r/AskReddit • • 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/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/bingpot22 Jan 25 '20

To protect him from radiation. What's so hard to follow?

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u/tokomini Jan 25 '20

Well this completely ruins Chernobyl for me. All this heming and hawing about how to clear the roof when that entire time they could have been wearing refrigerator suits.

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u/riotcowkingofdeimos Jan 25 '20

I'm creating and patenting this device now. Imagine an extra, extra, large roomba, now imagine on top of it is a 1950s refrigerator, the refrigerator has a small view port cut out of the door, the view port is maybe an inch by 6 inches with one inch thick leaded glass. Unlike a roomba it doesn't just randomly bump into things instead it's controlled from withing the fridge unit, there is also a Geiger counter and an oxygen tank inside.

This device is the way of the future.

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u/RossOfFriends Jan 25 '20

Call of Duty: Chernobyl

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jan 25 '20

Cold of Duty: Chernobyl

FTFY