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My biggest problem with this movie....

posted 4 years ago by AmeriGirl26 (12299)
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...was that in the 90s, when disaster flicks came out, much of what you saw was based on actual science, and were even inspired by real-life events. Movies such as "Dante's Peak," "Twister," and "Volcano" were interesting and semi-believable. "The Core" was a little less believable, but what the plutonauts in the story got to see as they tunneled through the earth's various layers is based on what we actually know about our planet's interior.

I also studied weather extensively as a kid, and this movie's BS weather really made me squirm, the "science" was soooo badly-written.

[–] PaladinNJ (20310) 4 years ago

True, weather cannot change that fast. Far too much energy would be required to move too fast. It would take centuries for those types of changes to happen. They only did it for dramatic license.
Even in the movie they state that the changes should not be happening so fast.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12299) 4 years ago

The closest we came to extreme weather similar to the "land hurricanes" were "hypercanes," which are only a theory put forth by researchers at MIT.

Hypercanes are a theoretical storm that would be a smaller storm, but 5x as strong as a normal hurricane. However, the catch is, the ocean surface temperature has to be at 90F and have unstable air above the water. The warmest our ocean surface temperatures ever get is 85F, and that's bad enough in the early autumn during hurricane season. If such a storm were to have happened, it would have occurred in a time when the earth was literally warmer, such as during the Age of the Dinosaurs, or a powerful volcano was going off under the ocean's surface, or in the scenario of the meteor hitting and wiping out the dinosaurs. All three could have spawned Hypercanes, and even then, they still require seawater to fuel the storm.

The icy "land hurricanes" is utter BS fantasy.