Windmills Don't Work That Way!

[Araciel]

I think it's all about focus of the plot in the film...the Phoenix Saga could be it's own franchise if it weren't for the X-Men being involved...It just irked me a bit.

Also, there's a knife device that is made to cut through annoying 'blisterpacks' but it comes in one..That always makes me laugh and die a little on the inside.

[Peegee]

If you think about it, Peter Parker creates an adhesive threading that melts in a few hours.

And he was, at the time, in high school? That's too impossible.

[Araciel]

So is a radioactive spider passing on spider powers. Go make a thread about it n00b.

[Peegee]

So is a radioactive spider passing on spider powers. Go make a thread about it n00b.

No that's possible.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7093/breakfwz2.gif

see

wait..

[Kes]

If you think about it, Peter Parker creates an adhesive threading that melts in a few hours.

And he was, at the time, in high school? That's too impossible.

"So, they laughed at me for <b>being</b> a bookworm, eh? Well, only a science major could have created a device like this! With some strong liquid cement at the end, I can pull myself up from <b>anywhere</b> with my little web!" -Peter Parker

Well, it was the '60s. They tried. Hence the extra help in the Ultimate Spider-man. They even mention how hard it is to come up with a small liquid-to-solid that will hold significant weight and not last forever.

[Big D]

In the '60s, radioactive [anything] could lead to anything else. Nowadays, it's genetically engineered [anything] that gets the same result. If Parker's going to gain spider-like powers for the sake of the plot, then the web-generation thing is a reasonable side-effect. It makes no scientific sense, of course, but that's so far beside the point as to be not worth considering.

Though I read an article on a 'movie science' site which calculated exactly how much thread Mr Parker might realistically produce. Based on the diameter of the thread, I think they worked out he could produce perhaps 200m of thread before he'd have exhausted the equivalent of his entire body volume.

Moral of the story: if you want rigid adherence to scientific reality, don't watch Spider-Man, X-Men, or any other comic-based film. They're meant to be fun, not educational - though with that kind of story, internal consistency is a plus.

:edit: Oh, and much glee at the Futurama reference in the thread title <3

[blackmage_nuke]

I lol at how everyone in this thread has started talking about spider man.

[Kes]

Moral of the story: if you want rigid adherence to scientific reality, don't watch Spider-Man, X-Men, or any other comic-based film. They're meant to be fun, not educational - though with that kind of story, internal consistency is a plus.

Internal consistency in comics? Really?


And, blackmage_nuke, Spider-man is one of those things where you think it would work one way and then it turns out to be something completely different. For example, you think Spider-man is married to MJ because, I don't know, it's been that way for years, and then suddenly, One More Day comes along and you're wrong.



But in a serious effort to be on topic: I really hate it when I think a) a door is supposed to be automatic and it isn't and then I stand there looking like an idiot, and b) when doors open the opposite way of how they look (they're push instead of pull or pull instead of push). >.>

[Big D]

But in a serious effort to be on topic: I really hate it when I think a) a door is supposed to be automatic and it isn't and then I stand there looking like an idiot, and b) when doors open the opposite way of how they look (they're push instead of pull or pull instead of push). >.>

Doors like that are a pain. At my old campus, the library doors were on pretty tough springs, so you had to push them rather hard. There was a big row of these doors out the front, and the problem was, on any given day half of them would be locked. So one walks up to a door and gives it a firm shove, only to have it fail to budge... damn near wrist-breaking