Actually, since right triangles are the only ones that HAVE hypotenuses, I believe this is true. It doesn’t cover all right triangles, just the ones that are both right and isoceles (45-45-90) but it IS accurate.
It is not so much a plot hole but a nitpick:
In the opening of Lethal Weapon when the hooker jumps out the hi rise window and lands perfectly on some schlub’s car. She isn’t bloodied or grossly splayed out at all.
That bugged me so much when I first saw it, after laughing out loud in the crowded theater, I nearly left the show.
Has anyone considered that the Scarecrow said it that way because it was funny?
I actually misquoted the line. It should be:
“The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.”
“That’s a right triangle, you idiot.”
“D’OH!”
And a worksheet from people who are smarter than I am, not to mention smarter than the Scarecrow and Homer (but then again, I think most people are smarter than Homer.)
Somehow I doubt that adding a couple of neutrons makes it solid. And golden. And fluorsecent.
There’s a rather famous picture from Life magazine which was taken back in the 30s of a woman who jumped from the Empire State Building and landed on a car. The roof of the car was collapsed, but the woman’s body appeared to be unscathed in the photo.
Lost Souls:
The movie begins by quoting Deuteronomy Book 17. There is no Deuteronomy book 17. There is a chapter 17 of Deuteronomy, but it talks about legal and civil matters, not about the anti-christ being born of incest and turing to Satan at the age of 33, as the movie claimed. They just made it up. Also, the sign that the guy is the beat-to-be is that he dreams the letters XES, which is ‘sex’ backwards, and that these are the Greek numerals for ‘666.’ That’s wrong. The writers saw the Greek letter xi and thought it was the Roman letter ‘e.’ It can’t be that the guy just misinterpreted it, because the Forces of Evil make the same mistake in spite of the fact that they would have necessarily known better if they were the ones who were in charge of making that connection, and they were clearly drawing capitol ‘e’ and not the Greek letter xi. Furthermore, that’s not how the numerology works – you are supposed to count the numerals in the person’s actual name and see if it adds up to 666, not ask the guy if he’s had any weird dreams with XES in them.
Stargate:
They decode these artifacts as space coordinates, eight to form a cube, defining the center as the actual point in question, and one to define the destination. Horseshit. It takes three points of reference to triangulate location in three dimensions, and even if it took eight, how come the destination didn’t require eight? No, they wanted the number to come out to nine, and they didn’t even bother to ask if it made any sense.
Alien vs. Predator
The guy says, “The Mayan calendar was based on a decimal system.” Buh?
In the West Wing episode where the Russians have a missile leaking fuel in its silo, the missile is referred to as an SS-19, but the fuel is listed as “liquid hydrogen.” The SS-19 uses unsymmetrical di-methyl hydrazine (UDMH) and nitrogen tetroxide as its fuel and oxidizer. Cryogenic fuels like liquid hydrogen are never used on ICBMs anymore, because they would require far too much maintenance.
Come on, guys, it isn’t brain surgery! 
More nit-picky:
Daniel says in his presentation that it only requires six coordinates in space to define a point (yes, I know it’s only three, but that’s what he says), not eight. He gets excited at the end when he discovers the symbol identifying the slave planet for the origin, calling it the “seventh symbol”, not the ninth. So I’m not sure what you’re talking about, unless it’s the series. I’ve only ever seen the movie (too many times :p)
May, 1947. She was a bookkeeper in Midtown whose sailor fiance broke their engagement. Very sad, but you really have to admire her dismount.
Bah.
Even if it was, so what? Something is going to happen every 10 minutes? That’s 600 seconds. What does THAT have to do with multiples of 10?
Arrrrgh.
-joe
Die Hard 2 - it had to come up again? Dopiest plot in all of recorded history. The terrorists would have had to know well in advance that there was going to be a tremendous airport closing blizzard at the same time the guy with all the acne scars was being transported. Did they infiltrate someone into the Weather Channel?
Heck, I love their getaway plan; demand a 747 (which could easily be shot down by the crappiest most obsolete fighter in Air Force), take off in the same storm that snarling traffic and use as your pilot the same guy you’re busting out of stir.
We really ought to devote a thread to this one.
None of this changes the fact that DH II was my favourite of the triology, and one of my favourite actioners of all time. I found it enjoyable and enthralling - like Springer entertainment but with more gloss.
trilogy.
My spelling is as good as thier plot.
Tuckerfan and Eve, That is bizarrely awesome. It could only be made more perfect if it were her ex-fiance’s car.
Creepy.
That’s not the pic I’m familiar with, but it certainly proves the point. The one I saw appeared to be taken across the street and had several passersby staring at the crumpled car and the woman.
Someone just started a thread about Used Cars. It’s about two rival used-car lots. Sleazy, manipulative Kurt Russell (the good guy) tells the new manager not to use any actual facts when she starts doing their TV commercials (use words like “gajillion” that don’t mean anything), because the sleazier guys from the other lot will bust them on a truth-in-advertising claim. But she accidentally says that they have “a mile of used cars”, and so the race is on. They get the driver’s ed class from the local high school to pack the lot with every clunker and wreck they can get their hands on. The authorities are measuring the cars, and it’s going to be very, very close.
If they’d have measured the cars diagonally they’d have made it easily.
There was a really bad cop show on TV a while back called “Houston Knights”. We used to watch it and laugh our butts off on the scenery changes in the background, where it was obvious that they had reshot a line or two in an exchange. We’d see the cops driving on the Eastex Freeway, for instance, then as the POV switches back and forth as they speak, all of a sudden they would be down on the Gulf Freeway, then back on Eastex, etc.
Fastest moving damn Jeep I ever saw! 