Quicksand in movies
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In reality, there’s no rule about how many phone calls you can make while in police custody. We’re not sure if scriptwriters aren’t arrested that often or if they don’t use Google a lot, but many movies and TV shows portray suspects getting one phone call when they’re arrested. ĥ You Don’t Always Get One Phone Call On Arrest If movies were to accurately portray that, they would end up with unintentionally hilarious scenes of shooters getting knocked back along with their victims. That’s true for all guns regardless of their type and caliber. In reality, if a gun were able to do that, it would exert an equal amount of force on the shooter. Gunshots in movies are often enough to knock someone back, which sounds intuitive as bullets have a large amount of momentum. However, it propagates a faulty idea of how guns are supposed to work, which is never a good thing. We’d probably let this one slide a bit as it does look quite dramatic and awesome on-screen. The meteor itself stays as cold as it was before entering the atmosphere. The burning trail we see in the sky surrounding the meteor is the air catching fire around it.
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If you know anything about space, then you realize that meteors are actually freezing cold in nature. Still, this one shows up in many films that have been made on the subject, with the worst culprit being Deep Impact.Īlthough we think that all meteors that make it to Earth’s surface are seething hot and burning, most aren’t big enough to cause a global problem. Movies about meteors crashing into Earth and causing an apocalypse are rarer now than the time preceding the 2012 end-time scare. Just see any real video of a cop making an arrest and you’ll know what we’re talking about. Your Miranda rights are usually read to you after they’ve taken you into custody and are preparing for the interrogation-or at some other point during the arrest. But that’s not the case.Īlthough it’s true that cops have to read you your rights at some point after you’re arrested, it’s almost never done at the time they handcuff you. For the people who’ve never been arrested in real life, this may seem like the way they do it. Whenever an arrest is made in TV shows or movies-at least the ones based in the US-the cops always make it a point to read a Miranda warning (“you have the right to remain silent,” etc.) to the unlucky suspect. Ĩ Cops Don’t Have To Read You Rights While Handcuffing You However, thanks to Jurassic Park, the myth refuses to die out. It’s so widely believed that a team of researchers had to conduct a study to debunk it. But that’s only because the mammoth existed a lot more recently than dinosaurs. Sure, we can probably hope to obtain, say, mammoth DNA trapped in Siberian ice. While DNA can survive in certain mediums, it certainly can’t stay long enough for us to still have dinosaur DNA. Thanks to that movie, we think that DNA can survive over millennia if it’s preserved in amber (or any other type of rock) and can be used to revive prehistoric animals if needed. Even if this one is too specific to show up in many movies (as we’ve only see it in Jurassic Park), enough people believe it for us to include it here.