RetiredUSNChief
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Ummm...
If you're basing what you would do in reality off of Hollywood features produced for entertainment, then I submit to you that the real fault is the failure to suspend belief for the duration of what is entertainment and not instruction.
In real life, anvils don't spontaneously materialize over people and drive them into anvil shaped holes in the ground, from which they later crawl out with nothing more than a lump on their heads. Yet this knowledge does not hamper my enjoyment of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner shows.
In real life, transporters don't exist and cross circuiting to B and reversing polarity doesn't solve anything. Yet this knowledge does not hamper my enjoyment of Star Trek.
In real life, submarine CO's do not bring their dogs underway with them, fighter jets do not shoot down the enemy with blue tipped training missiles, sonar screens do not have little dots on them representing the enemy ships, the bleeping reactors do NOT have clear plexiglass vessel heads with removable control rods in them, submarines do not launch torpedoes to the command "Fire!", and they most certainly do not engage in high speed maneuvers while launching torpedoes right and left at Godzilla in a shallow harbor.
If you're viewing Hollywood movies and TV shows meant for entertainment with a mind for technical accuracy, then I submit to you that you've missed the point of the shows.
Sit back, relax, enjoy the show and, if you must, play MST3000 to your heart's content while doing so!
(Just don't do that while your spouse is watching, too. My wife hates that.)
If you're basing what you would do in reality off of Hollywood features produced for entertainment, then I submit to you that the real fault is the failure to suspend belief for the duration of what is entertainment and not instruction.
In real life, anvils don't spontaneously materialize over people and drive them into anvil shaped holes in the ground, from which they later crawl out with nothing more than a lump on their heads. Yet this knowledge does not hamper my enjoyment of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner shows.
In real life, transporters don't exist and cross circuiting to B and reversing polarity doesn't solve anything. Yet this knowledge does not hamper my enjoyment of Star Trek.
In real life, submarine CO's do not bring their dogs underway with them, fighter jets do not shoot down the enemy with blue tipped training missiles, sonar screens do not have little dots on them representing the enemy ships, the bleeping reactors do NOT have clear plexiglass vessel heads with removable control rods in them, submarines do not launch torpedoes to the command "Fire!", and they most certainly do not engage in high speed maneuvers while launching torpedoes right and left at Godzilla in a shallow harbor.
If you're viewing Hollywood movies and TV shows meant for entertainment with a mind for technical accuracy, then I submit to you that you've missed the point of the shows.
Sit back, relax, enjoy the show and, if you must, play MST3000 to your heart's content while doing so!
(Just don't do that while your spouse is watching, too. My wife hates that.)
