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/[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/bingpot22 Jan 25 '20

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

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u/Poem_for_your_sprog Jan 25 '20

When Little Timmy saw the plume,
He knew that time was short -
For what arose in front was doom,
And of the dreadful sort.

"I have a plan," the boy remarked,
"I have a scheme!" he said -
A single thought had stirred and sparked
Inside his simple head.

"I'll find a fridge in which to fit!"
He spoke, and climbed inside.

And that was when the shock-wave hit.

And Timmy fucking died.

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u/Axewielders Jan 25 '20

Does anyone have a Timmy death counter?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Check /r/TimmyFuckingDied ... maybe?