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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
Can't drones do a lot of that now?
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Not in films when somebody shows up in a situation room and says "We hear evidence that there's someone in house in Hargeisa who is plotting an attack. Can we see who's been in and out of that house in the last 2 hours?"
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Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View Post2. Stopping someone sneezing
Our protagonists (usually a man and a woman) are hiding from a nearby adversary. The woman is about to sneeze and give them away, but the man prevents it by putting his finger horizontally under her nose.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostBuilding a massive underground lair beneath a extinct volcano. Do you know how hard it is to dispose of 10 million cubic meters of lava and dirt?
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostSpaceships that somehow have gravity on them
That’s why The Expanse is so good. The gravity issue affects everything as does the lag time in interplanetary communications.
Now any time I see a film showing instantaneous communications across millions of miles, I can’t get into it at all. Star Wars explains that away with hyperspace relays, but some things that are supposed to be about the real near future show people having a norma phone conversation between Earth and Mars. In reality, it would actually take at least a few minutes for each signal to get from one end to the other.
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- Oct 2011
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- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Originally posted by WOM View PostBuilding a massive underground lair beneath a extinct volcano. Do you know how hard it is to dispose of 10 million cubic meters of lava and dirt?
Edit - just seen the other posts about how this can be done - the Nazis showed that the answer is 'at massive human cost'.
"It was during October, November, and December of 1943 that the most physically punishing work was done by the Dora prisoners, who struggled under terrible, inhuman conditions to enlarge and fit out the Mittelwerk tunnels. Prisoners drilled and blasted away thousands of tons of rock. They built rickety, temporary narrow gauge tracks to support the multi-ton loads of rock that were extracted from the caves. If the skips or small rail cars, full of rock fell off these tracks (and this happened frequently), prisoners were kicked, whipped, and beaten until they could re-rail and reload the cars.
The prisoners were made to eat and sleep within the tunnels they were digging. Thousands of workers were crammed into stinking, lice infested bunks stacked four-high in the first few south side cross tunnels at the mouth of Tunnel A, in an atmosphere thick with gypsum dust and fumes from the blasting work, which continued 24 hours a day. Prisoners had no running water or sanitary facilities. Dysentery, typhus, tuberculosis, and starvation were constant causes of suffering and death for these unfortunate people. The Detainees worked atop 30 foot scaffolds using picks to enlarge the tunnels. From time to time, a prisoner would become too weak to continue, fall to his death from the scaffolding, and be replaced by another. Trucks bearing piles of prisoner corpses left every other day for the crematorium ovens at Buchenwald. All of the manufacturing equipment from Peenem?nde had to be installed in the tunnels. This was done by hand by prisoner workers using hand-carts, block and tackle, huge skids pulled by teams of prisoners, and the temporary narrow gauge rail lines."Last edited by Kevin S; 22-10-2020, 21:14.
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Originally posted by Kevin S View Post
That can't be done, but a massive underground ballistic factory including a railway, beneath a mountain with some tunnels in it, can be built in three months with sufficient slave labour from concentration camps.
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