Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

Mac Breck wrote:
> ravenlynne wrote:
>> Mac Breck wrote:
>>> Jack Bohn wrote:
>>>> Mac Breck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jack Bohn wrote:
>>>>>> And, of course, the final question for making a movie of it: what
>>>>>> can we, as concerned citizens, do about dwarf star material on
>>>>>> the Moon?
>>>>> Not a thing.
>>>> Well, besides giving the scientist a Space Shuttle full of nukes
>>>> to go to the Moon,
>>>
>>> Since when can a Space Shuttle make it to the moon?  And if it could
>>> make it there, how would it land?
>>>
>>>
>>>> plant them in a fissure, play a little "red
>>>> wire/green wire," and make a big 'xplosion.  That's always worth
>>>> a try.
>>>
>>> Maybe a kamikaze run?
>>>
>>
>> Well, they'd just fly by, open the hatch and drop the
>> 'splosives...duh...;-)
>
> Shuttles aren't designed to do bombing runs (no bombsights, no
> atmosphere for bomb or rocket fins to guide against, etc.), let alone
> upside down and dropped/pushed out of the roof.

And just what makes you think that a SciFi Channel movie has even a
passing 
awareness of reality?

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