Guest Scathane Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 Have you seen it? If so, what did you think? I personnally thought it was brilliant in the graphical sense of the word. Yet, there's someting I've often wondered about and which this movie didn't address... If large parts of our world were to be deserted or become uninhabitable, wouldn't this lead to some other disiasters as well? For example, just think of unattended nuclear powerplants, industrial and chemical plants or other potentially dangerous stuff that needs constant attention and monitoring... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWR Staff - Executive Evaders99 Posted June 2, 2004 SWR Staff - Executive Share Posted June 2, 2004 I think it is a very unrealistic scenario. You have the scentific community bauling over it. Another scare tactic the extreme environmentalists will use to further their cause. Haven't seen the movie, but the special effects do look quite good. Evaders99http://swrebellion.com/images/banners/rebellionbanner02or6.gif Webmasterhttp://swrebellion.com/images/banners/swcicuserbar.png Administrator Fighting is terrible, but not as terrible as losing the will to fight.- SW:Rebellion Network - Evaders Squadron Coding -The cake is a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElvisMiggell Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 I remember listening to an article on Radio 4 (yes Jahled i'm that sad) about it where they were saying that they were quite aware it wasn't realistic, much like pretty much every other film. Ever. Elvismiggell. Strike me down and i will become more powerful than you can ever imagine... Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scathane Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 Well, I must admit that I always consider this kind of movie as entertainment. On the other hand, I like the what-if way in which things are visualised. BTW, did they say why it wasn't realistic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejiuvanat Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 The special effects are impressive, but the movei was, as usual, to US-centristic, they could have at least showed what happened to the other countries. It is too unrealistic, an Ice Age doesn't start in just a few days. As for your first question, the nuclear plants may have been shut down during whatever evacuation procedures you had, and the cold would have paralyzed it completely. Industrial and an chemical just as well most likely. As for the scientific community bauling over it, well it's just a movie. http://www.swrebellion.com/~jahled/Trej/banner.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scathane Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 I know, I know... But with regards to all those so-called experts... we really should have to admit that we don't really know how fast this kind of thing could happen, now do we... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElvisMiggell Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 It's very unlikely that it would happen over the period of a few days. Whilst a catastrophic event could in theory cause an ice age in a matter of weeks, it's much more likely to be a long term degredation into one. Elvismiggell. Strike me down and i will become more powerful than you can ever imagine... Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scathane Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 It's very unlikely that it would happen over the period of a few days. Whilst a catastrophic event could in theory cause an ice age in a matter of weeks, it's much more likely to be a long term degredation into one. Ehich is something we believe because we tend to deduct this from indirect indications... I mean, do you know someone who's actually witnessed one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejiuvanat Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 Well, in the last star system I visited a while ago... The movie argues the glaciation as the result of the "death" of the NA-current, an event of that scale wouldn't happen in matter of days, and not without repercusions in all the other currents of the world. http://www.swrebellion.com/~jahled/Trej/banner.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scathane Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Well, in the last star system I visited a while ago... The movie argues the glaciation as the result of the "death" of the NA-current, an event of that scale wouldn't happen in matter of days, and not without repercusions in all the other currents of the world. Yes, but the movie doensn't say it leaves the other currents unaffected, does it? Furthermore, we think that such a thing can't happen in a few days although in reality, we don't know for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_mask Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Well, I didn't like what this would make of my retirement retreat Haven't seen it so far, but if it has the same good impact as 'wargames', then I'm all ears http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5183/animated9pn.gifhttp://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1778/reloadedbannerdu8.gifhttp://www.swrebellion.com/images/banners/rebellionbanner02or6.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 I remember listening to an article on Radio 4 (yes Jahled i'm that sad) about it where they were saying that they were quite aware it wasn't realistic, much like pretty much every other film. Ever. Sad! Good lord no! Intelligent radio attracts intelligent people and subsequently stimulates intelligent minds! As for the film; I haven't seen it, have read dubious reports about the film's subject matter, but have been awed, as per normal, by the special effects i've been exposed to... As for the subject matter, I personally wouldn't describe myself as an envirnmental-extremist as E so carefully deployed the word; but I am concerned about our beautiful little world God was kind enough to grant us, and read not so long ago that the Bush-administration still doesn't consider 'global-warming,' as something effecting the planet. This was in an article in the Independant about how the Pentagon does... and is trying to influence the Whitehouse to prick it's eyes and ears up to the fact conflicts in the near future are likely to be fought for primordial reasons; water, fertile land etc... as a direct consequence of global warming... The film seems to be a tab over-dramatic in this vein, however... http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejiuvanat Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Well, I didn't like what this would make of my retirement retreat Nah, at least in the movies, nothing happened to your Caribbean Island. Nor to Costa Rica for that matter. http://www.swrebellion.com/~jahled/Trej/banner.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWR Staff - Executive Evaders99 Posted June 3, 2004 SWR Staff - Executive Share Posted June 3, 2004 As a recent Vent said, "The Day After Tomorrow has as much to do about global warming as Independence Day does about illegal immigration." Evaders99http://swrebellion.com/images/banners/rebellionbanner02or6.gif Webmasterhttp://swrebellion.com/images/banners/swcicuserbar.png Administrator Fighting is terrible, but not as terrible as losing the will to fight.- SW:Rebellion Network - Evaders Squadron Coding -The cake is a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 As a recent Vent said, "The Day After Tomorrow has as much to do about global warming as Independence Day does about illegal immigration." Not bad. http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gleem Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 A friend of mine says that the icecaps are melting so fast that in 75 years nobody will have to worry about anything anymore. I have also heared that sometime soon there is going to be another polarity reversal in the earths gravity field. It happens once every so many million years, and we are due for another one. Then again, I believe that whatever comes our way, our people will adapt to whatever threat comes our way and grow stronger becomes of it. Maybe a real imminent global distaster might bring people closer together somehow and look past their differences. "When you take water and pour it into a cup, it BECOMES the cup. When you put the water in a bowl it becomes the bowl. Be smart, be like water my friend.."-Bruce Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 (edited) The future could indeed be very scary. Unfortunately the facts concerning the effects of global-warming are, as always, obscured behind the deluge of 'the world-is-about-to-end,' information thrown at us by the environmental loby, and the other extreme; those board-members of the executive table responding to their share-holder's interests, and ignoring the obvious dark clouds gathering on the horizon, for profit and our pension schemes. As Evaders pointed out, the film is as realistic a reflection of the effects of global warming as is an alien invasion is to immigration... Edit: Try and make sense I must! Edited June 6, 2004 by Jahled http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElvisMiggell Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Had my physics exam this morning, well, yesterday morning by now, and one of the choices was... "Discuss the role of the colonisation of Mars and Venus in dealing wih the effects of Global Climate CHange." You can bet i had fun. Elvismiggell. Strike me down and i will become more powerful than you can ever imagine... Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scathane Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 What did you answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADarkJedi44 Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 Fear December 23, 2012! Those Mayans know more than they should.... Sweat saves blood-Erwin Rommel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_mask Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Fear December 23, 2012! Those Mayans know more than they should.... Well yeah, it'll be my homepage's 11th birthday, but why will that be so bad ? http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5183/animated9pn.gifhttp://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1778/reloadedbannerdu8.gifhttp://www.swrebellion.com/images/banners/rebellionbanner02or6.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADarkJedi44 Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Because that's the day the Mayan calendar ends and an apocalyptic event is supposed to happen. Sweat saves blood-Erwin Rommel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejiuvanat Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 You watched way too much X-Files episodes, Darky, the Mayans were pretty smart, but they couldn't have forseen the 11th Anniversary of Mask's page... Much less the quasi-cataclismic festivities organized by Mask for such an occasion. http://www.swrebellion.com/~jahled/Trej/banner.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADarkJedi44 Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I saw it on the history channel not the X-files Sweat saves blood-Erwin Rommel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scathane Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 I saw it on the history channel not the X-files History Channel, Animal Channel, Discovery Channel... All nice when it comes to petty science but don't take their broadcasts as factual, hard science, dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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