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Kenshin_elite

Kenshin_elite

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DisneyCane said:
Or walking through the parking lot. I'd bet if one person calls 911 from the middle of the TTC lot and another person calls 911 right after the gondola leaves the station, the EMT won't reach the person in the parking lot any faster.

If anybody thinks riding the gondola is a risk, take a hike in a national park. Good luck if you have an emergency and there is no cell service (as there usually isn't). Same driving some very rural highways out west.
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Or that you'll be in one during those pesky surprise hurricanes that pop up around Florida that looking at the weather channel doesnt warn you of.

In fact can we just go ahead and say if you're worried about heat, bad storms, wind, and just the weather then maybe don't ride it when the weather's doing those things?
 
rle4lunch

rle4lunch

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larryz said:
So, laser-firing wrist watches, Aston-Martins with ejection seats, spaceship-swallowing spaceships, rocket bases in extinct volcanoes, and hijacked nuclear bombers didn't faze you?
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Indeed. Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan 007's were definitely the cheesiest out of them all. They're like watching the 1960s Batman movie compared to The Dark Knight (For Your Eyes Only vs. Casino Royale).
 
larryz

larryz

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Lensman said:
Edited to add: Here's a fascinating look at this incident. Hurts even more to know that there was a KH-7 sitting on top of this, according to the comments to the article that correct and expand on the article itself.

The Space Review: Not a bang, but a whimper

www.thespacereview.com
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Well, if you want to see an actual KH-7, I know a museum that has one you can look at.

Now back to our regularly scheduled thread...
 
allgiggles

allgiggles

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DisneyCane said:
Or walking through the parking lot. I'd bet if one person calls 911 from the middle of the TTC lot and another person calls 911 right after the gondola leaves the station, the EMT won't reach the person in the parking lot any faster.

If anybody thinks riding the gondola is a risk, take a hike in a national park. Good luck if you have an emergency and there is no cell service (as there usually isn't). Same driving some very rural highways out west.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. We drove through Arkansas a few months ago and went for long stretches (10-15 minutes) with no cell service (AT&T and TMobile). And there was basically nothing but fields and farm equipment -- no houses or businesses -- during those stretches as well. I was having anxiety attacks worrying about how we would get help if we had an emergency in one of those zones. I'd much rather be calling 911 from a gondola at Disney World.
 
skyphotographer

skyphotographer

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allgiggles said:
That's exactly what I was thinking. We drove through Arkansas a few months ago and went for long stretches (10-15 minutes) with no cell service (AT&T and TMobile). And there was basically nothing but fields and farm equipment -- no houses or businesses -- during those stretches as well. I was having anxiety attacks worrying about how we would get help if we had an emergency in one of those zones. I'd much rather be calling 911 from a gondola at Disney World.
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There was a time before cell service existed. People traveled. Nobody panicked.
 
Incomudro

Incomudro

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larryz said:
So, laser-firing wrist watches, Aston-Martins with ejection seats, spaceship-swallowing spaceships, rocket bases in extinct volcanoes, and hijacked nuclear bombers didn't faze you?
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All more plausible and effective than a man with metal teeth.
The idea that technology and innovation - along with the suspension of belief required for movies - allowed for those things.
A man with metal teeth?
What the heck was that going to do?
Less effective than a guy carrying bolt cutters.
 
allgiggles

allgiggles

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skyphotographer said:
There was a time before cell service existed. People traveled. Nobody panicked.
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Oh believe me, I panicked when we did long road trips way before cell phones existed. My aunt and uncle lived in the middle of nowhere. When we would visit them (a few times a year) we would drive about 45 minutes on hideously narrow, windy, pot hole filled roads without seeing another car and very few houses along the way. I was always a nervous wreck from the time we turned off the highway until we turned in their driveway nearly an hour later. This isn't something new for me.
 

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