| From: | Fhaolan arkemp@******.net |
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| Subject: | Simsense question (was: RE: Let the fun begin) |
| Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:28:05 -0800 |
>That sums up most movie special effects quite nicely, then. They're
>absolutely convincing to people who've never seen the real thing. Your
>everyday sod probably *doesn't* find movie computers ludicrous. I
>expect that real bomb disposal technicians hold their heads and weep
>every time the hero agonises over whether to cut the red or the blue
>wire. I've never actually seen a building get bombed before, but I'm
>*positive* that the explosion wouldn't send plumes of orange flame
>billowing out every single window.
>
>And so on , and so on...
>
>So yeah, like everybody else who's commented, I'm pretty sure that the
>trids would have quite convincing astral scenes, with rave reviews
>commenting on the "gritty, etherealness of the astral effects".
My grandfather was an engineer, and during the war he was given the task of
supervising a detonator factory. That's how he met my grandmother, because
she was deliberately incompetent at building detonators in order to get his
assistance all the time, and thereby monopolize his attention, but anyway....
He always snickered at those movies because, and I quote, "All the wires
are blue." According to him, you had to trace back all the wires to their
terminals in order to identify them. That may have been specific to the
bomb systems he built, though, rather than a general rule.
-Fhaolan
