Once upon a time I was walking around a hospital with my little IV bag on wheels. The bag ran out of liquid water, and blood started to pump up the line and into the bag. I had to lower my arm to stop it.
Once upon a time I was walking around a hospital with my little IV bag on wheels. The bag ran out of liquid water, and blood started to pump up the line and into the bag. I had to lower my arm to stop it.IV's, don't even get me started. The most flagrant violation is when they are backwards. The catheter goes towards the heart, ALWAYS. And then there are the people that rip them out and go running without any bleeding, lol. Try that some time, just for fun. (Seriously, prank your nurse some time.) It's called blood "pressure" for a reason, that stuff will shoot across the room if you let it.
Once upon a time I was walking around a hospital with my little IV bag on wheels. The bag ran out of liquid water, and blood started to pump up the line and into the bag. I had to lower my arm to stop it.
I wish schools showed you how to hook these up and I wish they were sold in drug stores. It's amazing what pumping water through a person can do.I hate IV's. So damn annoying.
Everyone firing hundreds of rounds, including 12 ga in enclosed environments like stairwells, with no hearing protection while carrying on in normal conversation voices and apparently being impervious to hearing damage.
Worst error: People never ever have trouble parking in front of their destination, even when it's a huge office building in the middle of a big city.
IV's, don't even get me started. The most flagrant violation is when they are backwards. The catheter goes towards the heart, ALWAYS. And then there are the people that rip them out and go running without any bleeding, lol. Try that some time, just for fun. (Seriously, prank your nurse some time.) It's called blood "pressure" for a reason, that stuff will shoot across the room if you let it.
On, and on, and on...
Oh, another one on space physics; Stargate and Star Trek were especially bad with this:
When the engines fail for whatever reason, the ship immediately grinds to a halt, as if it's traveling through liquid mercury.
The ships in Star Trek travel by bending space and going through worm holes. Engine failure means you can no longer bend space. The ship basically can't travel anymore.
Using impulse power is like manually rowing a boat when you're in the middle of the ocean. You might as well not even try. The distance between galaxies is measured in light years and using impulse limits you to going less than light speed, so it would take literally years to travel anywhere.Only warp engines. At least their regular impulse engines should work.
Maybe the warp engine is generating a weird gravity field but the shields rely on an electric field. Maybe they got hit by something that is more strongly affected by gravity waves than it is by electromagnetic waves.Oh yeah so my wife and I were watching an episode of Voyager last night. Some energy wave hits them, immediately their engines go down. After it passes, they give a damage report:
"Shields are holding. Minor hull damage to deck 10. No injuries."
Yet their engines failed.
Oh Star Trek.
Using impulse power is like manually rowing a boat when you're in the middle of the ocean. You might as well not even try. The distance between galaxies is measured in light years and using impulse limits you to going less than light speed, so it would take literally years to travel anywhere.
A lot of the time they don't actually show you where the person parked in relation to the building.Also the parking thing I give a pass on because while realistic, that is boring. You just have to let that stuff go for brevity. I suppose you could cut to the scene starting with them saying they had to park in the garage and have them be out of breath, but that would still be a waste of film time really.
Oh and the other thing sci-fi does is it treats space like a plane rather than a three-dimensional field. Ships always fly "upright" and come at each other in the same plane. No one ever goes "above" or "below" other ships, nor do they ever point "up" or "down" in relation to others. Well, it does happen rarely, but most of the time they act like they're in atmosphere.
Using impulse power is like manually rowing a boat when you're in the middle of the ocean. You might as well not even try. The distance between galaxies is measured in light years and using impulse limits you to going less than light speed, so it would take literally years to travel anywhere.
Romans have British accents. And the overuse of British accents in general. Although I admit I'm so used to it in Roman movies, I think I may dislike any attempt to use a different accent.
Not a commonly done thing by any means but in the movie Gamer the main character regurgitates Vodka into a trucks gas tank to fuel it up so he could escape a gaming compound. Seriously one of the most "Are you kidding me" moments I have ever seen in a movie.
Another thing that bugs me is when they show someone taking a pill of some sort and it works instantly. That one especially bugs me because everybody knows that pills take a long time to take effect.