Does Denzel read the scripts they give him?
Ok, seriously, another train movie? Cuz Pelham 123 was so good?
But this time it's Unstoppable and he's working with a new kid, Captain Kir... uh, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson is the inexplicably hot train dispatcher concerned about an "unmanned train" loaded with "toxic chemicals" that's going to collide with a train full of "100's of school ( Read more... )
But this time it's Unstoppable and he's working with a new kid, Captain Kir... uh, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson is the inexplicably hot train dispatcher concerned about an "unmanned train" loaded with "toxic chemicals" that's going to collide with a train full of "100's of school ( Read more... )
Frankly, we never left that. Trains hit things all the time. But most train collisions occur IN THE RAIL YARDS. Its newsworthy and unusual for trains to hit things outside of the yard, but it still happens, its a train, it can't swerve. :)
An engineer once told me that for every Kilometer of speed a train is going it needs 50 meters to stop. So, 10km/hr = 500m, 50km/hr = 2500m - and that formula isn't hard and fast, it depends on the number of cars, the weight of the cargo, and if it's got extra engines in the line (that's called a "Mother-slug" when you have an engine in front and one in the middle) and the variables go on and on and on. But the all end with the same thing; the train will slow down and stop on it's own eventually. Bah!
I said to Chris last night, the amount of things that needs to wrong to create a situation where a freight train is out of control would basically require the on-board computer systems to have become self aware. The train would have be the nexus of the singularity. :)
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I recall my brother and friends being chased off the tracks when they were small by the "CN Police" - we small kids had a healthy fear of being caught doing what we were NOT supposed to be doing. :) Grant you, we didn't know about all the dead man switches (I had to mention them again) but we did see how fast the GO, CN, and VIA trains were, how long they were, whether or not they required "Mother-Slug"'s, etc., and we knew they would NOT be able to stop if they saw you and even if they did want to stop the train it would take a lot of distance.
Imagine being the nexus of the singularity and being stuck on the rails? Sure, the rails go a lot of places, but only where there is track laid down. :P
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Reminds me of this:
http://www.angriestricecooker.com/2005/04/04/on-fuzzy-logic-and-its-uses/
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Do not get me started on MANNED subways and MANNED ticket taker booths!
Seriously, we are SO behind the times in locomotive technology! It sickens me!
But any talk of updating or automating any part of the freaking TTC is met with strike threats! Can't threaten those union jobs now!! BAH, BAH I say!
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