Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review

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Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 23, 2012 @01:40PM from the leave-Indiana-alone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "George Lucas claims there was 'a 50/50 chance' Indiana Jones could survive the atomic blast in Legend of the Crystal Skull by hiding inside a refrigerator. Dr. David Shechner subjects this claim to rigorous peer review, and his findings are not good news for people looking to hide from nukes in appliances."

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What this really means by Manuka · 2012-02-23 13:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Is that he denied the Mythbusters a chance to go nuclear.
1. Re:What this really means by Manuka · 2012-02-23 14:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm sure they can find some small pacific atoll that nobody wants anymore. Maybe do it in conjunction with Shark Week. Maybe you can jump sharks AND hide in fridges all at once.
Then let's test these next by davidbrit2 · 2012-02-23 13:47 · Score: 5, Funny
1. Ripping out a man's heart without killing him.
2. Jumping from a plane using an air raft.
3. Keeping an immortal knight in a subterranean cavern for thousands of years.
Or, how about just shut up and watch the movie.
1. Re:Then let's test these next by Alotau · 2012-02-23 14:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one, though I'm not sure PETA will appreciate them testing on live animals.
  
  Simple, use politicians and lawyers. I think to be certain we need to try it on at least 10 thousand.
  Your subjects are flawed... one needs a heart in the first place to have it ripped out.
2. Re:Then let's test these next by Kozz · 2012-02-23 15:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ... whereas the fourth movie completely obliterated it.
  Wait... there was a fourth movie?!
  
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  I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
This sounds like something made for TV.. by rykin · 2012-02-23 13:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Peer review? This is a job for the Mythbusters!
Let's see, we have a fridge, now we just need a nuclear testing facility!
Refrigerator is just a disguise by rush,overlord,rush! · 2012-02-23 14:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually it's the TARDIS, and Indiana Jones is just another alias of Dr. Who. Of course he will survive.
No Problem by NicknamesAreStupid · 2012-02-23 14:30 · Score: 5, Funny

It would be almost certain that Ford would survive a movie nuke in a prop refrigerator. Union rules specify that prop 1940s refrigerators weigh enough to require an entire crew to move. It was probably made of depleted uranium. As for the nuke, it was no more than 450 teraflops due to FX budget constraints. It takes at least an petaflop to kill an A-list movie star, and that is contractually stipulated.
Re:George Lucas. by bronney · 2012-02-23 14:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't run from a nuclelar detonation, you'll die tired.
Re:Trauma by oodaloop · 2012-02-23 15:38 · Score: 5, Funny

I think Indiana Jones was only immortal while he was in that temple. In the Young Indiana Jones serial in the '80s, he was depicted with...OMG I'm such a dork.

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Re:"Rigorous peer review" by silverspell · 2012-02-23 19:13 · Score: 5, Funny

The paper ignores other sci-fi contructs like wormholes and hyperspace, which are considered Bantha poodoo.
By whom? Many of the top minds in astrophysics consider those areas of research to be entirely valid.
"We have top minds working on it now."

"Who?"

"Top. Minds."