Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

Mac Breck wrote:

>Mark Nobles wrote:
>> Mac Breck <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A brown dwarf, which is well on its way to becoming just a big rock.
>>
>> But since they are somewhat larger than 13 times the mass of Jupiter,
>> the heat is not really the thing to worry about.
>
>No, the name of the game there would be gravity.  Just imagine those
>gravitational forces at the distance the moon is from the earth.

The movie will evidently cover that, with "cell phone service
interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of sporadic
weightlessness."

Hey!  I didn't say they'd cover it *well*!

-- 
-Jack