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You know, it gets cold in Alaska...

posted 16 years ago by dawnredwoods
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Very cold, which would have killed the ants naturally during the first winter. This would have been much more believable in a California or Florida setting. It's also nearly impossible to drown an ant. It takes a day or two; a few minutes of torrential water from a dam would only wash them downstream.

Oh, and wasn't that driftwood found on a bayshore? I've never seen a river flow downhill from the ocean before. If it was a lake, how did the wood drift up the river?

[–] chloepq 16 years ago

That bugged me also. But this movie was so funny!

[–] Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 15 years ago

I think they "explained" the ants' survival by the heat from a local (semi-)dormant volcano.

You're right on that bayshore, too. They were talking about a freighter (from south America) that had sunk about 10 years previously. Logically, one would expect any flotsam from that to be found on an ocean shore; however, where Lutes and Campbell were looking for — and finding — driftwood definitely appeared to be a lake shore.

Oh, well. Compared to some of the other "Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies" this one is still light years ahead.

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