This is my kind of safe:
âGame overâ is right.
âYes, yes, thatâs a fucking excellent idea.â â Grover
I randomly found myself re-watching You Only Live Twice, as one does. Pardon if this has been discussed in the previous 3000 posts, but is this a device/technique that that actually exists or is this just one of those gizmos that we shouldnât question too closely?
I like how it resolves the combination into 5 single digit numbers.
that one⌠definitely that one.
Yup. Not quite as ludicrous as the x-ray thingy in Moonraker, though.
OTOH, the device used in On Her Majestyâs Secret Service seems mildly plausible, what with the sheer bulk of it and what seems to be a simple brute force attack of trying out combinations, taking quite some time, which is played out for dramatic effect.
While weâre at it - not a safe, but I always liked how Bishop/Bryce circumvents the door with the code keypad in Sneakers.
This is what attracted my attention. I thought maybe I just didnât understand something about how this stuff works, but I guess my instinct was correct.
LOL, ty my phone was having issues copying the correct thing
Yeah⌠once you start to question these things it quickly falls apartâŚ
My background is in civil engineering and whenever the plot moves to the Evil Mastermindâs secret underground/volcano/whatever lair I catch myself thinking about how you could actually build this, and how long it would take, and how much it would cost and so on. The overburden dump from all those tunnels aloneâŚ
Obviously you want to build your secret base in, say, an existing abandoned salt mine or something, or maybe a decommissioned nuclear missile silo. Then all the excavation costs have been taken care of and you just have to bring in the furniture and the world domination map, install some trap doors, and youâre done.
Too obvious.
But think of the SAVINGS!