[TAG] Hydrogen fuel (non-Linux)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:31:55PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:43:20AM -0600, Jason Creighton wrote:
> > In movies, a car will explode if you look at it wrong. So I wonder, if
> > hydrogen cars become popular, and it is safer, what will the movie
> > industry do? Could they stand to script a car to fall several hundred
> > feet and *not* explode on contact? 
> 
> Simple.  The cars that will be in car chases will mysteriously all be 
> gasoline cars.  The cars the squares drive will all be hydrogen for some
> strange reason.  Since car chases are a redneck activity anyway, the
> audience won't even notice at first.  Eventually the web bulletin boards
> will start predicting from the first five minutes of the movie which cars
> will be smashed (and thus which characters will be the victims), and *then*
> the movie industry will have to think up something to make it unpredictable.
> 
> One problem will be the police cars.  It's inconceivable that they wouldn't
> switch to hydrogen early to be an example.  But cop cars have to blow
> up spectacularly.  Maybe the director will just arrange for the car to
> always be carrying something volatile when it's about to be smashed.

See my reply to Jason; cars which blow up now, only do it in movies,
rather than in real life -- pity the poor spinal cases dragged out of
cars to avoid the 'inevitable' explosion -- so this won't really affect
movies.

Cheers,
-- jra
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