Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review 284
An anonymous reader writes "George Lucas claims there was 'a 50/50 chance' Indiana Jones could survive the atomic blast in Legend of the Crystal Skull by hiding inside a refrigerator. Dr. David Shechner subjects this claim to rigorous peer review, and his findings are not good news for people looking to hide from nukes in appliances."
Trauma (Score:5, Interesting)
Forget the radiation and heat. The trauma from the g-forces of that flight and landing would have killed anyone easily.
Survival not so good for TFA website: (Score:3, Interesting)
homage to the original back to the future script (Score:5, Interesting)
in the original back to the future script, marty mcfly was sent "back to the future" in a refrigerator in one of the model houses at a nuclear test site. doc brown modded the fridge somehow so that the radiation would trigger the time circuits.
the original script was very surreal, and a blatant social commentary on the failure/decay of the space age. for example, iirc, the time machine was powered by diet cola and marty is stranded because aspartame isn't invented until 1965.
Re:homage to the original back to the future scrip (Score:2, Interesting)
That explains the " I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by. " line.
That never made any sense to me : surely Doc Brown, as crazy as he was, knew that plutonium was too dangerous to ever be sold to ordinary consumers in a residential area. But diet soda WAS sold then, if he said " I'm sure that in 1985 aspartame/diet soda is available in every corner drugstore " it would have made perfect sense.
Ironically, the line is funnier with plutonium.
Re:A child died, playing hide and seek (Score:4, Interesting)
It happened, about 4 decades ago
And do you know what has changed in the past four decades?
Residential refrigerators don't latch. Haven't for 20-30 years, at least. They use a passive magnetic seal that even a kid could push open. Even standalone (residential) freezer units don't self-latch - They require a removable key-like knob to engage the lock, manually, from the outside (and even then, always have a safety release inside).
Children watching the movie might just do what the hero does - hide inside a fridge, - and suffocate, just like that poor child who died 4 decades ago
So really, you just want to advocate for Time Machine safety, rather than ranting against how many cases of the plague we could avoid by simply getting rid of the rats?