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I liked the concept but man those nerds literally couldn’t think one step ahead

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So many movies would only be a few minutes long if the characters were portrayed as being intelligent. Especially horror movies.

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45 points

Jurassic Park: Hey, zoo’s usually put the dangerous animals in huge pitts. Like lions are put in this massive open space that’s sunk 200 feet down and surrounded by a wooden wall, with glass panes to look through. Think we should make the T-Rex paddock like that?

Fuck no! We’re going to put this 20 foot tall beast inside a tiny paddock that’s only secured by electrical wires. Controlled by an IT system of 1 guy. With no backup electric generator. Spared ALL the expenses!

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39 points

Spared ALL the expenses!

I feel like that was the point of the movie, like cutting corners and skimping on the important stuff results in bad things happening. And to think through the implications of scientific development before editing head first into the unknown.

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13 points

Tbf it was on an island, so they were supposed to just get on boats / planes / helicopters / whatever and get away to safety easily.

Thank goodness that storms never occur in the tropics!? :-P

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Well the thing about Jurassic Park that is lost in the movie adaptation, is that John Hammond was a megalomaniac who (in my opinion) thought he was a god. He didn’t think anything he did was wrong nor that anything could go wrong for him.

The Ending

He and Ian Malcom get killed by a pack of compsognathus trying to get in the helicopter leaving the park.

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19 points

I love Cabin in the Woods for that.

“We should stick together.” - fart spray - “We should split up.”

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The other problem is the ship signal they traced would have been frequency shifted by the same amount as the time dilation. They would have had to compensate for that to even detect the signal.

It was 1 hour : 7 years I think. So about a factor of 60,000. So if a ping was once a second it would be once every 42 days. And if it was a 1MHz transmission it would be at about 17Hz.

So they somehow realized the once a second 1MHz signal was now a every 42 day 17Hz signal at 1/60000 the power. But didn’t realize that there was time dilation involved.

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20 points

I feel like those funky robots may have done some of the heavy lifting.

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13 points

That implies some code monkey somewhere decided that feature didn’t need a user notification!

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Couldn’t you use that in reverse to create a planet-destroying superlaser?

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But didn’t realize that there was time dilation involved.

They knew there would be time dilation. They literally discussed it just before they went down there. They just thought they could get it done in a few earth-years rather than decades.

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They did know about the time dilation, though? They weren’t surprised by the fact that there was time dilation, they just didn’t fully grasp what the results would be.

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