SyntaxVorlon wrote:I saw the trailer, looks like it would be crap with or without the consent of Geophysicists. I think I will do that next time I go to movie and they have said trailer.
Gov't Guy: "...We'll literally cook our planet."
Science Guy: "After that it gets bad."
Military Guy: "So... how do we fix it?"
Science Guy: "We can't..."
Gov't Guy: "What if we could."
*Pause*
Science Guy: "Why, of course! I forgot that this was a Hollywood production by studio Retard! Now all we need is a token black guy, some comic relief in the form of a mad scientist who, for some inexplicable reason, spent most his life working on a subterranean vehicle to carry nukes to the core of the planet and we're all set. Nope, wait, sex appeal. Gimme some babes we haven't heard of before and hope their inept acting is overshadowed by their gorgeous bodies."
Gov't Guy: "Wha..."
Science Guy: "Shut the fuck up you total imbecile! Don't you get it? When faced with an Armageddon, excuse the pun, level event every dipshit in America is going to think that in reality we CAN send shuttles up to blow giant rocks up. We CAN dig to the centre of the planet and start that good ol' American core up and save the world before teatime. Why? Because this is Hollywood and America; where intelligent media is mutually exclusive. I'm going to shut-up soon; I feel that I have been typecast into the macho yet still somewhat brainy position of lead character. ALL geologists come in Arnie ass kicking power. And before I leave, what in the name of phantom Jesus was the military doing playing around with earthquake weapons?! Have you all forgot about strategic bombers or have you asked the Pentagon to give you a new toy every month to justify your over inflated budget?
*Storms out of door and slams it behind him*
Gov't Guy: "Well that went well. Now what? We need a main character now!"
The Voices of Berman and Braga: "Leave it to us..."
FADE TO BLACK
I just need to say that if any of you work in a movie theater and can fuck with the sound system so that it plays this instead of the actual sound track to the trailer, I will do everything in my power to get you nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Fuck, you could probably get into multiple catagories for that. Aye, Literature, Economics, Physics...
On a side note, the convection currents that are produced within the inner areas of the planet near the core are what really make the magnetic fields through electrical interaction. The heat down there is far in excess of 1400K which is IIRC the highest temperature that Iron can hold its magnetic field before the electron orbits are messed up.
So really it is the stuff around the core, not the core itself which is solid due to the intense pressure, I think anyway.
But that's arguing in the name of science, the same concept that films like this ignore much like an obese junk food obsessive ignores diets.
Admiral Valdemar wrote:On a side note, the convection currents that are produced within the inner areas of the planet near the core are what really make the magnetic fields through electrical interaction. The heat down there is far in excess of 1400K which is IIRC the highest temperature that Iron can hold its magnetic field before the electron orbits are messed up.
So really it is the stuff around the core, not the core itself which is solid due to the intense pressure, I think anyway.
But that's arguing in the name of science, the same concept that films like this ignore much like an obese junk food obsessive ignores diets.
Actually what you spoke about is what we geologist would call the outer core, which is molten. The inner core is solid as you said. Both outer and inner core are composed of a nickel iron alloy. The mantle (which is allso subdivied) is now thought to be solid, but moves in a sluggish solid/state convection. The Manlte has two main components the asthenodshere and the lithosphere. The asthenosphere is the part which undergoes solid state convection. The litosphere is attached to the crust. The boundary between the lithosphere and the astebosphere is partially melted, this is what the continental plates slide across. This mostly theorised from the behavior of seismic waves throught the Earth.
Here endeth the geology lecture.
Anyway the movie looks crap, with no fucking idea about science.
Admiral Valdemar wrote:On a side note, the convection currents that are produced within the inner areas of the planet near the core are what really make the magnetic fields through electrical interaction. The heat down there is far in excess of 1400K which is IIRC the highest temperature that Iron can hold its magnetic field before the electron orbits are messed up.
So really it is the stuff around the core, not the core itself which is solid due to the intense pressure, I think anyway.
But that's arguing in the name of science, the same concept that films like this ignore much like an obese junk food obsessive ignores diets.
Actually what you spoke about is what we geologist would call the outer core, which is molten. The inner core is solid as you said. Both outer and inner core are composed of a nickel iron alloy. The mantle (which is allso subdivied) is now thought to be solid, but moves in a sluggish solid/state convection. The Manlte has two main components the asthenodshere and the lithosphere. The asthenosphere is the part which undergoes solid state convection. The litosphere is attached to the crust. The boundary between the lithosphere and the astebosphere is partially melted, this is what the continental plates slide across. This mostly theorised from the behavior of seismic waves throught the Earth.
Here endeth the geology lecture.
Anyway the movie looks crap, with no fucking idea about science.
Ah, my bad. I forgot about the whole outer and inner core thing. It's been a few years since I saw that Christmas lecture on geological concepts.
I was going "what the fuck IS this bullshit?" through the whole thing. When the Coliseum exploded, my mind nearly did too. "Superstorms"? What the fuck?!?
Can we say "ludicrous excuse to make a shoddy house of cards consisting of flashy SFX, dumb one-liners, and anti-logic"?
