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Originally Posted by james0246
They can't all be The Day After (one of the few Disaster films with an actual point that had some actual science and not just sci fi babble) (...)
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Err...what? Sorry, does
not compute.
You do know that this movie was panned by both environmentalists and global warming skeptics alike and was even pegged as 'being to climate science what Frankenstein was to heart surgery'?
Some points of contention:
Spoiler:
- The desalinization point that is reportedly reached in the movie (when too much freshwater is dumped in the oceans and reverses the oceanic currents) would require more or less the equivalent of Greenland's ice sheet to disappear...at once, seeing how absurdly fast the disaster is in that movie (it should be noted that some of the science has been deemed plausible by experts, but happened too abruptly - though it was only for the sake of good visuals - to retain any more credibility).
- The super-system that siphons extremely cold air from the troposphere and blows it over the planet's surface to freeze everything it comes across is physically impossible due to the ideal gas law: the downward airflow is compressed as it passes from a low to a high pressure environment...and thus is fated to heat up. Furthermore, the said tropospheric air has a higher potential temperature. If it's brought down (originally at -50°C) to the surface, to an average pressure of 100kPa, its temperature would actually rise to 30°C. Thank you world of physics - thanks to you, in this particular situation, we wouldn't be reduced to man-shaped icicles...rather, we'd be lounging in our gardens, in shorts and t-shirts...and enjoying the weather.
- For NY and its surroundings (plus Europe and Asia) to be buried under so much ice and snow (a 65m thickness judging from the Statue of Liberty's state), Antarctica (which contains a overwhelmingly great proportion of the world's freshwater reserves) would have to melt down by no less than 75%.
Sorry, but if I want to watch a scientifically accurate movie, I'll make sure the director is not someone that goes by the name of Roland Emmerich. I'd still go to enjoy his now trademark scenes of widespread destruction and the amazing CGI, but that'd be all. I mean, that guy did cast extraterrestrials that could jump from planet to planet with death rays big enough to vaporize Empire State Building yet were unable to come up with their own equivalent of McAfee or Kaspersky.
And let's not even mention Godzilla - the Gojira fans might bristle.