It depends where the snakes are, the air temp. is pretty cold, 'cause they're so high, unless you're near the engines.

Yes, but a well-insulated metal tube stuffed full of people will take ages to cool down, even high up.

Planes aren't insulated that well, because it'll get heavy. And they'll want to save place for the engines and other more neccessary equipment.

And you usually aren't allowed to run around in planes, so it'll take longer to build up heat. And it's not stuffed with people 'cause that would be a fire hazard.

Sentynel wrote: Yes, but a well-insulated metal tube stuffed full of people will take ages to cool down, even high up.

Yes, they aren't well insulated. I had a window seat a few weeks ago, and I froze my ass off.

Gliders are worse, I went in one in July, on a bright sunny day and froze 'cause there was a fricken hole above my head.

Planes are well insulated. It's around -60 degrees celcius at the height they fly. You'd freeze to death if they weren't. Note that on most flights, you need the cool air blowing to stop you getting too hot, even on window seats (windows are triple- or even quadruple-glazed on airliners).

The human body generates a lot of heat just sitting around doing nothing.

Planes are most definitely packed full of people. A 777 can have 500 passengers in with a length of 63.7 metres. That's nine people for every metre of length, taking into account the amount of space taken by the cockpit and tail.

They used a 747-400 in the movie. And you're probably right, but it doesn't matter anyways because most of the snakes were CG.

CG snakes are dangerous... :P

Totally. ;) Anyway, there actually IS a way to turn the heat down enough, my friend is really into all mechanical things that fly and he looked it up for me. I'm not exactly sure it works though.

Oh, there's definitely a way. You open the door and throw all the people out. Suddenly you've not got hundreds of people generating heat AND air at -60 is coming in through the door to cool the snakes down. Simple.

But then the open door acts as a vacuum and everyone gets a crash course in paratrooping.

I meant with a thermostat or something. Say, does anyone even know what this movie is actually about?

Luciene wrote: But then the open door acts as a vacuum and everyone gets a crash course in paratrooping.

See the bit where I said "and throw everyone out"? That was the idea.


I'm sure you could cool down the plane enough if you were prepared to wait a few hours for it to do so.