Could Indiana Jones survive a nuke in a fridge?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The “nuke the fridge” scene from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is considered to be one of the most ridiculous moments in the whole franchise, but parts of it are actually scientifically accurate. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull catches up with Indy circa the Cold War as he races Soviet forces to uncover an ancient artifact with ties to extraterrestrial life.
There are a few ludicrous sequences in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indy’s estranged son Mutt Williams swings through the jungle like Tarzan, backed up by an army of CG monkeys, and the big finale sees a flying saucer returning to outer space. But no scene is more widely ridiculed than the scene in which Indy escapes from a nuclear blast by riding it out inside a fridge. The term “nuking the fridge” was coined as an alternative to “jumping the shark.
A study by Overthinking It listed all the ways that Dr. Jones should’ve perished when he was launched through the air inside a fridge: suffocation, lethal acceleration, crushed under the shockwave, crushed on re-entry, scorched by molten lead, scorched by incendiary air. This study determined that for the fridge to be accelerated by the blast to the speed seen in the film, it would have to be so close to the detonation point to be instantly obliterated.
What Indiana Jones' Nuke Explosion Actually Gets Right While the notion of surviving the explosion in a fridge is wildly unrealistic, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does get some things right in its depiction of the explosion itself. Nuclear weapons physicist Greg Spriggs gave the scene a three out of 10 rating for accuracy.
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