Batman Begins Question about Batman Begins.

[El Payaso]

I'm sorry but the fear gas was big part of the plan. They spent weeks bringing the stuff then putting it in Gotham's water. Why bothering in doing so if all they needed was the emitter to destroy people?

 

[The Only Woj]

When Ra's has it on the train, it isn't running. I'd have to go back and look, but I'm pretty sure the emitter is closed. He fires it once in the Narrows, and the extreme pressure is what causes the manhole covers to blow off in the city. However, that water in the city isn't being evaporated. Only the water in the Narrows, it just so happens that the main feed from the Narrows follows under the path of the train. So there was some evap'd air blowing up from the city, but not nearly as much as there was in the Narrows. The machine is never running inside the monorail ... and after it crashes, it opened up and "fires" ... and it explodes. and it probably explodes because it was fired from within the monorail with all that mangled metal around.

 

[Saint]

I'm sorry but the fear gas was big part of the plan. They spent weeks bringing the stuff then putting it in Gotham's water. Why bothering in doing so if all they needed was the emitter to destroy people?

Um, I think you may have read my previous post too fast. I said using the emitter to roast people would be impractical because it's a focused beam and they would have to march every single person in Gotham under the beam. They would not be able to do that, so they probably never even considered it. The emitter's only potential for widespread damage was in the fear gas plan.

Edit: Oh, you must have become confused when I said "that wasn't the plan." I meant roasting people with the emitter wasn't the plan; I didn't mean that fear gas wasn't the plan. My bad.

 

[Saint]

When Ra's has it on the train, it isn't running. I'd have to go back and look, but I'm pretty sure the emitter is closed. He fires it once in the Narrows, and the extreme pressure is what causes the manhole covers to blow off in the city. However, that water in the city isn't being evaporated. Only the water in the Narrows, it just so happens that the main feed from the Narrows follows under the path of the train. So there was some evap'd air blowing up from the city, but not nearly as much as there was in the Narrows. The machine is never running inside the monorail ... and after it crashes, it opened up and "fires" ... and it explodes. and it probably explodes because it was fired from within the monorail with all that mangled metal around.

I have to disagree; the steam shooting up from the streets follows the train way too closely. The emitter being on at the time is what's causing that.

 

[CConn]

The thing I find the must amusing about this whole debate is there's a HUGE logistical problem with the microwave emitter that no one could explain away. Fortunately, save for a very bright young Romanian woman, no one's realized it yet.

 

[zer00]

heh. romanian sex slave

 

[The Only Woj]

I have to disagree; the steam shooting up from the streets follows the train way too closely. The emitter being on at the time is what's causing that.

True. But then shouldn't much more of Gotham be effected? If firing the machine once took out the entire Narrows, then the machine is going to cause problems for more than just the street the monorail follows. And how close would Ra's really need to be to get the central hub to blow? Why did he have to be right on top of the Wayne building if he can shoot these focused microwaves at it and blow it up, probably from a good distance away? After all, what good is the machine if you have to be right on top of your enemies water supply to use it?

 

[El Payaso]

I got you Saint.

 

[areswar260]

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