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First Bomb Procedure: Pretty Dumb

posted 17 years ago by arnomation
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In the very beginning of the film Jeff Bridges is called to a bomb in a computer where a woman has to keep typing or the bomb will go off. This woman is not tied down or connected to the computer in any way so how is it possible that they didn't escort her out of the building immediately while a member of the bomb squad (in a protective bomb suit) sat there and kept typing while they tried to defuse the bomb?

It would seem to me that the first thing you would do was get the woman out of there. Pretty dumb way to start off a movie if you're trying to make it at least fairly believable.

[–] jimbaland 17 years ago

Not to mention that bomb was counting down in BYTES.

[–] DylanJ 17 years ago

The bomb supposedly is rigged to explode either when a key isn't pressed for so many seconds or when memory is full.

It's a bit dumb, but it's also quite original, because it provides a semi-valid reason to keep the woman at the desk.

[–] arnomation 17 years ago

It's a bit dumb, but it's also quite original, because it provides a semi-valid reason to keep the woman at the desk.

That's my point. If she's not handcuffed to the desk then the bomb squad's first priority should be to get her out of there and have a member of the bomb squad sit there and type. You don't keep a civilian in mortal danger if they are able to just get up and walk out the door.

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[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 9 years ago

And here is why it is particularly dumb, if you don't leave your brain at home and choose to suspend belief:

When they bring the robot Manfred in and attempt to have it replicate the keystrokes, they actually activate the second keyboard for a few seconds, she starts running away, Manfred's keystrokes screw up, and she runs back to the primary keyboard to continue her dramatic typing until the wire is ultimately cut.

Soooo, if they were able to set up and activate a secondary keyboard, why not set one up with a really long cord, or heck even a wireless keyboard which were in existence way back in 1983 as part of the IBM PCJr, so she (and all of them) could get out beyond the range of danger and yet still keep typing?

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?