10 Things I Learned by watching Dr. No.
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pawtrax67 — 11 years ago(July 10, 2014 09:12 PM)
I learned that filmmakers in 1962 had no real understanding how nuclear reactors worked.
A manual wheel control to control the reactor?
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raf-33 — 10 years ago(August 01, 2015 02:03 AM)
Almost every reactor in existence will have a manual control for raising or lowering control rods in case of electrical loss, and it's almost always a wheel.
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Vega_Lyra — 11 years ago(July 31, 2014 10:24 AM)
A hearse can routinely outcorner, outaccelerate, and outhandle a British sports car such as a Sunbeam.
Hearses randomly explode from the passenger compartment when going over a cliff.
There is a large population of Chinese living on Jamaica, particularly those that are half white or half black.
If your covert operation is blown, you typically just leave the cover exposed without removing the radio or other communication equipment.
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SpaceMountainMike — 9 years ago(April 20, 2016 11:07 AM)
There is a large population of Chinese living on Jamaica, particularly those that are half white or half black.
Actually, there are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Jamaicans
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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(April 16, 2016 05:58 PM)
Dr. No's Crab Key HQ has the same interior architect as the Fort Knox vault in Goldfinger.
I know Pinewood is acclaimed for 007, it just makes me smile that the same exact set was used both times with minimal difference.
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thylacine80 — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 02:38 AM)
- If you're a villain and catch a spy who could ruin your world domination plot, don't kill him. Just take him as a prisoner.
- If you take the spy as your prisoner, make sure to put him in a room with a window, so he can easyly escape.
- When you work with a black partner, it is totally natural to ask him to "go and get my shoes".
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EtaoinShrdlu001 — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 02:04 PM)
Re: #7
HA!
That's what I was going to tell the OP of "What a Racist Movie" thread earlier this morning, but I got distracted by a bunch of other nonsense that user has posted.
Possibly the funniest, most anachronistic line in the whole movie.
I think I might have to change my signature.
"Go and fetch my shoes!"
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A_Dude_Named_Dude — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 04:17 PM)
- That the "China Syndrome" is a myth. According to that, if a nuclear reactor goes critical, the core becomes so hot that it burns through the containment vessel and even through the surrounding earth. When it goes far enough down it passes through the water table, and with the crater formed by the super hot core, fills up with ground water. The water is almost instantly turned into super hot steam, which is sent into the atmosphere. The prevailing winds would then carry the radioactive vapor all over the surrounding territory, contaminating thousands of square miles. Given its proximity to the southeastern U.S., millions of people would be killed. Dr. No would get his way - there'd be no more rocket launches, and we'd never go to the Moon. But then, given the economic disaster it would produce, we'd also never get involved in Vietnam. So it wouldn't have been
ALL
bad.
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- That the "China Syndrome" is a myth. According to that, if a nuclear reactor goes critical, the core becomes so hot that it burns through the containment vessel and even through the surrounding earth. When it goes far enough down it passes through the water table, and with the crater formed by the super hot core, fills up with ground water. The water is almost instantly turned into super hot steam, which is sent into the atmosphere. The prevailing winds would then carry the radioactive vapor all over the surrounding territory, contaminating thousands of square miles. Given its proximity to the southeastern U.S., millions of people would be killed. Dr. No would get his way - there'd be no more rocket launches, and we'd never go to the Moon. But then, given the economic disaster it would produce, we'd also never get involved in Vietnam. So it wouldn't have been