Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

In article <fv7g9u01g8g@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ravenlynne <ravenlynne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

From the original thread on this gem:

> The trade says that "Impact" focuses on the aftermath of meteor shower
> that leaves the piece of a dwarf star stuck in the moon. As a result,
> a bunch of weird stuff starts happening on Earth, including "cell
> phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of
> sporadic weightlessness." None of that actually sounds so bad, but we
> assume things get worse.

So it's just an itty bit.

> Elliott will play an astrophysicist who joins forces with a female
> astronomer to discover that the moon may be heading on a collision
> course with Earth. Ah. That sounds bad. 

oops.

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