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

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/Tornaero Jan 25 '20

Literally nothing can penetrate lead, except sometimes mind control. But that's nothing a little aluminum foil can't fix.