Chance is a total nutjob. Which is kind of fun. He's also wicked competant. A little Macguyver-ish. Chi McBride is basically the same character he always is. He might just as well have walked out of the Pie Hole into this show. The Guerrera character was fun, though.
It's very different from the Chris Chance that I remember in the funny books, but I'm going to keep up with it.
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It wasn't so bad, but you do NOT take an old behind bottle of Japanese whiskey and turn it into a molotov cocktail! Dude could have bought some vodka for 5 dollars and used that!
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I reckon... as Alcohol is rather nasty unless it's wimpy sweet wine. But still. That's 900 dollars worth of booze!
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ok, so the show is fun so far, but as an engineer the second episode was driving me nuts...
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Bernoulli would be rolling over in his grave.
1) Air on top of the plane is not moving that much faster than air below (at least not for purposes of putting out a fire). And even that difference is almost exclusively above/below the wings, not the fuselage.
2) The reason for a difference of air speed above/below the wings is the shape of the wings themselves. So if you managed to flip a plane over, the "fast air" would now be below the plane (once again out of reach of the fire).
3) Along with #2 above, when you flip the plane, you're going to lose all lift (the force keeping you flying) and in fact are going to be pushing the plane down, thus very quickly plummeting to your death, not cruising comfortably upside down for a half hour.
4) There is very little chance that the wings of the plane wouldn't have just snapped off doing that maneuver. Those wings are huge and full of fuel, designed just to have their weight applied downward, or in a very limited range of banking angles, not a full 180 degree flip...
sorry, just had to get that out there.
but that being said, I do like the show so far, even if my favorite character is Rorschach, I mean Guererro.
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Wow... I thought I recognized him. Yeah, he's got the "I can kill you with a stare" thing going on here, too.
I don't know much about aeronautics, but even I knew that the upside down thing was a bunch of hooey. But it was so much fun.
Also, I pegged the second person immediately, but that might be because of the actress's role on Dexter this past season. She just "seemed" bad to me because of that.
As far as physics is concerned, did you notice the makeshift parachute brake in the first ep?
But I don't watch these things for the science. I mean, I liked Alias, and I remember the first season where there was a ball of plutonium that (a) didn't poison Sydney and (b) would have set off a nuclear explosion had she accidentally dropped it. Just silly.
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It is a lot of fun, but yeah, the upside down plane trick was pretty silly, though it looked cool on the show. Posts: 315 | Registered: Dec 2005
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