For a quick 25-minute morality play, it was not that bad, as long as you did not look too deep at the situation.
They stole $1 Million in gold bullion. Assuming $35/troy oz, that is about 2040 pounds. The standard bar of gold is 12.4Kg, or 27.28 pounds, so their haul is about 75 bars of gold. The inverse is that each bar is worth about $13,333 at the time they stole them.
Easily moved in one motor vehicle, but rather difficult to move it all on one's back.
So here is where reality begins to rear its ugly head.
Assuming you are the two remaining crooks, how much are you going to walk through the desert with?
Then there are the questions: 1) they stole $1 Million.
How much did it cost to make the knockout gas, and the suspended animation chambers? It costs money to steal that much money, and get away with it.
2) You plan to "sleep" for 100 years.
Has anybody really looked at what various materials look like after 100 years?
You might want to consider an older vehicle with NO solid-state electronics. While tubes might survive, the capacitors in the radio probably would not.
Would the various bearings, such as the wheel bearings and the starter bearings still work, or would the metal pieces stick together after that long of a time? Not to mention the engine bearings and rings.
Note, there are ways to do long-term storage of a vehicle, but it usually requires partial disassembly and special preservatives.
Any natural rubber would be long gone, but the tires might survive if the truck was on blocks. They likely would still need to be inflated, as most/all of the air would have leaked out. I still would not want to drive very far or fast on them.
As for batteries, I think lead-acid might survive, but would need to be recharged. I think they had solar cells that could be used, if they had a charger that survived.
3) water storage
No plastic, but glass or stainless steel containers. I bought two 2.5Gal in the standard #2 HDPE plastic jugs as an "emergency" supply. They did not last five years before the water had leaked out.
And then why the rush to leave once they woke up?
And leave during the day? They had to have know approximately where they were, and how far to what hopefully was a still-existing road. No maps (acid-free paper, of course)?
Fortunately, the episode is short enough and paced well enough that you don't consider questions like these while watching it.
They stole $1 Million in gold bullion. Assuming $35/troy oz, that is about 2040 pounds. The standard bar of gold is 12.4Kg, or 27.28 pounds, so their haul is about 75 bars of gold. The inverse is that each bar is worth about $13,333 at the time they stole them.
Easily moved in one motor vehicle, but rather difficult to move it all on one's back.
So here is where reality begins to rear its ugly head.
Assuming you are the two remaining crooks, how much are you going to walk through the desert with?
Then there are the questions: 1) they stole $1 Million.
How much did it cost to make the knockout gas, and the suspended animation chambers? It costs money to steal that much money, and get away with it.
2) You plan to "sleep" for 100 years.
Has anybody really looked at what various materials look like after 100 years?
You might want to consider an older vehicle with NO solid-state electronics. While tubes might survive, the capacitors in the radio probably would not.
Would the various bearings, such as the wheel bearings and the starter bearings still work, or would the metal pieces stick together after that long of a time? Not to mention the engine bearings and rings.
Note, there are ways to do long-term storage of a vehicle, but it usually requires partial disassembly and special preservatives.
Any natural rubber would be long gone, but the tires might survive if the truck was on blocks. They likely would still need to be inflated, as most/all of the air would have leaked out. I still would not want to drive very far or fast on them.
As for batteries, I think lead-acid might survive, but would need to be recharged. I think they had solar cells that could be used, if they had a charger that survived.
3) water storage
No plastic, but glass or stainless steel containers. I bought two 2.5Gal in the standard #2 HDPE plastic jugs as an "emergency" supply. They did not last five years before the water had leaked out.
And then why the rush to leave once they woke up?
And leave during the day? They had to have know approximately where they were, and how far to what hopefully was a still-existing road. No maps (acid-free paper, of course)?
Fortunately, the episode is short enough and paced well enough that you don't consider questions like these while watching it.