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Post by matzo on Aug 31, 2005 10:18:45 GMT
hi, when ray picks up a rock from the hole created by the lightning, he says its cold, surley it would be smouldering hot!  |
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Post by Refugee on Aug 31, 2005 12:21:59 GMT
It's to emphasise that something isn't right, something otherworldly.
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Post by matzo on Aug 31, 2005 12:30:25 GMT
ahh, is there anyway that could happen in real life though, like a scientific explanation!?
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Post by Refugee on Aug 31, 2005 16:31:08 GMT
If energy was drawn from the rock in someway, or a chemical endothermic reaction where the interior of the rock was absorbing energy.
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Post by D.A.V.E on Aug 31, 2005 17:10:22 GMT
Why do we have three seperate threads for questions that could easily have been answered in one?  It looks tidier then! [dusts around]... It's all down to keeping your audience interested. Most of us know that lightning is highly charged electricity, and is usually very hot (hence why strike victims are always severely burnt). If he had picked it up and dropped it because it was hot, we would have been like, "duh"... but as soon as he said it was cold... you were like.. "Ooh.. hang on.. that's not normal.." - as Refugee rightly said. Its a fantastic indication that trouble is brewing, and something isn't right. I would like to know what he did with that piece of rock, mind... |
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Post by Thunder Child on Sept 1, 2005 20:50:24 GMT
Cruise threw it at the alien pilot when he was sucked into the machine and left the grenades.
That stone saved his life! :-)
Johan
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Post by Lensman on Sept 2, 2005 8:19:39 GMT
A scientific explanation for sucking energy out of something? Maybe "negative energy". www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf/topics/wormhole/wormhole.htmlBut I seriously doubt the script writer or director rationalized it in a scientific manner. Refugee had it right; it's just spozed to be a way to say to the audience: "Hey, something weird is happening!" |
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It looks tidier then! [dusts around]...
