Movie Makers Keep Getting It Wrong
We watched The 5th Wave last weekend.
The first wave is global knockout of all electronics a la The Day The Earth Stood Still, causing airplanes to fall out of the sky (among other things, like massive car crashes, bye-bye general infrastructure, and adios clean drinking water).
My gripe: airplanes wouldn't fall out of the sky like that.
Helicopters, sure, but not airplanes.
They might still have a hard time landing, or not have anywhere to land and crash into mountains and oceans, but they wouldn't FALL.
It doesn't work like that.
The first wave is global knockout of all electronics a la The Day The Earth Stood Still, causing airplanes to fall out of the sky (among other things, like massive car crashes, bye-bye general infrastructure, and adios clean drinking water).
My gripe: airplanes wouldn't fall out of the sky like that.
Helicopters, sure, but not airplanes.
They might still have a hard time landing, or not have anywhere to land and crash into mountains and oceans, but they wouldn't FALL.
It doesn't work like that.