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I'm a big sci-fi buff, and so is my girlfriend. But, what bugs me to no end in movies set in the future is the lack of nuclear weapons. Yes, my solution to any and all alien menaces is a 20 megaton Welcome-to-Earth greeting card. You'll take a few million civilians out with the them? So what, the aliens/mutants/zombies are about to munch their way across the globe and eat/kill/enslave ALL of humanity. Get over it, it's worth it.
So, this past weekend I finally rent the final Matrix movie, along with the Animatrix anime that chronicles how the war started. They used nukes in the first anime short story, so I'm initially happy. Then problems start to pop up.
Me: How could the robots survive? It doesn't make any sense? We NUKED Zero-One (the robot city, set in the Middle East) when the war began.
Her: The movie explained that. The robots can withstand the radiation and temperature of a nuke, but humans can't, so it backfired on us.
Me: What material could withstand the 1 million degrees temperature generated at the center of a nuclear explosion?
Her: Maybe the robots build materials that could survive it.
Me: Materials strong enough to survive those unbelievable temperatures, yet can still be shot up with conventional machineguns like in the movies? I don't think there are any atomic bonds strong enough to hold together at that temp.
Her: (giving me that angry look, but I'm stupid enough to continue on)
Me: And they're susceptible to an EM pulse in the Matrix trilogy. A nuclear explosion creates the largest man-made EM pulse known. Even if the heat didn't get them, the EM pulse would have.
Her: (eyebrows go up and eyes narrow, should be running for the door but I'm still stuck in stupid-mode)
It got worse from there, we argued, we gave each other the silent treatment for a couple hrs, then we apologized and laughed our asses off about it. I still can't figure out what I was thinking to get so emotional over a movie. Heck, not even a movie, but an anime spin-off of the movie.
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