Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

ravenlynne wrote:

> peachy ashie passion wrote:
> 
>> ravenlynne wrote:
>>
>>> I believe I see more Space Rice Krispies in our future:
>>>
>>> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=53131
>>
>>
>>>  a two-part SF disaster TV movie, about a dwarf star striking the 
>>> moon and wreaking havoc on Earth, Variety reported.
>>>
>>
>>   I think that one line says everything we need to know.  A dwarf 
>> star????
> 
> 
> Yes.  a "dwarf star" crashes into the moon.  One can only imagine.
> 
> Can we examine this bit by bit? Wouldn't a star, albeit dwarf, still be 
> much larger than a moon, thereby not really crashing into it, but 
> knocking it away? Or crushing it?  Well, we all know that's just wrong. 
>  Also, isn't a star a revolving, burning ball of gas? So it really 
> wouldn't "strike" as much as incinerate? And what the fuck is a star 
> doing careening about the solar system anyway? Never mind that...there's

> another pressing issue....Wouldn't havoc have been long ago wreaked on 
> earth well before it "struck" the moon?  Mind you, I'm no scientist.  I 
> might be wrong.
> 


    But yeah, another sun wandering about the galaxy and being that 
close to earth?

    The problem is NOT the collision with the moon, it is the heat and 
gravity of a SUN being that close.


   I'm sure though that they'll hide in the sewers and it'll all be fine.