• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    ·
    2 years ago

    Amazon literally delivers data by snowmobile because putting Zetabytes of info on the back of a physical vehicle and driving it around is faster than sending it on the wire.

    I can't believe that hasn't appeared in a movie yet.

    Boss: "So - I brought you all here and I didn't tell you anything about our next score because it's going to be huge. We're going to hit a snowmobile and the data should be worth tens of millions. At least."

    Muscly guy - the driver: "A snowmobile?"

    Thin-necked guy - in charge of logistics: "It's a shipping crate filled with data. They are moved by truck ."

    Muscly guy - the driver: "I don't get it."

    Then the Boss explains to the driver (and the audience) what's what.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Would be a fun prelude-to-a-bigger-heist scene. Like, they're ostensibly raiding this truck to steal a bunch of credit card numbers. But there's something even more valuable in the truck that only the protagonist knows about. And, on stealing it, the thieves get targeted by a shadowy Deep State counter-intelligence operation.

      Honestly, a fantastic setup for some QAnon-style National Treasure shit.