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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Re:Then let's test these next by hawguy · 2012-02-23 13:58 · Score: 3, Informative
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.
Mythbusters already busted that middle one. 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.
Google Cache by Chas · 2012-02-23 14:12 · Score: 3, Informative

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zG-BilzlF4UJ:www.overthinkingit.com/2012/02/22/fridge-nuking-scientific-peer-review/%3Fpage%3Dall+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
For those that want a read-through while the server has it's heart ripped out.

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Re:Then let's test these next by tnk1 · 2012-02-23 15:06 · Score: 5, Informative

"JAT stewardess Vesna Vulovi survived a fall of 33,000 feet (10,000 m)[7] on January 26, 1972 when she was aboard JAT Flight 367. The plane was brought down by explosives over Srbská Kamenice in the former Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall
Yes, not a rubber life raft, but it's not impossible to survive dropping out of the sky, just really freaking unlikely. Of course, that woman actually landed in part of the plane, broke her skull and was in a coma for 27 days. Probably not in a mood for serious ass kicking at that point, but she's no Indiana Jones either.
Re:"Rigorous peer review" by jackbird · 2012-02-23 15:19 · Score: 4, Informative

You forgot to include the actual paper, although your comment also appears to state that you haven't actually read it. It's chock-full of bad puns.
Re:Then let's test these next by similar_name · 2012-02-23 15:34 · Score: 3, Informative

Using a life raft to survive a fall from an airplane: mythbusted
Re:What this really means by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-23 15:47 · Score: 1, Informative

Jamie wants BIG boom.
Re:A child died, playing hide and seek by v1 · 2012-02-23 16:45 · Score: 3, Informative

that's not unique. There were enough cases of that exact thing happening that they made a federal law requiring that any non-functioning fridge with a latching door must have the door REMOVED. Deep freezes included.
Not only are they mostly airtight, they're also fairly soundproof. Makes them an effective deathtrap.

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Re:A child died, playing hide and seek by MaskedSlacker · 2012-02-23 17:17 · Score: 3, Informative

Most home refrigerators do not have latches anymore.
Re:Then let's test these next by Evtim · 2012-02-23 17:45 · Score: 4, Informative

The second in the world-record list of "people falling from the sky" is more bizzare. I read it in the "book of general ignorance". The name was Alkemade and he served on a British bomber during WW2 (the name is Dutch though). He fell 6km if I remember correctly by himself (not sitting on the plain chair or something), landed hitting trees and finally snow, had a cigarette and walked away...