Brian Darnell sooo agree! That part is some of Cracked’s absolute best IMO. I’m here now because I watched this video for the umpteenth time, just for the sailing part.

I wish he went further in depth on sailing

2nd that. Wait, I beaten to it. 4rd that. This gentlemen is one of Crack's top 2, if not their best presenter. Loved the whole thing.

Agree, but I wish he'd gone in more depth on all the things, like a bit of proper orbital mechanics hadn't hurt..... he has glasses, he's a nerd, he clearlyl knows that shit :P

so true

+Joshua Pearce Cracked actually did a great video on what movies get wrong about Hacking.

+Joshua Pearce I have hacked so many computers, I'm like a techno Gandalf! All you have to do is find out where the computer brain lives, and attack it with force, my favorite way of hacking a computer brain is using a wooden baseball bat. Because only a dummy would use a metal bat, you would get shocked to death. Now if you're going to hack the main frame, you are going to need a fork, some wrap around glasses, and a Samurai sword to hack the defenses with, that's kind of why it's called hacking. Soon as you stab the a USB port with the fork, you are linked in.

+Joshua Pearce Except maybe... The Imitation Game... kinda sorta

+Mark Arandjus And possibly Sneakers.

River Kagamine I would watch it

As a sailor who is pissed at every movie ignoring the laws of physics with sailboats, I would too

River Kagamine I want to listen to what he has to say about the Horatio Hornblower movie series. I read the first two books and they were fun to read.

As a sailor myself, I found it fucking hilarious xD

Let's call it *the Mast and the Furious*. ;-)

And then as a Ham, I wanted to rage at both him and the movie for the radio scene...

For me its guns, sometimes movies so unbelievably retarded about them

food. and physics. superhero movies make me want to rip my hair out

There's this thing called the Gell-Mann Amensia Effect, where experts get frustrated about how everything within their area of expertise is misrepresented but still assume the publication/film is mostly correct on other matters. As opposed to assuming they got the rest of the stuff wrong too.

I know a lot about a lot of different things so I get annoyed by most movies. Computer, aviation, ships, the military, firearms, cars, science, engineering. I just have to say, "F' it, it's a movie." I was watching some British production which had some scenes involving the US Army. They had a sergeant saluting a freaking staff sergeant. Not a mocking salute, or a friendly joking salute but a realy, "yes, sir. I will obey salute." That was another thing, the sergeant called the staff sergeant "sir." My brain went "Ka-boom".

Cre Mist there are people who actually believe you can access traffic lights from the internet and control the power grid

Cre Mist At least we have not seen the hacking not working and then the hacker punching the keyboard to make it work; like with CPR.

Schwarzer, he did disable the bomb though lol

To be fair that is how one finds the best porn...then awkward tech support call, before grandma comes home...... I hate being the family tech support....

actually, many parts of the powergrid and traffic management systems are connected to somewhat isolated networks. The problem is to access those systems and knowing ho to operate properitary systems that are 20 yerars old

They should make their own film about George Washington, Barack Obama, Franklin D. Rooselvelt and Bill Clinton sailing to a remote location to destroy a cursed object.

I would watch the shit out of that movie.

Ok upon further thought on this, it's a novel about an agnostic who dies and goes to an island in limbo. The gates of hell have opened, God has given the only object which can close them, a cursed key containing the Devils old soul from when he was an angel. He gave this cursed object to 4 of the greatest leaders of the free world, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and George Washington. Together they will sail to the edge of limbo to close the gates of hell before they unleash chaos upon the real world.

The novel shall be called "the final campaign".

+Andy Foster I don't know whether to complain about you having an all-white cast list or point out what a sausage-fest it is.

The 7G-Tronic has two reverse gear ratios: 3.416 and 2.231 Also people that custom build their demolition derby cars will sometime flip their output ring gear so they can have more torque and higher speeds when slamming into people ;)

so what you're saying is that that is what they used in the movie... right?

+chepe perez I mean, they could have. But I was just saying there are actually uses for more than one reverse gear.

alright, thank you. regardless of that fact... it's still a really dumb movie lol

yeah or maybe there was a tank transmission in the car in the movie

Ikr? I keep going back to that line!

So glad to come across another fellow myth-buff! They're the same way with history. At least with myths the filmmakers have some sort of creative license to change them, but yeah it's frustrating to see Thor and his buddies act like Hercules and the Greeks; to see Beowulf's mother being a sexy Gorgon; and to witness the Kraken in a movie about Greek mythology. Movies lie.

Navid Haider but with movies about history, they often atleast try to get some facts right. I saw the wonderwoman trailer, and she said her name was Diana, A child of Zeus. It's easy to say her name is Artemis, or say that her father is Jupiter.

Eline Verstraeten Well for Wonder Woman, like Thor, they're drawing from the comics so the fault is more on those than the film itself. And Artemis is a separate existing character in the comics (Diana's rival at times). The bigger flaw about that particular trailer is that Diana was never a daughter of Zeus in the old comics! In fact, she wasn't regarded as a daughter of the gods until very recently, which I thought was a terrible addition and took away from Wonder Woman's original story. Hell, her creator never even used Greek names. Her biggest bad in the comics is Ares, but under the WW's creator, he was always called 'Mars.'

Navid Haider Why would they do that?

Eline Verstraeten I blame the editors. For some stupid reason the comic-book editors behind Wonder Woman were never as serious about her book as they were for more popular male characters like Superman and Batman. The whole deal about making her a "daughter of Zeus" is so recent that it makes me think whether the editors simply decided "let's make her a traditional Greek heroine, how were they? Oh yeah, sons or daughters of Zeus. Just.. just throw that in." Another very, very weird thing was when the same editors made Wonder Woman a "goddess of war" when for DECADES she was a character who stood against war-mongering Amazons, or evil scheming politicians. She was a peace-keeper. But I guess the success of the video-game 'God of War' led the editors to redefine a character who's been around for generations to fit a popular trend. Even when that trend was essentially against everything she stood for before. Oh and thanks for giving me the chance to rant about this! :)

Every movie where a slow moving vehicle comes to an sudden stop and everybody flies forward like the vehicle was going 800 mph. Every movie where heroes don't have to aim at objects two miles away, yet the baddies can't hit the broad side of a barn at point blank. Every movie where concave glasses can catch sunlight and start a fire.

Every movie where laser guns HAVE recoil.

EVERY movie, where tires screetch when cornering or braking hard - on GRAVEL

It is completely acceptable to address a General as Sir or Ma’am. AR 600-25 1-5

Every movie where people are knocked out with one moderately strong punch to the jaw?

+Tyler Cook nothing because cinema sins only points out very very small details in movies and often gets lots of things wrong if you actually paid attention in the film. theyre slowly turning into cinema sins brands edition. plus they sin bad movies more often than good ones so theres that.

+Chanelle FT These days I can barely get through an entire cinema sins video. The definition of sins changed into something more arbitrary and the videos last up to half an hour. TL;DW

+detubeme So you have an even shorter attention span than everyone else lol wow.

+detubeme I feel that the current definition of a "sin" in those videos would be anything that breaks suspension of disbelief. So, anything that makes you focus your attention and back out of the film and start asking questions that don't pertain to the story.

+Chanelle FT EXACTLY

Well.. except the screaming part, cause you know... vacuum and what not.

The Earth isn't a spring ball.

+Tanner Cleffi What about Everest? From the trailers it looked less cheesy than usual.

Me with blacksmithing, metalworking in general, any sort of weapons, and history (history degree, here). I just tend to not watch tv or movies anymore, it's nigh impossible to enjoy.

+farmerboy916 Can't you just enjoy it for things like acting, directing, cinematography, writing, etc. or sheer entertainment factor? Knowing all of Braveheart's glaring mistakes doesn't make me enjoy it any less. The Matrix's whole "Humans as Batteries" debacle doesn't detract from the lobby shootout.

+Sting SniperScope How about that during the lobby shootout, those security guards were just normal human security and Neo and Trinity just brutally straight up murdered them?

Beas7ie I try not to think about it to hard. I mean Luke Skywalker killed over a million staff and their families on board the Death Star.

+Robert Gibbs Exception: Generation Kill. I'm waiting for the next exception, maybe an actual movie this time. Having read the book, I thought American Sniper would be it, but the Iraq parts of that had little to no relation to real events (or even the basic feeling of the war in Iraq, which his book about his own experiences nailed).

+Robert Gibbs I'm amazed you were able to serve for 8 years despite being so thick you hadn't managed to figure out what officers were for.

My father was an officer, flew helicopters in the Navy, picked up enlisted and officers out of the water and hunted for submarines. I'd say that's pretty heroic.

+phillyslasher In all fairness I've seen a lot of military people from different branches give each other shit, but it's usually good natured trash talk than any serious rivalry.

+gkm077 no one cares

I was thinking about that. Double clutching in a Nissan Skyline GT-R... WTF

Yeah, but "Even though automobile and light truck transmissions are now almost universally synchronized, transmissions for heavy trucks and machinery, motorcycles, and for dedicated racing are usually not... For racing of production-based transmissions, sometimes half the teeth on the dog clutches are removed to speed the shifting process, at the expense of greater wear."

+Allen S Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes. The cheeks thing bugs me so much. Also, that no one ever seems to wear a neck strap. I know some people perform without them, but that shit hurts after a while, especially with a bigger sax, especially when swinging your horn.

+Allen S Or when Guitarists play power chords when the audio is playing full chords.

+Anya Bolden I could never get the hang of C# without a neck strap.

IveGotToast High, low, or middle?

Oh my gosh, this. I also watch their fingers to see how close they're getting to actually fingering the correct notes. It's the worst when someone's playing, like, a cello or similar instrument and the track is playing a high note but the actor is "playing" on the lowest string. AND ANY TIME THE FINGERING AND BOWING AREN'T IN TIME TO THE MUSIC. Like get it together, at least try to make it look like you know what the tune is.

+Batman they also say no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public

+Batman That's a bad quote. I mean first off, any movie like Alien or Star Wars. Secondly, you need to extend that quote to "Write what you know, if you don't know it learn it." Otherwise it's an okay quote. Just better to let people know they should learn what they want to write about. ...yeah, after writing this I realized how pointless this was and like how it will do literally nothing.

What would you write a book about? How I Got Rich: Thanks Mom & Dad, Also RIP Mom & Dad, Chapter 1: I Will Avenge You?

+Shane Benjamson RE: Star Wars -- it's still applies to write what you know, as Lucas was a huge Kurosawa and Buck Rogers fan. He was just putting together the 2 things he really loved.

+Batman I'd say a better thought would be "write what your audience knows" since 98% of the people going to see Hurt Locker weren't soldiers, and a similar percent of movie-goers aren't sailors, ergo messing up these kinds of details are fine in the service of dramatic tension and artistic license.

+getpumped87 lol i couldnt keep my eyes off his tattoo

+Noah S Thanks! This makes total sense now! I honestly couldn't wrap my head around how that tattoo worked!

How did he lose his arm? The green screen! It came outta nowhere! Chopped it right off! It was horrifying!

+getpumped87 That's just him being "activated." No need to worry unless you are his target.

écland Bousquet Wrong cannon mate.

écland Bousquet what about all the shooting and no hearing loss?

Walking dead season 8 so much

J.F.L. Bousquet Even better, the same gun with zero recoil flings the guy it hits through the room.

Also guns just generally not hurting your ears. John Wick wouldn't be able to hear people sneaking up on him pretty much silently if he was shooting all day.

+Lincoln Noronha No. That car flipped the bus BY LETTING THE BUS REAREND IT.

+Lincoln Noronha It's called a hip check and it totally works in hockey. The bus flipping isn't even the worst part of that scene though, how did the spoiler and quarter panel go undamaged?

+enginesnblades I'm pretty sure that car should look like a crumpled can and shot forward, considering how much inertia the bus has.

Kind of like tripping someone...but with a car

Shawn Williams The front end surviving makes sense, but yeah everything axel and back would be destroyed, bus rolling or not.

YES lmao that should be a thing

Wait til you find out the entire movie was based on a real event. Spoiler alert: There was no Ursula in the real one.

As an actual car enthusiast, The Fast and the Furious is awesome... if you watch it as an excuse for laughing at every single detail, half-drunk, with friends.

@@AlejandroLZuvic What the fuck is an enthusiest? If you're an actual Motorhead you love FF and you don't care about the inaccuracies, because it's just a mindless action movie.

Allen .berge if your a fan of ff just because its an action movie that makes you a fan of action movies not cars

Notice how most of the cars they were shifting in this video were automatic and not manual/standard transmissions? And I know jack shit about cars.

+Cracked You do know that you can upload these as unlisted and test them out before making them public, right?

+Cracked Label Clack Clack videos as such so we can avoid them, thanks Cracked.

+Cracked I can't imagine what problems it had before you re-uploaded it, but I can't hear anything unless I turn up the volume so much that getting an email in my mail client will explode my ears.

+Cracked Is that why the volume is super low?

+Iritscen Update: I didn't get an email before I finished the video, so I'm okay.

@Zimmit's Fabulous Wonder Hoagies 8-figure? Did you count cents too? And the period? :)

I have one , but don't use it. Not once did I ever

+pugfugly1989 damn, you stole my comment

+pugfugly1989 i still wish to learn the science of sailing into the wind. long ago, i heard about one of my middle school or elementary teachers had always went weekend sails in the puget sound for the challenge and fun, and only ran the motor for maintenance or if emergency were to come.

+Tyee Cambrón Silent Bob!

+pugfugly1989 You are completely wrong about the sailing thing but nice try. Trimmed sails have been around for as long as sailing have, Egyptian Nile boats from the 3rd millenium BC have them for Christs sake. No sails don't work by "capturing wind" they work more like a wing where the pressure is different on one side of the sail than on the other thus causing there to be a forward force. The billowing of sails actually causes this as if you look at a sail that is billowing it looks strangely like a wing with the way it curves. So the actual way a sail works is that the sail billows which makes a curve which acts as a sort of wing which generates force. This is the reason why sailing bots can travel faster than the speed of the prevailing wind, because the wind isn't propelling them forward it is the force it creates on the sails. Also the reason why in particularly high winds you have to feather your sails, because that force created becomes so great that the mast and/or sail can snap. The reason that we moved away from square sails is because we no longer needed ships that relied on sail power alone and a trimmed sail is much more efficient for smaller vessels easier to rig and doesn't require many many people to dangerously climb up the mast. it can all be done from on the deck.

Caesar Seriona wattttttt how do you know meeeee hahahaha

But, it will IF you're doing it wrong

what?

I always loved in Talledega Nights how Ricky down shifts when they do their slingshot maneuver. He has a stock car on a super speedway absolutely revved to the max and he needs to shift to 3rd to get a speed boost. okay then.

It took me a while to teach my mother that when the car is losing torque, like going up a hill, you shift down and floor it.

C'mon guys everybody knows fast and furious cars have 1579 shift gears lol, like in every movie when they race or escape with cars at certain point they push more the gas pedal.. And I always think what they do then? Escape or just going around?? If I had to escape and run with car, the gas pedal will be always pushed down!! But at least are movies ;)

It happened because they were both still decelerating and Clooney was doing so slower than Bullock so from the perspective of Bullock, he was being dragged away from her with a pretty strong force.

Krombopulos Michael No but the moment she caught him and stopped that motion, he should've been safe and easy to be pulled back. The force that sent them flying wasn't because of pull but because something knocked them that way. There's no (strong) gravity up there to pull them.

+Krombopulos Michael as soon as he grabbed the rope he would have stopped, theres no air resistance in space

+Edward Gil (ObaREX) Well gravity is pulling them but they're at orbital speed so they just fall around forever. Relative to the station and each other though there is nothing.

Jack Evans He was being pulled towards nothing. Even astronomers will tell you than whatever gravity that was around them was not strong enough to doom Clooney when Bullock got a hold of him. In real life, that would've saved him.

My father taught me how to pick hand cuffs and locks and I have to say, it is funny as hell how hard movies seem to make it out... Like... it actually isn't anywhere near as hard as movies make it out... (My father was Special Operations, which is where he learned)

Who are you and how did you get in here?

And then they get comparably slower? Because that's how orbits work? Also, that storm of debris stays amazingly close together for flying around the planet at that speed, especially since there are multiple different sized objects that would have split at separate times..

Well, only if you're measuring velocity in terms of, like, position around the planet irrespective of the actual linear velocity at any given time...right? Sorry if that makes no sense with respect to Gravity, I didn't see it...though the trailer looked pretty silly to me and I facepalmed when I saw that.

Well, yeah, but I'm speaking in terms relative to the movie. In gravity there is a debris field that crashes into Hubble and our main characters ship, which forces our character to find her way back home in orbit. But instead of, say, the debris field crashing in once, as it would be dense enough at that time, it instead SOMEHOW travels around the planet in a densely packed group, which becomes a thread of conflict. It should've split apart upon that first impact, and went in various directions, (See my first comment)

There is another problem. The relative velocities of the station and the debris. Let's assume, for the sake of my argument, that the debris does manage to stay in a cloud. In the movie, the debris is travelling at a velocity relative to the station of hundreds of meters (if not kilometers) per second, and in a direction at least somewhat parallel to the station's orbit. This means two things: A: The orbit of the debris cloud would have to have a perigee at or very near Hubble's orbit, because if it intersected it elsewhere, the debris would be moving at an angle relative to Hubble. B: The apogee of the orbit would have to be significantly higher than Hubble's. So the question is, what would create a could of debris with these orbital parameters? It seems even more unlikely that such a cloud could even have the orbit it has, much less impact Hubble.

there's another problem, why do they alway choose people with various mental problems (usually a depression due to a loss, suicidal tendencies, etc.) to go into the space? I'm pretty sure they are not short on applicants.

What you mean by used to be? Is the original trilogy a recent example for you?

DaaaahWhoosh with star wars starkiller and... Republicia it whatever it is are insanely close to each other, it would be like the distance from us to about alpha centauri... the star wars universe/galaxy is extremely compact compared to ours... and if that's the nitpick you have with star wars and not the entire concept of faster than light travel... or hovering starships with their own gravity...or laser swords that just stop for no reason... or literally a billion other things then... yea, idk what to tell you lol

I love “The Expanse” for not treating its audience like idiots and adhering to real-life physics excepting protomolecule weirdness

+JonO387 I understand that they might claim they hold some credibility, being a pretty massive long running franchise revolving almost exclusively around cars/driving. But no, everyone knows it's pretty much exclusively dumb action and doesn't try to make sense.

+JonO387 I have i miss the original movie, I have what they did to the franchise, not to say that the original everyone can afford a 25 to 45 g car, but common they started to do things that the original director would be started to scratch his head.

....not sure why anyone would

+JonO387 I still can't wrap my head around that 60 mile runway

mrwindupbird101 I have no idea what you're talking about.

Yes! I saw that too, and couldn't stop watching it.

Yeah, I'm genuinely curious.

Have you seen _John Wick_? I don't think the round counts were totally on [I forget], but the combat in that movie is at once Hollywood awesome and sort of plausible--at least if you forget that ALL of the moments in the movie are happening in sequence, if that makes sense. xD They definitely didn't do anything glaringly dumb with the guns, and there are some very cool ones in it--they didn't just go to a prop company and pick up a couple at random. It's basically a brutally realistic martial arts movie that happens to have tons of guns in it. [I could understand skipping it, since the trailer totally doesn't do it justice in that you can't tell what a good job they did at just _making an action movie_, compared to the preponderance of others with cool-looking trailers that aren't as good.]

or when someone magically cocks the hammer on a glock

cold 187um oh man I hate that so much

For the John Wick thing, there is a reason for that. Keanu Reeves is an actual martial artist and marksmen. There is actually a video of his going through a target course that shows he really knows how to shoot, and shoot quite well. So he knows his guns. On top of that, he does all of his own stunts and fight scenes, so they are much more real. I give mad props to Keanu Reeves, especially with John Wick.

About as stupid as cocking the hammer on a Glock is racking the slide. EVERY. TIME. YOU. THINK. ABOUT. DOING. SOMETHING. WHILE. HOLDING. A GUN. Lost was horrible about that and it pissed me off.

+Locutus thumps up if you still remember what VHS were.

+SkullKid20999 They were still around in the early 2000's so it's not that hard to remember them.

+SkullKid20999 Not only do I remember them, I even saw some recordable ones for sale at a local store not long ago. Almost made me shed some nostalgic tears.

TheRaven There was a little tab you could break off/cover with tape, so that you could literally record over any VHS ever.

+Locutus Goddamn kids these days don't even know how to hack a VHS tape! Hmmphh. Back in my day we had to _mumble mumble humbug_...

huh. I legitimately did not know that. out of curiosity, what do you do if they do flat line? CPR? there just dead?

pull out their wallet and leave

chest compressions

I feel like they're getting better with that one, at least on TV medical dramas; but how about when they show a doctor doing chest compressions, and someone says "It's been 30 minutes--call it." If they DID get your heart beating again after TEN minutes, your brain would be so damaged from being without oxygen for that long, there was no sense in "reviving" you. The only drama I've seen that addressed this, is the very first episode of The Resident, where the title character keeps working on a teenage OD after his attending tells him to stop. The girl's heart eventually starts beating again, and the resident is so happy because he "saved a life," and his attending says, "no, you saved a brain stem," and that she's never going to wake up again, and now her mom and sister have false hope.

@@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds True, but I was on a flight where a woman coded, and some nurses on board kept doing compressions for 20-some minutes until we landed. Maybe it's because there was no one in a position to say stop, but I was wondering what her brain function would be even if they did get her back.

End plates *snaps fingers*

+Cal6009 The Fast and the Furious was a bad knockoff of Point Break with street racing... FIFY

but fast and furious series is so much more awesome,thanks to Diesel and hot girls and cars

Hrishi Kick Except that Diesel is a hack whose best role was Groot.

Except the ridiculous sky diving scene in Point Break is actually entertaining

How Gravity isn't plausible? Ok ok, yes, Sandra Bullock miraculous trip back to Earth was.... miraculous... to say the least. But from a physical point of view, there aren't many errors. Ok, let's rephrase this. Don't get me wrong, Gravity has multiple errors, both physical and logical, and it also stretches the boundaries of imagination "quite a bit". But I don't really get all the hate when the movie's portrayal of space is basically dozens of times better than any other movie I can remember of in the last 20 years. 2001 is the only movie I can think of from the top of my head that's actually more accurate than Gravity in every way (except for the acid trip at the end of course). I mean, if you can't glare over errors on complex physical dynamics during the scene where Bullock and Clooney are tied up by a cable how in the world are you able to enjoy any other movie in the world? Like any other movie. I studied engineer so I understand one or two things about physics but when watching a movie, you kinda need to ignore such oversimplifications for fun.

Typo alert: IBM 7094.

This. For some Americans driving manual is black magic. For almost the rest of the world is... routine?

Oh don't me started with Japanese... Subtitle translations in mainstream Hollywood movies are always horrid xD. French suffers this too... Sometimes I wish I never learned Japanese and French because now that I do, I cannot unhear things.

Out of sync subtitles. Especially when the text is way slower than the speakers. *mouth moves for a good 1MIN and 30 seconds* "get out" . *mouth moves about 3 words* "You see captain, I am not the one responsible for the impact. In fact it was the Toru, who started the whole thing. You and you sister could never have known the habaki where going to attack the citadel. When the attack started you were making more mutant offspring. So therefore the impact must have been preplanned. YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW OF THE LOCATION! YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD THE ACCESS CODES! *other one screams in anime * "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" *Mouth moves for 4 minutes, long story with flashbacks* "It wasn't me!" *Mouth moves a few words* "Stupid sister. What did you think? That I really cared for you? That we were going to raise those mutant babies forever? Look at them! the perfect mutant army, that only you could help produce. It started when our father...."

Less jews

What frost was saying in that last stanza was that he would, in the future, tell the story as if taking that path changed his life, even though both paths were about the same. The lines just prior to the lines quoted are; "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:" I think the poem is more about the path he didn't take than it is about the one he did take. I think the title of the poem indicates this moreover.

He's not being sarcastic, he's being ironic. In context it seems pretty clear his intent is to suggest that any perception of benefiting from following the less-beaten path was mistaken.

Could be one or both of his parents was a fisher or something and it was more practical if they just lived on the boat instead of his parent(s) having to go from their house to the boat every day? Keep in mind that there are people who live in caravans and trailers, so a sailboat's not that much of a stretch.

K Rab you just discovered cracked? Man, I have some bad news for you. About a year ago cracked fired all their good writers and stopped making videos. I would recommend checking out the channel Some More News. It's run by former cracked writers and its a truly excellent channel.

The thing everyone seems to have missed is that centrifugal force is involved in their dilemma. Basically they're swinging around the ship. Clooney is the bucket on a rope your science teacher swung around in school to show you how the water stays in. If you watch the scene a few dozen times you'll notice it. When Clooney reaches the end of his rope, he's still being pulled away by the momentum of the arc.

This comment would probably make a lot more sense if you'd remembered all the words in the first sentence. o__O

But I think the point he's trying to make here is that there appears to be NO elastic motion [no bounce-back, I'm not sure 'elastic' is technically the right word...] when the end of the tether is reached, _before_ the equilibrium state you're describing is established. In your analogy, the bucket would first be given some angular momentum, then the rope would be suddenly lengthened, causing a mess as most of the water re-enters the "gravity-defying" bucket trick equilibrium state. Or something like that? I really want to see experimental evidence now, since I'm pretty sure that would happen with a bucket of water, but that's not exactly the situation in the movie.

May your swords stay sharp! (mysss29) Obviously there is no water in a bucket here so no worry of a spill. ;) Seriously though, go back and watch the scene. Pay close attention to the long shots where you see the line Sandra is holding onto in motion as well. I need to redownload it to watch it myself as a refresher but I believe she's in free-flight away from the ship for the larger portion of the scene until the line begins to slow due to its being wrapped around objects, but due to her angle of momentum not being in a straight line away from the pivot point, a swing is started for her and George. George realizes that his and her weight together due to this swing will be too much and her foot will lose its hold on the line so he cuts his tether. The director could have made it more obvious...Maybe a camera hold on the key line contact points with some sinister music...Something. Ultimately its his fault for not properly emphasizing the rolls angular momentum and centrifugal force play in the scene.

actually if you look at the background during that scene, you can see that they are not swinging around the ship.

+Demonic Muffin ^ Hero figure.

Rekt

Demonic Muffin "I'm guessing they're wrong about everything?" Exaggeration in your argument. Is that really logical of you to do so? "Even if you can just link a handful and a half of sources for what you're referencing as being wrong" What the hell do you mean by this? Is this your first time attempting at making an argument? If you want to make a point or logical argument, you should at least think twice about what you are going to type.

Demonic Muffin You are the quite the dedicated troll. I applaud you on your "effort". Please, write another paragraph with your sarcasm. I'm not even joking here. Seriously, it's quite funny to read.

...that watches the movie.

@@hollacity ...about cars.

His method of escape was based on a real one that happened. It was in another country with different building codes, but it did happen.

+Alex Gregg Must have been a veeeerrrryyy old building. Prisons of that size use 4" services. Cities that service 25,000 don't have mains big enough to crawl through. Being as that it was based in Maine, it's not likely that the service linenwouod be big enough to crawl through. So, still a glaring mistake.

If it was a large pipe, it was probably storm drain, not sewage / waste-water pipe.