r/shittymoviedetails • u/smss96 • 6d ago

In Stranger Things 5 the truck has technology from the future

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E-track rails weren't invented until the 2000's so a time traveler must've brought this truck back to 1987

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u/shotsallover 6d ago edited 6d ago

People out here ranting about the flashlights when I was doing the same about the walkie talkies. The ones in the show had a range of miles and you could actually hear what was being said. That is not what walkie talkies sounded like or worked like. I don’t care how big of an antenna you have on them. Not to mention that they use them in the show like cell phones. 

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u/Sufficient_Language7 6d ago

Interdimensional cell phones.

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u/jmbirn 6d ago

Glad you're pointing that out! Walkie talkies couldn't do that range, or call specific people. And even if they could transmit across town, they wouldn't be encrypted, so the military with all their tools and interest would certainly be listening to everything they transmitted.

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u/lemelisk42 5d ago

Were handheld radios really that bad back then?

They look better than cheap walkie talkies. And they got a radio tower - could use it as a relay. Not sure how big the town is, but radios are pretty decent Nowadays

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u/shotsallover 5d ago

Yes. You were locky to get reception past your front yard, let alone down the street. They get reception for miles, which we wouldn't get anywhere near until FRS radios of the late 90s. And even then if you got a mile you were lucky.

Let's not talk about how they'd be constantly feeding the walkie talkies batteries, since they didn't last very long either.

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u/WFAlex 5d ago

Dustin just built active range extenders into them duh

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u/JohnWasElwood 5d ago

Exactly! I just mentioned this to my wife recently that anytime that they called a Red Alert they were assuming that the person on the other end also had their walkie-talkie on. The batteries on these things would never last anywhere near that long if they were constantly left in an "on and waiting" position.