Heads Up: Bad Science Fiction on the way to your TV Screen

April 21, 2008
By Anon E. Mouse

The upcoming mini-series is called Impact

According to the story…

Budgeted at $13 million, the effects-heavy “Impact” chronicles the aftermath of a meteor shower during which a piece of a dwarf star lodges itself in the moon. That triggers a series of anomalies on Earth, including cell phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of sporadic weightlessness.

I know – CELL PHONE SERVICE DISRUPTION??? How will we ever survive? We are all going to die!

Of course, even for bad Sci-Fi this is bad. Once scientist (or it could be an engineer) said,

For what its worth ….. Just a quick note on your stupid movie alert: The minimum delta-V required to put the moon on a collision course with earth is about 4 km/sec. Assuming a lunar mass of 7.348300E+22 kg the kinetic energy equivalent is about 6x 10^14 giga joules. This equates to roughly 1.42 million 100-megaton Fusion warheads exploding simultaneously – and they won’t have long to wait for collision .. about 4 1/2 days.

Credit: NASAWatch

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One Response to “ Heads Up: Bad Science Fiction on the way to your TV Screen ”

  1. 11Bravo on April 21, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    “I know – CELL PHONE SERVICE DISRUPTION??? How will we ever survive? We are all going to die!”

    You obviously didn’t see last week’s South Park episode where the Internet disappeared. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be mocking the seriousness of such a grave disruption of technological infrastructure…