cybertron so close to earth
Wouldn't it have caused a lot of problems on earth, Earthquakes etc?
shareThat would imply the film was trying to be realistic or something.
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I thought i was the only one to notice that.
in fact I think both planets would collide, and even the decepticons would die
No, becuase as Sentinel said the laws of physics don't apply to the space bridge.
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Good catch, I forgot he said that.
Cheap cop out.
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at least they try to explain it
shareSimply put, no Earth means no slave labour to rebuild Cybertron. Sentinel probably had the pillars programmed to maintain gravity around the object it was shipping, thus allowing everything to be okay.
It would have been nice though to see Earth crack apart, leaving the human race with no alternative but to mass exodus to Cybertron. On the other hand, that's been done before by Roland Emmerich, so it's probably for the best there wasn't any such phenomena.
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Even if you don't want to accept that the pillars defy the laws of physics, you can't deny that Cybertron was behind a thick blue layer of light, even when the control pillar was knocked out temporarily. Cybertron's gravity would have no effect on earth until Cybertron crossed the threshold, which it never did.
shareWhat film did Emerich do this in, I'm curious to see this.
shareNo, becuase as Sentinel said the laws of physics don't apply to the space bridge.
...and, apparently, anything that goes through it too?
Sorry, not buying it. The space bridge itself may defy the law of physics, but if you bring a PLANET through it, that planet is still going to retain it's mass, gravity, etc. It would tear the Earth apart. For a much more accurate example of this effect, watch "The Ultimate Doom" - y'know, the G1 episode that this film was based on. They got it right in the cheap, after school cartoon where a $200 million motion picture didn't.
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Settle down, I didn't say it was a perfect explanation I was just going by what I got from the movie. Sheesh.
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I mean, it's EXACTLY the reason given in the film.
And as far as "perfect explanations" are concerned...it's hard to do much better than a deus ex machina device being used by a machine who wants to be a god as an explanation for the functionality of his device, lol.
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There was a slight nod to stuff happening to the atmosphere.
If you watch during the last 10-15 minutes, you see alot of debris and papers swirling in the wind. My guess is that was all that Bay was willing to add to make any kind of 'atmospheric disturbance.'
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It depends on Cybertron's mass and distance and if the moon was also going to remain. Cybertron was a metal sphere of hollow tubes connected in a simple honey-combed structure. Therefore, most of Cybertron was empty space. If the metals that Cybertron was made of were of very low mass, and if Cybertron was positioned far enough away, and if Cybertron's orbit was sychronized with that of earth's moon, it is conceivable that Cybertron would have had no more gravitational effect on earth than an increase in tide heights.
It is also conceivable hollow-bodied Cybertron was similar in mass to the solid bodied moon, and that the moon was to be sent back through the portal and Cybertron would become earth's "moon".
It's even more conceivable that a bridge with the power to transport supermassive objects would obviously have some sort of damper or buffer that causes the mass of the object being transported not to crush it's destination.
I mean, would anyone today design a crane that could lift a million pounds and install it on to four of the wobbly wheels you get on a supermarket trolley?
If another planet magically appeared next to the Earth then both planets would attract each other, but Cybertron doesn't magically appear, it's brought using a technology and that technology was designed by a super clever brainy smart alien race.
Even though sci-fi movies like this are fictional I wish people really would stop using current human explanations for supposedly far futuristic things. Either suspend your disbelief or have faith that in the 38th century or whatever we are not as stupid as we evidently are now and have 1 or 2 new shiney thing.
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