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HankB

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Re: White House Down
« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2013, 10:55:42 AM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on June 18, 2013, 02:24:11 PM
. . . All in all it's like disliking Star Trek because superluminal velocities violate known laws of physics.  It's a TV show.
Star Trek was meant to be science fiction, with a story set centuries in the future. So I found it easier to suspend disbelief at Warp 9 starships than it was to see Jack Bauer drive from one end of LA to the other and back in a matter of minutes during rush hour . . . and find convenient on-street parking at both ends.

Oh, and I think the inspiration for the sleazy white-guy president was Nixon, not Bush; he even looked a little like the former.
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Re: White House Down
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2013, 12:22:26 PM »
Quote from: HankB on June 20, 2013, 10:55:42 AM
Star Trek was meant to be science fiction, with a story set centuries in the future. So I found it easier to suspend disbelief at Warp 9 starships than it was to see Jack Bauer drive from one end of LA to the other and back in a matter of minutes during rush hour . . . and find convenient on-street parking at both ends.


It probably would be easier to engineer  a warp-drive starship than drive across L.A. during rush hour..... :rofl:

You're not the first to notice that.  Anyone who's had to navigate any large city would probably wonder how Bauer got where he was going there. 
BUT again it's ONLY a TV show ..... [tinfoil]
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