the ice caps line
so the ice caps melted in 2330
but in 2470 the phillipines is still around?
ummmmmmmm, duh, writers.... lol
"rage to exist..." http://tinyurl.com/c9ush3z
Would the entirety of the Philippines archipelago be underwater even if ice caps melted? I doubt it.
Hence, Philippines would still exist.
Wait, heck, for all we know "the Philippines" could be moved to another place once and if their archipelago becomes unhinabitable.
They could buy/conquer/being offered a piece of Malaysia or whatever.
Or java. Or Madagascar.
THink, man, thinK!
There is a site from National Geographic that shows what the earth would look like if the ice caps melted. The Philippines have mountainous areas and some of the country would still be above sea level.
Dubuque, Iowa, however would not be on the Atlantic; even Lake Michigan wouldn't flow that far. I know, it's not that important, but it's a bit of plot that would be easy to get right: Just pick a another plausible hometown for him.
Florida, however: good-bye!
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-ma p
P.S.: Remember the "dry land" at the end of Waterworld?
Thank you for the map.
Doesn't look too shabby, at all!
The only two states not currently on the Atlantic Ocean shown in the map are Arkansas and Tennesee, so maybe they could have picked a town in those.
However I have to say, that map doesn't take into account erosion, detritus deposits, or human activities, so realistically if the Ice Melting was indeed gradual over decades, and maybe a while in the past, the world in 2400s would look rather different from NG's map, probably.
Ok, I see what you mean. It's more like the Gulf of Mexico, which is supposed to flood the Mississippi Valley and give a coastline to Arkansas and Tennessee.
Although I suspect that for this kind of movie such details are besides the point. Remember when Ruby goes on about whether the town is in Iowa or Idaho or maybe Illinois? Write the script so that everybody in the audience gets it without too much trouble!
Yes, as you can see the "actual" changes to the shorelines would be very limited, and the writers (assuming they even bothered to inform themselves) would've been forced to lose the nice quirky details in favour of a more realistic, yet both less accessible (for the general public) and less creative approach.
I for one, didn't even think about it while watching the movie, my brain automatically associated those states=inland so the Atlantic Ocean line did its job when it finally came.
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