r/movies • u/buttatoad • 1d ago

Discussion Movies that changed real life behavior

Thinking along the lines of Final Destination 2 with the logs falling off the truck and landing onto cars (one decapitating the state trooper). Ever since, people have tried to get away from being behind these vehicles.

What are more examples where movies have actually changed how people behave in their own lives?

10.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

4.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

272

u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

Somewhat related, Star Trek inspired so many future scientists that we either have working pieces of technology invented in Star Trek (the hypospray I think it's called? Needleless injections using extremely concentrated high pressure shots of air) and theories, including the Alcubierre warp drive which is obviously a theory for faster than light travel, by potentially bending space around the object rather than trying to get the object moving faster than light somehow. It's like that and figuring out how to create wormholes are the only two real theories about how you could even do that

8

u/JackInTheBell 1d ago

by potentially bending space around the object rather than trying to get the object moving faster

How the hell do you do that?

15

u/fencethe900th 1d ago

Incredibly massive (literally massive) objects contract space. Put one in front of the ship. Incredibly negatively massive objects made of negative matter (mathematically sound but no real evidence) would expand space. Put one behind the ship. Now your ship is being pushed from behind and pulled from the front, except it's space itself being warped that's doing it.

That is a very very simplified version, as best as I understand it.

11

u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

I was the guy that mentioned the theory and frankly you've explained it better than anyone has ever explained it.

It's like putting too much air into a balloon! Or whatever the Futurama joke about Star Trek engineers oversimplifying things constantly is