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Facts Are Wrong

posted 19 years ago by ak_film
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So I was laughing my head off while watching this movie. There are a quite a few scenes supposed to take place in Alaska. I am from Alaska and couldn't believe what they were showing. Other the all the climate issues, there was the total disregard about other facts. Such as: Whittier couldn't support an Air Force base if it wanted too-it's hemmed in by mountains and there is no room to build, when Kathrine and Roy meet up they are in Palmer, they then in one day, drive from Palmer to Juneau-one little thing-Juneau can't be driven to-you have to fly or take a boat, Kathrine and Roy also take a helicopter to Seattle from Juneau-a distance much too far for a standard helicopter, there are many more but you get the idea. Stupid movie for facts.

[–] youil 19 years ago

you watching a movie made by sfi-ci channel and your think its going to be at all realistic?

[–] southtree 18 years ago

flying a helicopter has been described like balancing a ball on a stick. Of course this is ignoring the statment of the pilot we lost one of the rotors, the helicopter only had one,which was intact when the "landed"
An atomic bomb produces a tremendous EMP, a high altitude 50 megaton burst over the central US would destroy all unhardened electroics in North America without significantly damaging anything else.
It is also implasable (understatement) that a reporter and a weatherman would be part of an Air Force aircrew

[–] darthbane04 17 years ago

i would take this movie with a Grain of Salt.

[–] mikeflw1 10 years ago

Yeah, lost a rotor... the very minimum effect would be some pretty intense vibration from the unbalanced main rotor and missing "lift" of even a small PART of a rotor BLADE. "Lost rotor" = instant uncontrolled descent, resulting in contact with the ground... Damage to the tail rotor (or even one blade) might result in a somewhat controlled crash...

50 megaton nuclear bomb?
I believe the Soviet Union built ONE of those, for just the purpose you describe. The EMP would be related to the type/design of an atomic/thermonuclear bomb, (think "neutron bomb", "EMP bomb").

As far as EMP goes, there are EMP generating devices (non-nuclear) built to test whether military equipment can withstand various strength EMPs. (One would presume those simulate near misses by a nuclear weapon, or the pulse generated by a weapon they delivered... and many more scenarios.) Pictures of those devices have been published with a jet parked on pavement just below a device... and it didn't look even slightly like the device in the movie.

[–] debinorsworthy 17 years ago

Well, no... you can "drive" to Juneau from Palmer in the strictest sense... but aren't there ferries that tote people AND their vehicles across the water?

[–] gray1937-1 15 years ago

Man, if they can move Ft. Bragg to California, surely they can put an AFB in Whittier.