GeologyRocks

I actaully thought it was a really good film and a highly accurate representation of what is going to happen to our planet........

In all fairness I thought it was an OK film, the effects were good, but if I see one more attempt at people trying to explain crustal destabillisation on that scale with relation to the movie, and how it is going to happen I'm going to scream. I have seen many many Facebook feeds over the past week were people have watched that film and are now like

"Oh myGod, that film was sooo accurate, That big Volcano thingy that's going to happen so the next time it errupts we'd better be careful because the Earth is going to break apart"

I'd agree, although one does wonder how you'd 'be carfeul' about something like Yellowstone going off!

I've not seen it, probably because I'm not much into other people's interpretation of possible (or even probable) events which are only loosely based on science, eg Waterworld and those couple of asteroid impact films I can't remember the names of.  They're ok for a bit of entertainment I suppose.

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I haven't seen the film either, but can't help but wonder how this phenomenon accounts for the force of gravity already keeping the planet in one cohesive lump?

The basic plot of the film is that a huge solar flare send sradiation to the Earth, which starts to heat up the Earths core(without causing any signs at the surface...... ) This happens in 2010, by theSummer of 2012 there is so much heat from this radiation that the crust starts to "destabillize"causing massive 10.5-12 Earthquakes all along the active fault zones........

The Yellowstone Caldera blows up, taking with it a sizeable chunk of the USA (But not before the "heroes" of our story can outrun a pyroclastic flow).

After this the entire continental crust begins to break down (there is no metion of the Oceanic crust, except for a 150m high tsunami that takes down Mt Everest), and when I say break I mean break, theres a lot of Lava flows and orangey Earth and then all of a Sudden the Cape of Good Hope is the highest point on Earth, and all the crust has shifted 2000m North..........

 But I assure you the effects are good

Leah

I think I'll have to watch "A Million Years BC" again, the one with Raquel Welch outrunning dinosaurs.  It sounds about as accurate....

I suppose it all comes down to whether you prefer your eye candy in a short leopard-skin shawl or CGI generated.

I wouldn't dream of watching anything just for the sake of "eye candy".  This is serious geological stuff we're talking about here - it's groundbreaking research to suggest that dinosaurs didn't become extinct 65 mya but survived until the Welchian subdivision of the Pleistocene.  Although it could be argued that an obviously synthetic machine-stitched garment wouldn't be much use in periglacial conditions, it's a small matter that shouldn't detract from the true (continued on page 95) .

Sorry, I can't remember much about the film....