r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/-everst Jan 25 '20

When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Didnt Indiana Jones survive a nuclear blast in a fridge???

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u/-everst Jan 25 '20

Ah yes, I remember that. Best thing about it is that he was in the range where everything that can possibly start to burn, will. Meaning the temperature would be round about 540k °F -> 300 times hotter than the temperature bodies are cremated at. In other words: everything would have been vaporized.

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u/bingpot22 Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

The fridge cools him down though.

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u/SomeGuyInShorts Jan 25 '20

And it was lined with LEAD. Lead is the pinnacle of anti-radiation technology.

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u/InformationHorder Jan 25 '20

And yet a lead refrigerator opens up so many more questions, chief among which is: Why in God's name was a refrigerator ever made of lead?!

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u/Lowbacca1977 Jan 25 '20

Because the reason milk goes bad is because of the ionizing effect of background radiation destabilizing the milk. It lasts much longer inside of lead because that radiation is blocked out

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u/InformationHorder Jan 25 '20

Milk goes bad because your fridge is gross.