Re: 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:05:00 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
<keithnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:48:09 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"

Looking at the systems of an F-14 wouldnt let you crack the
weapons system of a warship.

You've no idea how integrated the two systems were.

I am an engineer, if it were necessary for integration
to be done one of the high priorities would be a firewall

In your mindset...

Recall that the
scoutship had powered up in response to the approach of the mothership
and was guided in by automatic control once they got to the
mothership. Something tells me that an F-14 at Miramar wouldn't have
powered up when a carrier approached the harbor.

Autoland systems exists ,

And they work from the plane, with the ground systems providing
spatial signals. What you saw in the movie was initiated from the
mothership.

access to them doesnt allow you
to control the airfield systems.

Which they didn't do. They just uploaded a piece of data.

but the idea that such an advanced civilization

I would hesitate to call them "advanced." They were plunderers. They
may have had no idea how the stuff worked.

Any society that has mastered interstellar travel and has workable
force fields is by definition technologically advanced.

Can you drive a car? And, yet, most people who can couldn't build a
new one.

Without the facilities to maintain them and a supply of
spares they dont keep running for long.

Again, you have no idea how rugged or reliable the systems are.

I may not
know how to build a car but plenty of people in our
civilzation do.

Which is, again, irrelevant.

would not have a firewall was plain daft.

And, yet, there are thousands of Earth computers without firewalls
being controlled by spambots and worse more than ten years after ID.

But damn few used in reatime applications

Again, they were "freebooters." They didn't need to know how it
worked, it just had to work.

So what, whoever built it would be sufficiently advanced to
spot the need for a firewall.

Perhaps they didn't have beings trying to hack their systems? Perhaps
there *were* firewalls that have failed in the interim since the ID
aliens took over? *You* don't know.

Larry Niven has something to say about that kind of thing...
--
"The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think
as well as you do, but differently."
- Laurence VanCott Niven
.

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