Goldeneye

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Great Bond movie. All kinds of crazy technology, some improbable, but most of it has some basis in reality. I do wonder about the golden gem mounted in a frame that is apparently needed to send the fire command to the Goldeneye satellite.  Now with all the complicated stuff I've learned about since then, I wonder if you could somehow encode a passcode in the gem, a passcode that can be extracted using a relatively simple scanner. Convoluted and cumbersome, but then people are always dreaming up complicated and cumbersome procedures. Still, haven't heard of anyone encoding anything in oversize gemstones, but you know what they say about the Internet - if you can imagine it someone has already done it.

Somewhere in the middle of the movie, Bond and Natalya, the Bond girl, are arrested by the Soviet military and taken to a prison in Moscow. The big, bad villain shows up during their interrogation and shoots the interrogators. Bond uses the ensuing chaos to escape. He picks up an AK-47 from a dead guard and then he and the girl are running for their lives, down the halls, around corners and through doors. Simultaneously he is engaged in a running firefight with Soviet soldiers. He is mowing them down like ten pins. And then he steals a tank. 

But let's stop for a minute before we run off into the wonderful tank fantasy, let's stop and count the number of rounds he fired while running through the halls of the prison. I mean, he fired a bunch. A banana clip for AK-47 holds 30 rounds. I am pretty sure he fired more than 30 rounds. He could easily have picked up another magazine along the way, I mean the hallways are littered with dead Soviet soldiers, but how many magazines would he have needed? Did he fire 20 rounds or 200? Or was it two thousand? Enquiring minds want to know. Now I could go back and rewatch that scene and count the number of shots fired, but then I got an idea. Let's ask ChatGPT, so I did:

User

In the movie Goldeneye, how many shots from his AK-47 did James Bond fire during his escape from the Russian prison in Moscow?

ChatGPT

In the movie "GoldenEye," during James Bond's escape from the Russian prison in Moscow, he uses an AK-74 assault rifle. Bond fires a total of 76 shots from the AK-74 during this action-packed sequence. This moment is part of the larger escape scene that involves the use of different weapons, including the tank, making it one of the memorable action sequences in the film.

And there you go. More useless information supposed to fire my imagination. 

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