Re: Unguarded conduits--The unheralded hero of scifi adventure!

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:39:31 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
<kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:11:14 -0800 (PST), Tom <drsoong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>On Jan 22, 6:38 am, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>wrote:
>>
>>>> Time and again, in Star Trek, Stargate, Farscape, Terminator, Aliens,

>>>> etc.,
>>>> the unguarded and unmonitored hallway, the unlocked person-sized air 
>>>> vents, the huge sewer pipes ... if you need to break in, surveil and
/ 
>>>> or break out of a place you need the
>>>>
>>>> UNGUARDED CONDUIT.
>>>>
>>>> Now, it's a staple of nongenre shows, movies and stories, but you'd 
>>>> think inscifi you could space some extra minions, robots, psionic 
>>>> sensors, even  a couple of webcams to guard or at least monitor.
>>>>
>>>> And with Unguarded Conduit is trusty sidekick:
>>>>
>>>> Slow Noisy Distracted Guards.
>>>>
>>>> Our heroes are sneaking into a some super secret ultra lair, the 
>>>> Archvillain
>>>> once in a blue moon actually DOES have guards, but is undone by said 
>>>> guards:
>>>> --taking forever to patrol an area,
>>>> --making enough noise to alert anyone sneaking about from miles away,
>>>> --and even when said guards get the drop on the sneaks lurking about,

>>>> the guards are too distracted by their own conversation or a radio  
>>>> or tv or some magazine or picture book to take notice.
>>
>>>That's a problem I've always had with Stargate SG-1... the team
>>>wanders around Go'auld (sp?) mother ****ps like they own them. Few, if
>>>any, of the critical systems of the ****ps are guarded. How the team
>>>can access the control crystals so easily is often a source of
>>>aggarvation for me.
>>>
>>>The guards always travel in packs. Why not separate and cover more
>>>areas of the ****p?
>>
>> Because packs pack more firepower if you find something.
>>
>> As an aside, as someone who was actually ON a Navy war****p, I can tell
>> you that there were large areas normally not watched constantly.

>Did those areas have human-sized air ducts too them?

Yep.  Not only to them, but in them.  There was ducting all over - it
was a submarine and if there was no ducting, there were no fans and
that meant no airflow and that meant stagnant air and that was BAD.  I
imagine it'd be the same way inside Cheyenne Mountain or on a
sufficiently large (Ha'tak class, anyone?) space****p.
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