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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 57 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Unless they run on a neural net or a genetic algorithm.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Remember when they dialed down the sass? Turns out that setting also affected physics notifications. "physicsassistant" - it was a typo!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 46 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

I love Cabin in the Woods for that.

"We should stick together." - fart spray - "We should split up."

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 42 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 11 points 11 hours ago

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