• Rolando@lemmy.world
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    Egypt is 1,596 km away from Greece in OUR world. But they’re in a whole new world.

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    I think they just did some camera trick to cut out most of the travel time and not make the movie longer.

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      Exactly. They did the same thing in The Lord of the Rings movie. Rivendell is about 300 miles from the Shire. The hobbits leave the Shire at about 40 minutes in, and arrive in Rivendell roughly 35 minutes later. I’m sure they saved time by not stopping for second breakfast, but that would imply traveling 300/35 = 8.6 miles per minute non-stop with their stubby little legs.

      Or maybe some people complained the movie was already too long (these people are wrong) and didn’t want to watch hobbits walk 300 miles in real time.

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      Now I’m just imagining in every movie or TV show if we had to watch people travel in real time to wherever they were going lol. Sounds painful.

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        Time moves differently during a musical number, anyway. They regularly skip forward to the next scene that can be hours or even days away.

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    Also keep in mind that they witnessed the Great Sphinx being carved- time travel was clearly being used.

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    You’re such a mathematician. Saying something is real because your calculations say its real. Eventhough the evidence that’s right in front of your eyes, clearly shows that they are stil alive and unscathed, they didn’t even appear to have noticed the immense speed that they were traveling.

    Clearly this is the work of aliens with a technology so advanced that our smooth brains can’t even comprehend the math necessary to calculate it. So that explains everything, you’re welcome.

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      Or they’re just about 10 to 20 thousand years in the future which is why Genie can dish out so many 20th century references.

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      Early versions of magic carpets kept arriving with charred piles of ash instead of passengers until they figured that one out.

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    I was going to rip on taking a cartoon too seriously, but then I remembered getting annoyed at superwhy, which is an ABCs show for toddlers. They had an episode where they landed on Saturn, and it was sandy. I had a to give my then 2 year old an impromptu lesson on what a gas giant was and that her favorite show was fucking wrong. I was so irritated that an education show would do that lol.

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      I just assume that it was time dilation due to editing. The actual journey was much longer. Don’t think about it too much cause then you’ll start to wonder how long that song actually is, and then you’ll start to question why anyone randomly breaks out into song to begin with, and how everyone seems to know the lyrics despite being complete strangers.

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      What game are we playing? I feel like i’ve said this while playing starcraft 2 about the tier 1 protoss ranged units (stalkers?).

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    Slightly bigger problem is that those speeds will also rip the atmosphere a new hole, which means not just vaporised carpet and riders, but the area around them as well as the kinetic and thermal energy from phasing through the air at 6 figure speeds is imposed on the surrounding area.

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    In The Pick of Destiny they’re 50 miles from Los Angeles when the cops try to pull them over and the song Car Chase City begins.

    They arrive in LA less than one minute into the song, making their average speed over 3000 miles per hour.

    Given the aerodynamic properties of a Cutlass Supreme, they are both cooked, and countless windows in LA have been shattered by the sonic boom.