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.
Although there are plenty of airfields around LA, choose to land your shuttle in a dried-up river bed.
'Core' ship crew can manually pilot it for over 16 hours without needing sleep.
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Well, much as I think the science in the core is ridiculous in this case it is becauuse the shuttle runway length is about 17,000 (including run-offs) which is a lot lomger tham most commercial runways.
share121. Ships that passed through an empty space (and "can't fly") on the way down can somehow learn how to fly on the way back up.
122. Apparently some other world force (terrorist perhaps) have the finance and technical expertize to create a mega-project that enables them cause earthquakes under the USA.
123. A ship that can survive abnormally high and low temperatures, extreme pressure, magma and are 'undestructable' are almost crippled by just moving past a diamond formation.
124. Ships without any propulsion can somehow turn left and right even without any speed.
125. On the mission that would decide the fate of the world and with unlimited resources, the great wise world leaders send two space pilots (one with limited experiance in commanding), two theoretical scientists (one totally unknown) and two guys who are apparently there only for diversity: a Frenchmen and a black guy.
126. All Hollywood disaster movies are a carbon copy with changed background setting :)
127. Anything you do, if you survive, will some how be re-payed to you 2 fold through series of interesting events that are somehow life changing even thought the fact what you just went through was hell, you always look at the bright side after.
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Unobtanium is quite readily obtainable.
Pidgeons who merely rely on the north and south pole for naviagtion whilst migrating or long distance flights, will suddenly go beserk whilst sitting around when the poles mix up.
These birds will also inevitably fly at people.
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128. "Invisible" microwaves are actually visible.
If Plan A doesn't work, you should have a Plan B, not Plan A recycled
129. Pigeons don't actually make pigeon noises. They instead sound like Ben Burtt's synthesiser! (See any Indiana Jones movie).
130. A narrow beam of curiously visible microwaves will specifically target a small hole in the Earth's EM field, and score a bullseye shining right through it!
131. A ship that is not designed to travel through empty space is still equipped with suits, tool-kits, and other items that could only be used in an open space environment.
132. Important instrumentation such as override switches etc should always be located in hard to reach places - just in case you ever need to use them!
133. GBTV is of course the no.1 television station in the UK!
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134. When the engine that generates the magnetic field of the earth stops completely, the magnetic field inexplicably remains active for three months.
135. When you are faced with an extremely dangerous situation that may hold the fate of the whole planet in the balance, the best way to deal with it is to crack jokes with your buddy.
136. Young, cool, though inexperienced suboridinates always outsmart their stuffy superiors.
137. Even a talented actress cannot breathe life into a sterotype.
A steel chain can melt and not glow bright red.
You can look into a room at 9000 degrees Fahrenheit and not be instantly blinded by the incandescent light.
A soft suit can stand hundreds of thousands of pounds per square inch.
When a room is really, really hot, there have to be thick heat waves in the air.
The only material known that can stand such high temperatures and pressures is the unobtainium, but somehow the glass visor can also stand these conditions.
138. If you run mission control for the space shuttle program you're qualified to run it for a sub terrain vessel.
139. If a compartment detaches you can still some how see whats going on inside.
140. You have to be a whinny bitch if you're friend dies even when it would have endangered the mission to save the earth.
141. Plutonium fuel from a nuclear reactor is of the same quality as that of a nuclear weapon.
142. There are always pieces of wire available for when you need to draw straws to decide who's going to die. You can just cut them from anywhere.
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144. Nimitz- class aircraft carriers that have no SONAR equipment at all can pick up the sounds of humpback whales hundreds of feet below the surface.
145. A nuclear reactor can easily have its fuel elements removed when critical with just a simple pull, regardless of the internal temperature/ pressures of the reactor core.
146. High- energy radiation doesn't affect your head or face.
147. When you hear whales they are obviously calling to the ship youre looking for, there is no chance that theyre calling to any thing else
148. The only way to make government officials understand how serious something is is by setting a peach on fire
149. It is completely Ok to make the DESTINY information available on the Internet, even though hundreds of potential terrorists could find out about it.
119. whales are our friends
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share151. If you have to make a vehicle that needs to travel in unknown areas and avoid potentially fatal obstacles... Make sure you can't maneuver very well.
152. If you have to damage a section of said vehicle and eject it, make sure it is the last section and not one in the middle or on the front...
153. I know its been listed, but it needs to be said again, radio communication with the control center on the surface is crystal clear through thousands of miles of rock!
This would have been a great movie if I were eight years old, but I've been watching movies for more than 40 years past that... I have NEVER seen a movie about a tunneling ship that travels to the center of the earth that was remotely credible. (Yeah, there have been a few)
Journey to the Center of the Earth with Pat Boone was more believable... well maybe.
No less implausible than Armageddon, but less fun.
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154. When in need of a landing site for the shuttle, don’t use the perfectly acceptable 12,000ft of runway at LAX, use instead a storm drain, and then get praised for great navigating!!!!
"We have 650 planes!"
"Yes, and they have 2,500"
"Well they wont all come over at once"
164. Astronauts carry a whiz wheel
"We have 650 planes!"
"Yes, and they have 2,500"
"Well they wont all come over at once"
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158. It's cool to smoke on a craft with pressurized oxygen tanks.
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I was really expecting the room to ignite or something during that close-up shot of the dr lighting his cig...
good fun this movie, good fun....if you happen to like highly realistic simpsons-physics ;)
1. Lightning is attracted to stone structures, not metal, and makes them explode.