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Howdy Folks,
The wife and I were looking for a flick to watch last night on PPV (pay per view) and came across Pandorum which was a very interesting sci-fi movie.
I was very impressed with the technology in the movie, mainly the emergency power!
In one scene there is no power for a computer station and it seems the engineers foresaw the need for backup power. With a few cranks of a wheel the computer station comes to life.
In another scene a crew member locates the weapon locker which has non-lethal riot weapons. The weapons mount on your wrist and shoot out a pulse. To power the weapon, you must first pump it up a few times to generate enough power.
In many scenes the pumping up of the wrist weapon replaced the racking of the slide on a semi-auto when trouble was near so that Hollywood cliche was still in action.
The movie, IMHO was pretty decent, but what impressed me was that emergency powered equipment!
I sure wish I had some of that power generation technology here on the farm right now!!!
Later,
ZA
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