To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 04:04:22 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: BAD movie science, irony, etc.
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 01:10:21 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:

Here's a summary I found on the
> net:
...
>   Science Fiction/Fantasy and Action/Adventure
>
>   Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Eckhart) discovers that an unknown
>   force has caused the Earth's inner core to stop rotating.  With
>   the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere
>   literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic
>   consequences.  To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of
>   the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the Earth's core
>   in a subterranean craft piloted by "terranauts," Major Rebecca
>   "Beck" Childs (Swank) and Colonel Robert Iverson (Greenwood).
>   Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.
>
> How many absurdities and impossibilities can you find in this
> description?
>

Just about every physical claim, description, allusion, or implication in
that paragraph is absurd, or impossible, or both, aside from the
implication that the Earth's inner core is presently rotating.

> On the way home, I walked along Gallows road, and noticed a sign
> for
> The Myelin Project.  It caught my eye because something didn't look
> quite right.
>
> The sign was glued in place, covering the previous tenant's sign,
> which was riveted.  The glue had failed on one side, and the sign
> was
> peeling off.  If you know what The Myelin Project project is, this
> is
> a terrible irony.
>
> Then I got caught in a thunderstorm and got thoroughly drenched.
> When I got home, my power was off.  It stayed off for over an hour.
> --

It's an omen.  The Myelin Project is doomed.

Ron Kean

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