This Guy NEVER Fails to Prove a Point

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Permalink Reply by Stephan on July 7, 2009 at 8:01pm

Yeah, he nails it. This is the main reason why there's nothing wrong with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull... I mean, besides the monkeys, I hate that part. But I like Indy 4 a lot better than Temple of Doom, which I feel is by far the worst of the series.

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Permalink Reply by Deadly Dr. Jay on July 7, 2009 at 8:04pm

yea i saw this on his myspace this morning.

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Permalink Reply by ProtoEva00 on July 7, 2009 at 10:43pm

The fridge was unforgivable, it just dwarfs every one of the others, takes your suspension of disbelief, and beats you with it. There is no silly character or magic you can shuffle this off to, Indy, all by him self, snubbed physics like Bugs Bunny. To say the tank off the cliff was worse, there was unseen time Indy could have just kept rolling off the tank, and falls into improbable but possible.
The wal-mart skull also hurt that movie much more than I thought it would.
If you can omit those, Kingdom was fantastic, and I'll even chuckle at the silly monkey scene.

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Permalink Reply by Stephan on July 7, 2009 at 10:45pm

I really didn't have a problem suspending my disbelief in that scene. I accepted it as a part of Indiana Jones' universe and all I thought was that it was "awesome", not "that's impossible".

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Permalink Reply by Brock on July 8, 2009 at 11:26am

Like he said the Fridge scene is far more realistic then the raft scene in Temple of Doom, so I don't know why people get so pissed at the Fridge scene but forgive The Raft Scene.

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Permalink Reply by Iron Man on July 8, 2009 at 11:30am

Getting a direct hit by a nuclear bomb and surviving is more realistic?

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Permalink Reply by Brock on July 8, 2009 at 11:41am

The movie clearly said the fridge is lead lined so that would protect him from the radiation, not to mention the fridge would protect him as soon as it sets on fire for a few brief minutes which is easily long enough for the blast to send you flying, and IF the nuclear bomb could throw the fridge far enough from the radiation it is possible that the person could survive. It's a small chance (about 30%) but it IS possible.

The Raft scene is far more ridiculous, beacuse there is no way a raft like that would be inflated enough to protect you from breaking any bones. The only parts that inflate on the raft are the edges, the bottom(The one a person sits on) doesn't inflate. So as soon as you hit the snow you'd snap like a twig.

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Permalink Reply by Iron Man on July 8, 2009 at 11:53am

Lead lined wouldn't help(maybe from the radiation but I'm sure it doesn't matter because you would already be dead), the heat would burn it straight away. Show me why he has a 30% of survival?

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Permalink Reply by Brock on July 8, 2009 at 12:18pm

The fact the fridge is lead lined would help from the radiation and the heat wouldn't burn through it depending on the metal used to make the fridge, the metal that the fridge is made of would give him a few brief minutes because when metal and fire meet, the metal heats up and in some cases melts (Depending on what metal the fridge is made out of). Take a metal object and use a blowtorch on it and you'll find that most of the time the metal doesn't melt but instead only gets hot and turns red.

So IF Indy was in the fridge and the bomb went off, we can easily say that the lead lined would stop the radiation, the metal would heat up to a massive amount in seconds, then the force would send ya flying.

Depending on how long between the force that would send you flying and massive amount of heat, then the survival rate differs. If there is 5 seconds between the heat and the blast, you'd probably die. If it was 2 seconds between the heat and blast, you could survive.

It all depends on timing, distance from where the bomb went off, and type of nuclear bomb used. Surviving the nuclear explosion while in a fridge is possible ....the HUGE factor that comes into play is the fact that the fridge is thrown at 100mph and ends up without a single dent. That part in the movie is ridiculous, but depending on the thickness of the metal it is possible to survive but not like Indy did.

If someone in real life was to hide in a fridge during a nuclear explosion, the heat would burn your feet, hands, or any limbs touching the walls of the fridge. The force sending you flying would cause massive dents in the fridge when it hits the ground, which would probably cause some broken bones.

It is possible but not like they did in the movie.

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Permalink Reply by Iron Man on July 8, 2009 at 12:22pm

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/08/is-it-possible-to-survive...

http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7501919888/m/2851...

" If Jones is close enough to the blast to get caught in the blast wave, he'll likely be killed, either by the overpressure wave itself or the impact when he lands. The reefer would likely protect him from particle radiation (alpha/beta) and would give him limited protection from gamma rays and x-rays. In short, he would suffocate to death (assuming he survived the blast, thermal pulse and impact of landing) before it would be even remotely safe for him to get out of it. Since he does not want to die in this ignominious fashion, he gets out and dies of radiation poisoning".

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Permalink Reply by Brock on July 8, 2009 at 12:28pm

The guy who commented at the bottom said pretty much what I just said, it's possible to survive the explosion but the fact the explosion sends you flying would most likely be the death of you.

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Permalink Reply by Iron Man on July 8, 2009 at 12:29pm

"Have you ever seen photos of ground zero hiroshima? The fridge would have been melted no matter what it was made of".

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