Re: Why Walter Peck was wrong?
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:14 pm
Thank you.TrueMetis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:00 pmNo it wasn't. Nowhere is it ever suggested the containment unit is nuclear powered. If it was, what Peck did was even dumber, cause you can't just flip a switch and shut down a nuclear reactor. There's a procedure, and it takes time and experts to decommission a nuclear reactor.Keyser94 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:57 pmMaybe because it was a nuclear powered containment unit? That no one oversee and that could be a danger to the city? It pretty sensible why he shut it down. Who wouldn't do that when you have such dangerous device in the middle of Manhattan? Also, as mention countless times before, even that this movie is about ghost, they never acknowledge the consequences of such idea in the social spectrum. Because the director was such a right-winger didnt want to offend his precious Christian religion, imagine that, there is life after death, but is no paradise, you are stuck in this Earth even after you die wondering eternally doing the same thing, over and over, until some guys capture you against your will and put you in a prison for the only crime of being stuck in limbo forever. But the movies never acknowledge that, is all fun and games, until you think about it.TrueMetis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:43 amDon't know the details well enough to know that there's a difference between a particle accelerator and a nuclear reactor. Again dude, the proton packs, that's *proton* pack there's a hint in the name, are not nuclear reactors.Keyser94 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:23 pmI watched tons of times when I was a kid, both movies in fact, but now that I know the details, I not see the Ghostbusters are underdogs victims of the system, not when they have such powerful and unregulated weapons and basically nuclear reactor in their base, Beck is not the mindless idiot, he actually had valid reasons for his actions the movie treat him like a clown. And all comes to the background to this movie, to the ideology of the director, that he even admit it himself, loved Reagan policies, this is basically Law Abiding Citizen, great if you turn off your brain and not think about the details, that our hero is basically a cold blooded killer that killed some tugs when white collar crime, mostly bank executives kicking down grandmas of their own houses for a penny is the most common crime in the U. S., not petty crime, that is actually going low, and also there is the cherry on top that our beloved vigilante killer worked for the CIA. And never the less that make it justified his actions? Make justified that the District Attorney not make more deals with petty criminals? What about the banks that rob people of their homes, their work and their lives, that basically committed fraud and get away with it? They also wont have a deal?Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 10:51 pmThat is an interesting point, plus something else that needs to be mentioned is that we see them crossing the streams that blast probably would have blow up a small building at worst, at best the room they happen to be in.Robovski wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:45 pm The proton pack is a particle accelerator, it somehow (SCIENCE!) strips electrons from protons to fire a proton stream controlled by the "wand". The containment unit uses a laser confinement grid which is drawing power from Con Edison to operate. How dare the Ghostbusters use and pay for electricity to run lasers!
Of the two I am way more concerned about the proton pack, it fires a ionizing ray of nuclear particles that is not confined and is probably very hazardous to fire at people. We can see the property damage that being hit by the stream can cause. It is possible that they contain nuclear materials, which is a contamination hazard, but in that event they are likely more of a risk to the people wearing them than anyone else; radiation follows the inverse square law.
Are they dangerous? Sure, but Peck never goes after them. He fucks with the containment unit which by his own reasoning about why he's there he has no reason to care about.
Like who wouldn't shut it down when it's in the middle of Manhattan? Me, cause I know what happens when you improperly shut down a nuclear reactor. (hint it fucking explodes radioactive isotopes don't have an off switch)