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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* ''[[Angels & Demons]]'' has a huge gaping hole that not a single character sees. Great care is given to say how undetectable the antimatter containment is. The protagonists even go so far as to wipe out power to entire city blocks so that they can look for the containment device without any background noise. Yet no one thinks to look for the camera pointed at the containment device "that is actively broadcasting". Since they are receiving video, there is a signal. Since there is a signal, it can be triangulated. |
* ''[[Angels & Demons]]'' has a huge gaping hole that not a single character sees. Great care is given to say how undetectable the antimatter containment is. The protagonists even go so far as to wipe out power to entire city blocks so that they can look for the containment device without any background noise. Yet no one thinks to look for the camera pointed at the containment device "that is actively broadcasting". Since they are receiving video, there is a signal. Since there is a signal, it can be triangulated. |
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** Unless the signal is being run through a landline to a remotely sited transmitter, or through relays, or through the Internet, or... |
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* ''[[Left Behind]]'' is full of this, especially in the early books. |
* ''[[Left Behind]]'' is full of this, especially in the early books. |
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** A nuclear assault on Israel ends in no casualties. You'd think that evangelists of every religion would be trying to link it to their own, there would likely be a large amount of conversions, and hard-core atheists would be trying to desperately come up with explanations as to how it could be a natural occurrence. Instead, everyone seems to just go about their business as if it hadn't happened. |
** A nuclear assault on Israel ends in no casualties. You'd think that evangelists of every religion would be trying to link it to their own, there would likely be a large amount of conversions, and hard-core atheists would be trying to desperately come up with explanations as to how it could be a natural occurrence. Instead, everyone seems to just go about their business as if it hadn't happened. |
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