1. Lightning is attracted to stone structures, not metal, and makes them explode.
2. Intense microwaves that melt steel will only give human skin a bad sunburn.
3. A radio that can transmit thruogh the entire Earth's mantle and crust won't be able to transmit to the next compartment of the ship.
Underwater mammels will "sing" back at anything remotely sounding like their language.
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yaeh, I noticed that.
A real health blackspot.
The local cuisine must be very poor, high fat and all that. A MacDonalds on every corner?
45: A device able to cut into rock like butter have no military applications.
46: Space shuttle gears can be opened in less than 2 seconds.
47: In space, directional reactors make noises.
48: If you are responsible for ground control of the earth shuttle AND you are a woman, then you have to serve the coffee, too.
49: Dropping a random mass of plutonium next to a bomb will make it more powerful.
50: Marianas Trench is in the south pacific.
51: Changing core rotation seems to change the rotation of earth too.
I would like to see you try it. Seriously!
Of course why would you take a suit designed to allow you to walk in 9000 degrees into the centre of the earth where you would be surrounded by solid rock or molten lava at millions of pounds pressure per square inch?
Where would you walk to?
52. The microwaves that break through the EM field are also a nifty "landmark sniffer." The microwave beam is only a few hundred feet across and yet it just happens to slice up the Golden Gate Bridge.
Of course, that's typical Hollywood. It's cooler to see the Eiffel Tower vaporized or the Great Pyramid blown to bits than, say, a field of lichen destroyed in northern Greenland.
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53. The human body apparently has a higher density than lava since it sinks in lava when one of the guys of the crew dies.
shareHeh, my science teacher from a couple years back had us watch this movie while he was gone to try to spot every implausible thing that happened in it. We gave up like ten minutes in.
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53. Diamonds are worth nothing anymore. There are huge ones waiting for us.
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-----34. Whales can descend to 13 kms below the surface. -----
Someone way up there somewhere idiotically put this one. While the film does have its downfalls scientifically and logically speaking, I don't find at any point in the film where the whales are "13 kms" below the surface (assuming this person meant 13 "kilometers."). The last time we see them as the ship descends to the trench is at 500 feet. The last time we see the whales in the film period is when the ship has re-emerged from the mantle off the coast of Hawaii--and, even then, they are at 800 feet. Both of these depths are, in fact, scientifically plausible. I don't know where this genius got 13 kilometers.
Anyway, despite all the film's scientific flaws (I don't believe they were going for the science in this film), it did have some very effective acting on the parts of Hillary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, and Stanley Tucci. I enjoyed their performances greatly--especially Swank's. Her character learns many lessons that all people should have to learn about leadership and common sense.
At that depth of 500 feet, the trench... well, it isn't there. It's a couple of thousand feet down to the seabed, and the trench (which is nowhere near as thin as it's made out, anyway) takes over from there. Yet the whales leave as the drill-machine-type-thing (I refuse to give it its assigned name citing logical reasoning) achieves visual confirmation on the trench ahead of them. As such the whales are last seen at a depth of several thousand feet.
Somewhere along the line somebody screwed up, and I've got a feeling it was the scriptwriter when he thought: "Hey, you know what I'd really like to do with my life...?". Check out his credentials: Catwoman and Transformers. Wow.
55 - Totally agree. How they can come to the assumption that a 6 compartment ship can be made up of 7 compartments is beyond me!!
Also - If Beck had no power after Josh removed the reactor to put in with the final bomb, how come when the last bomb explodes they are nowhere near it and have time to rig the power before the blast wave hits them??
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58. science is simply lying when stating something called "Inertia" and the core of the earth always manages to get you a fast back-ticket that lasts less than 10 Minutes, still you can sit there handling a joystick to choose directions
59. top secret high-ranking councils about the end of humankind always have some nice buffet with fruits just in case a scientist wants to explain physics with them
60. ingenious cyber-hackers with unhealthy food habits and anorexia aren't excluding each other
61. american professors do look like Kent, especially if they are the chosen ones to save the entire world. And they get the girl, finally...
62. never forget to let the french guy pop up with a bottle of champagne in an american action flick
63. if you want to characterize an arrogant, narcissistic, whiny professor, just make him appear to be german
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64. Being stuck together in a situation where they could die any minute, and being left alone in the little ship after everyone else dies, still isn't enough to make Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank start going all over each other.
share65. Birds rely solely on the Earth's magnetic field to get around (makes you wonder why they have eyes in the first place).
share66. apparently, you can weld wires to a material that can withstand heat up to 9,000 degrees.
67. deep sea divers need to wear enourmous suits to withstand the pressure in the ocean. but when traveling to the center of the earth all you need is a leather jacket and some cool looking helmets.
68. you need a high tech laser to cut a path through rock to get to the core of the earth but you can get back without it.
69. just because someone stole your mediocre idea 20 years before you cant get funding for your new projects even if the project can dive to the earths core.
70. you can discover a metal that can withstand any heat and convert it to energy but you won't be a millionare.
71. you can melt a metal chain and burn your hand by briefly touching a plutonium core but still manage to later carry it 2 feet, pull it up a 8ft ladder with one hand and carry it another 5ft and not have the urge to let go.
72. if there isn't a monster involved the black guy isn't always the first to die, he's just the first to volunteer to die.
73. if the only thing keeping you cool in a giant metal box is used up you only sweat a little.
74. a college professor can legaly promise Phd's to people without them doing the work to ern it.
75. a college professor can whip up an X-ray guidance device in a matter of weeks and not be stinking rich.
76. although probably nobody has noticed it: right at the end when they show some newspaper clippings, the "Spiegel" is located in Berlin/Germany. Fools, every kid knows that it actually is produced entirely in Hamburg.
Okay, you probably have to watch very carefully instead of gulching down your pop-corn ... or you have to be German ...
none the less that was still an interesting fact. thanks.
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78. You say bad words when you will die.
share79.Hot pockets help you relax.
share80. A missunderstood top-notch scientist is the only one in the world that figures out that suddenly all the compasses doesn't work anymore.
81. Whether or not we acually have a magnetic field isn't really that important to our survival. Other than a bunch of disappointed boyscouts there will be no problem if we just lose our magnetic field.
> 81. Whether or not we acually have a magnetic field isn't really that important to our survival. Other than a bunch of disappointed boyscouts there will be no problem if we just lose our magnetic field.
My previous post rubbishing this statement amended ... to my surprise you are right!
"76. although probably nobody has noticed it: right at the end when they show some newspaper clippings, the "Spiegel" is located in Berlin/Germany. Fools, every kid knows that it actually is produced entirely in Hamburg.
Okay, you probably have to watch very carefully instead of gulching down your pop-corn ... or you have to be German"
Except that, of course, Der Spiegel DOES have a "Buro" in Berlin.
Redaktionsbüro Berlin (nur SPIEGEL ONLINE)
E-Mail: [email protected], Telefon: 030/886688-300, Fax: 030/886688-333
And, I suppose that it would be OK to contact them instead of the "Burocrats" (my phrase)in Hamburg. They would certainly have a better sense of humor there, as I've found many in Hamburg to be typical Prussians.
77. Apparently, people are far more freaked out about stretching science when it's in the short term and not years in the future. Apparently now, we will demand that Hitchcock explain all of his McGuffins and also tell us how a glass of milk will glow like lava in a glass in the hand of Cary Grant <chuckle>.
Hitchcock handled his Mcguffins with class and humour-not found here.
In 1959 it was OK to think that that well lit, easily found trails, and Dinosaurs might live in the center of the Earth.
But that kind of tripe science shouldnt have a place in todays (supposedly) more sophisticated
movie going public.
Pure popcorn entertainment should still try to be just a little above the moron level.
Pure popcorn entertainment should still try to be just a little above the moron level.
113. It is possible to create a movie that makes the physics of Superman believable.
shareActually, if they discovered accidentally the kingdom of mole-people, this movie could have been much better lol
share84: A 50 Megaton warhead is about the size of a microwave oven.
85: A Gigaton strong thermonuclear explosion will immediately restart the Earth's core spinning at over a thousand miles an hour.
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86: The golden gate bridge was built of incredibly shoddy materials and will melt before either cars or their tires
share87: A geode filled with nothing in particular seems to take *just* a few minutes to begin to fill up with high pressure magma from outside, allowing our heroes to make their escape without getting in the least bit singed. - A bit like putting ones car at the bottom of a lake, opening a window and waiting a couple of minutes for the car to begin to fill.. how handy!
88: Female astronauts are naturally buxom beauties and as such are perfectly entitled to wear makeup at all times, especially while in the Space Shuttle during a mission.
89: Female astronauts also are always ignored by the belligerent captain when they automagically come up with directions on their own from a map of an area where they weren't going to land in the first place.
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90: Military secrecy requires the use of world-famous personnel from non-military institutions like NASA and universities, who spontaneously become US military personnel, to conduct ubersecret missions.
91: Clearly the only way to keep something secret is to delete every single mention of it on the Internet. Great to know TV, radio, newspapers, snail mail and word-of-mouth couldn't *possibly* be used nowadays.
92: You can burn a hole through the surface of the earth into the mantle but clearly you don't need to worry about reflux of magma through the hole (no artificial volcanoes, oh well). Guess all those megatonnes of rock sorta packs to the side or something too (miners take note).
93: Radiation from nuclear fuel rods aint what it used to be. Certainly makes handling easier.
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NO 88
Hilary Swank is pretty, but she is hardly buxom.
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87. You can draw power from all over the country to a single destination without frying any powerlines that have to handle all that combined power along the way.
88. Even supermodern ships that can travel to the centre of the earth are still built with 70's technology 74LS00 chips.
89. Movie heroes can withstand heat hot enough to have their glasses crack without their face getting burnt.
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who really cares... its just a movie. i cant see why it turned out to be a flop in the box office
shareI'm afraid I am unsure why you could not see why it was a flop, but I could speculate that a few inattentions to detail *might* make it difficult for an audience to allow fiction to be entertaining.
A few thousand seems to make matters worse.
Then you have The Core, which appears to be a example of never letting simple facts get in the way of a mediocre story with mediocre acting.
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94: A 50 MT nuclear warhead launched at the core of our planet doesn't cause any seismic trouble, but some funny looking waves in the Sahara Desert.
95: Laser beams don't cut, they melt the material!
96: Lightning strikes from the top to the bottom so it can move while striking like the particle cannon in cnc generals.
97: A single person can control all data whithin the entire internet.
98: The word of a hacker is worth more than a General's order on a military vessel.
This movie was so ridiculous it made me laugh multiple times... Maybe it was actually designed for the comedy genre, which would explain a lot :)
It wasn't a complaint--just an observation.
Touchy, touchy.
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2 Could be
Metal is highly conducting and so could absorbe more energy than the human skin, which will only be fried.
Someone please add this to wikipedia. Their list of inaccuracies is way too short..
someone told me to get a life, but i dont know where to download one..HEY! can I download yours?!