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  • I doubt it. I loved that movie, but, like "Titanic", there were a lot of holes in the storyline.
  • Yeah, there are waves that can get to that size (they aren't tidal waves or 'tsunamis', they are called 'rogue waves'... {The wave in the movie Poseidon for example, is a realistically sized wave of this kind, it's just that they almost never reach land, they rise and fall waaaaay out in the oceans}) Perhaps to have 'that' happen, you'd need all the ice to melt at once and miraculously form one of these waves (not at all likely, but still it is capable of happening), then you'd need everything to get very cold suddenly for it to freeze over like that... It's all 'possible', but extremely unlikely (it'd almost certainly require us to 'make' it happen; it won't really happen naturally)
  • I think some of those events are possible, however I doubt they could happen in such short succession, one after another. I mean, Tidal waves, Tornadoes, a new Ice age in about 3 days? : )
  • The more we fuck up the eco system the more likely it will happen. Trust me we're getting there.
  • Here (http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/AtMovieDayAfterTom.htm) is a critique of "The Day After Tomorrow" that was written by an actual scientist. He usually does a pretty good job in pointing out the scientific holes in the various products that come out of Hollywood. If you want to see more of his critiques, then trying the main page (http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pscindx.htm).
  • It could happen. We are destroying the Earth. It is a scary thought, but it is true.
  • No, but that is my most favorite movie of all time!
  • All we need for an Ice Age is for the oceanic 'conveyor belt' to shut down, this WILL happen by the melting of ice-caps and the poles. You see when the fresh water from the frozen caps and poles dilute the salt in the sea the conveyor belt carrying salt water will no longer have enough salt to drop down into the ocean, thus stopping it and in consequence stopping the warm currents provided by it. This will in turn cause localized cooling, especially in the northern hemisphere. Then the CO2 levels rie, dust settles and the Earth gets warmer and warmer, pushing the ice back to the poles and restarting the conveyor belt. Eventually the temperature gets to such a point that the ice melts again and we get the same thing over and over. On average this occurs every 100,000 years, over the last 2 million years there have been 20 Ice Ages. The last Ice Age occured 127,000 years ago, which means it is overdue by 27,000 years! WHEN the next one comes it will be horrific. Mammoths have been found with their food still in their mouths undigested but not to the extent that the movie portrays! The freeze will be quick but not instantaneous. Glenn, the conveyor belt goes all the way to the Arctic circle, if the ice melts up there then it will dilute the salt and stop the belt that keeps the water in the oceans from cooling to a freezing temperature. Of course there isn't as much ice today as there has been in the past, that's why it's called an 'Ice Age' but that still doesn't alter the fact that the planet goes through this cycle every (on average) 100,000 years and there's nothing we can do to stop it. At the end of the day, we know it has happened numerous times and it will happen again soon regardless of whether or not we know the cause. What's important is that we prepare for the global change that is imminent.
  • I wanna see it, was it good? Was it Scary?
  • You need to remember - alot of aspects of the film are scientifically exaggerated, and impossible, e.g. it would take years for an ice sheet that large to melt to any significant affect (I believe a massive ice sheet broke off the Antartic in 2004 or 2005 and they're still watching it melt?). Also, things like the super-freeze hurricanes aren't real, As governed by E = kT, gases up in the atmosphere are PROBABLY not much colder then they are down here, in terms of kinetic energy per particle, but the pressure is so much lower, which accounts for the temperature difference we feel. However, I am not a global warming sceptic, it's an inevitable outcome. It goes hand in hand with resource consumption... Our planet has a fixed 'value' of commodities, e.g. tungsten, uranium, and due to the production method in coal and oil, you can assume those to be standalone sources, irreplenishable. I'm a strong advocat that we need to encourage 100% recycling and stop draining the planet...
  • Yes, that's what happens if we don't write-in ballots for Al Gore! (Seriously, though, NO! Not as quickly as the movie suggests.)

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