an 'expelled into space' event.) |
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weaponlordzero
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People will always walk towards you in a hallway. No one ever comes from behind you and walks past you.
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 mellowman
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No matter what the laws of physics tell us time travel is possible and in so many ways it is a wonder we aren't meeting people form the future/past/alternate universes/different planes of existence all the time.
No matter what the laws of physics tell us it is possible to build a handheld laser/phaser/ray gun.
In fact, no matter what the laws of physics tell us, the laws of physics do not apply in space. Or to anybody involved in space. Or anybody who isn't involved in space but comes into contact with somebody who is.
Or doesn't actually come into contact but is in somehow interfered with by someone else not practising the prime directive. A Starfleet captain, for example. |
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 alien_avatar
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Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| No matter what the laws of physics tell us it is possible to build a handheld laser/phaser/ray gun. |
*glares at mellowman*
Whyever not?!?!?! I always wanted one!!!
The laws of physics are seriously overrated, anyway. 
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 SiriusCreations
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What, are there laws of physics in the void? 
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Aur
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If you are artificially shrunk or enlarged, your clothes will also be proportionately shrunk or enlarged. You will almost never end up naked due to artificial size adjustment.
-- see also: teleportation
In the future, there are no toilets.
Clones are evil. Don't ever make clones.
With a few very simple modifications, all manner of tech gadgets including communicators, phasers and hand-held computers can be made to overload and explode.
The aliens usually hate humans. If the aliens don't hate humans, humans will find a way to offend the aliens, and then the aliens will hate humans.
If you succeed at creating the perfect AI, you're screwed.
The answer is 42. |
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weaponlordzero
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The answer is definitely 42... but what is the question?
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Gert
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Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Aur wrote: |
If you are artificially shrunk or enlarged, your clothes will also be proportionately shrunk or enlarged. You will almost never end up naked due to artificial size adjustment.
-- see also: teleportation
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Yes, of course- how do you think humans aren't rematerialized inside out?
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| With a few very simple modifications, all manner of tech gadgets including communicators, phasers and hand-held computers can be made to overload and explode. |
Well, yeah, everything in space is run by small sources of nuclear energy or something similar which generates the ridiculously high amounts of energy required for such devices. Why shouldn't they explode if someone sticks a fork in the proverbial socket?
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In fact, no matter what the laws of physics tell us, the laws of physics do not apply in space. Or to anybody involved in space. Or anybody who isn't involved in space but comes into contact with somebody who is.
Or doesn't actually come into contact but is in somehow interfered with by someone else not practising the prime directive. A Starfleet captain, for example. |
First, whoa. Second, is that last bit a Q reference?
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| People will always walk towards you in a hallway. No one ever comes from behind you and walks past you. |
Except when they do.
I would also like to add Note #849742: when in doubt, use an Electro-Magnetic pulse. This fixes everything at least 90% of the time. Each subsequent blast increases percentage of success at negative exponential rates. |
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