I think they just did some camera trick to cut out most of the travel time and not make the movie longer.
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Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 years ago
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Exactly. They did the same thing in The Lord of the Rings movie. Rivendell is about 300 miles from the Shire. The hobbits leave the Shire at about 40 minutes in, and arrive in Rivendell roughly 35 minutes later. I’m sure they saved time by not stopping for second breakfast, but that would imply traveling 300/35 = 8.6 miles per minute non-stop with their stubby little legs.
Or maybe some people complained the movie was already too long (these people are wrong) and didn’t want to watch hobbits walk 300 miles in real time.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
This is it frodo. If i take one more step it will be the farthest from the shire ive ever been
dingus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Now I’m just imagining in every movie or TV show if we had to watch people travel in real time to wherever they were going lol. Sounds painful.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
no fast travel run
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Why haven’t my Disney characters not all exploded from how much they don’t go to the bathroom?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
So they were singing on that carpet for hours.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Time moves differently during a musical number, anyway. They regularly skip forward to the next scene that can be hours or even days away.
Phegan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
OP has never heard of a montage
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s the thing where you tie each other up for sexual gratification, right? Like in that Twilight fanfic? 😛
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No. It’s the agreement you sign with a bank when buying a house.
snooggums@midwest.social 2 years ago
Yes
yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Wait… If you both tie each other up, how do you you get out?
fidodo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Do they think movies play in real time? What do they think when there’s a scene change?
shasta@lemm.ee 2 years ago
The camera is jumping to an alternate reality where events happened just a little bit sooner than in the previous universe, but time is constant across universes.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It can’t be a montage if they are singing, unless we assume they skipped verses or repeated the song. Either way, I can tell you from personal experience that singing the same song for hours at a time does not make a good date
xor@infosec.pub 2 years ago
my guess is that a team of people drew it and none of it actually happened…
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
They recorded the singing in post
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 years ago
OP forgot that the magic flying carpet is magic
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And plot armor is the effective heat shield
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
You would think the issue of staying on it would come before the issue of heat
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I prefer to think they just sang the song over and over again on the round trip and the movie just splices it down to one time through the song.
In reality, these tortured souls rode through the frigid sky with no food or sleep for days on end and only the words of “a whole new world” to maintained their sanity. Their love was obviously forged through shared suffering.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Lol just imagine thinking you’re going on a sweet spontaneous date only to realize you’ll be blasted by hurricane force wind for hours
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Also keep in mind that they witnessed the Great Sphinx being carved- time travel was clearly being used.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 years ago
You’re such a mathematician. Saying something is real because your calculations say its real. Eventhough the evidence that’s right in front of your eyes, clearly shows that they are stil alive and unscathed, they didn’t even appear to have noticed the immense speed that they were traveling.
Clearly this is the work of aliens with a technology so advanced that our smooth brains can’t even comprehend the math necessary to calculate it. So that explains everything, you’re welcome.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 years ago
Or they’re just about 10 to 20 thousand years in the future which is why Genie can dish out so many 20th century references.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Uh… It’s called a magic carpet for a reason.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Early versions of magic carpets kept arriving with charred piles of ash instead of passengers until they figured that one out.
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I was going to rip on taking a cartoon too seriously, but then I remembered getting annoyed at superwhy, which is an ABCs show for toddlers. They had an episode where they landed on Saturn, and it was sandy. I had a to give my then 2 year old an impromptu lesson on what a gas giant was and that her favorite show was fucking wrong. I was so irritated that an education show would do that lol.
YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Just land on a moon of Saturn at that point.
Chriszz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Good parent. You can show her this instead: (mostly accurate) m.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1-lbwNJ3c
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 years ago
stanka@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
A Wizard Did It.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Maybe they were just in Vegas the whole time.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I just assume that it was time dilation due to editing. The actual journey was much longer. Don’t think about it too much cause then you’ll start to wonder how long that song actually is, and then you’ll start to question why anyone randomly breaks out into song to begin with, and how everyone seems to know the lyrics despite being complete strangers.
Dragster39@feddit.de 2 years ago
Uhm, and where does he store his shaving utensils on that carpet? Or is he still too young to grow a beard?
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 2 years ago
You didn’t get the message about 5pm practice?
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If Neil degrassi Tyson was like this maybe he’d be a bit more tolerable
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I like that I wasn’t the only person to think of Tyson.
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I dislike that guy so much.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
snooggums@midwest.social 2 years ago
Does Dragonball have a warning about the racist caricatures like old Disney movies?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No no no, he’s a mystical creature that just happens to look like that.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The range on Blink is OP AF.
fishbone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What game are we playing? I feel like i’ve said this while playing starcraft 2 about the tier 1 protoss ranged units (stalkers?).
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Magic Carpet pointing to the first word of its name emphatically
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Car…pet? Oh yeah, because cars are fast. Makes sense now.
Signtist@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Nah, they just did a bunch of takes for the music video.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
You forgot to include the relativistic effects
RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 2 years ago
It’s a magic carpet.
absentbird@lemm.ee 2 years ago
In The Pick of Destiny they’re 50 miles from Los Angeles when the cops try to pull them over. They arrive in LA less than a minute later, making their average speed over 3000 miles per hour. Given the aerodynamic properties of a Cutless Supreme, they are both cooked.
Gleddified@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I certainly hope someone got fired for that blunder
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Slightly bigger problem is that those speeds will also rip the atmodphere a new hole, which means not just vaporised carpet and riders, but the area around them as well as the kinetic and thermal energy from phasing through the air at 6 figure speeds is imposed on the surrounding area.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
So many Greek ruins obliterated by a careless musical number.
MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 2 years ago
(frame shift drive charging)
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 years ago
at 1:48 they’re in Agrabah, a place that doesn’t exist
at 1:59 they’re in Agrabah, a place that doesn’t exist
EF5C_EF5C@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Reminds me of Spy magazine’s analysis of our good friend Santa Claus: snopes.com/…/the-physics-of-santa-and-his-reindee…
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Ptolemy: ‘Am I a joke to you?’
sirico@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Also to make him a prince wouldn’t there have to be a lineage with wars won and lost families created and torn apart.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 2 years ago
The most interesting part is…what constitutes “him”? What if he became a prince by having his DNA from his father replaced?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Aladdin’s exact words were “Genie, I wish for you to make me a prince.” I always assumed that that meant that the wish merely caused a compulsion in the Genie to use his “standard,” non-wish-granting powers to make Aladdin as prince-like as possible. If he’d instead phrased it as “I wish to be a prince” then it would have caused reality to alter to give him a genuine royal lineage.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Relativistic_sex_meme.elf
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well, Egypt isn’t “the world”, is it?
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah but what about the Parker Solar Probe?
Morphit@feddit.uk 2 years ago
That’s supposed to be travelling at 153,545 mph, so not even half the speed of Aladdin and Jasmine. Also, the Parker Solar Probe is in space.
rapechildren@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
Rolando@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Egypt is 1,596 km away from Greece in OUR world. But they’re in a whole new world.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Aaaaahahahaha i must tell you, this brightened my day. Good one