I'm watching The Day After Tomorrow
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walkitoutLet's see: the eye just happened over Dad and the guy he's pulling on the sled. The son and one buddy (I think the other one just got eaten by a wolf, but I can't be bothered to go back and check) are running to the library from the ship and everything is freezing really, really fast (I don't know why the penicillin hasn't just frozen in the glass container.
It was somewhat reasonable to be chased by a wall of water. It is _not_ reasonable to be chased by suddenly freezing everything. Nor is it reasonable to think that closing a door would make any difference.
I know, you all told me it was a stupid movie. But you told m e it was a stupid movie and talked about the climate stuff. The climate stuff doesn't matter. The stupidity lies in shit like the wolves, the penicillin run, the belief that a tent could make a difference, that the pay phone would work.
On the bright side, this movie is not afraid to kill people, and the world has finally gotten to what NeXT was demo'ing when I was in college: I can have a bad movie running in one window while I engage in pointless commentary in another.
Now all I need is to get cable hooked up to this and I'm set. Not.
Apparently some climate guy at NASA is saying we have to do something now to reduce emissions or we're all going to die in the next few decades. About freaking time someone spoke up. I have pretty much had it up to here with otherwise intelligent people acting like (a) climate change and (b) running out of fossil fuels are no big deal.
Oh, and the Dennis Quaid character is a really bad parent.
It was somewhat reasonable to be chased by a wall of water. It is _not_ reasonable to be chased by suddenly freezing everything. Nor is it reasonable to think that closing a door would make any difference.
I know, you all told me it was a stupid movie. But you told m e it was a stupid movie and talked about the climate stuff. The climate stuff doesn't matter. The stupidity lies in shit like the wolves, the penicillin run, the belief that a tent could make a difference, that the pay phone would work.
On the bright side, this movie is not afraid to kill people, and the world has finally gotten to what NeXT was demo'ing when I was in college: I can have a bad movie running in one window while I engage in pointless commentary in another.
Now all I need is to get cable hooked up to this and I'm set. Not.
Apparently some climate guy at NASA is saying we have to do something now to reduce emissions or we're all going to die in the next few decades. About freaking time someone spoke up. I have pretty much had it up to here with otherwise intelligent people acting like (a) climate change and (b) running out of fossil fuels are no big deal.
Oh, and the Dennis Quaid character is a really bad parent.
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For even more pain ...
Oh, the stink.
Re: For even more pain ...
Date: 2006-02-09 05:03 pm (UTC)=-P
Alright, I haven't seen the movie, but...
Date: 2006-02-09 05:02 pm (UTC)Basically, it's possible to bring a liquid (usually water) to a below-freezing temperature (what I usually see is about 20 below 0, centigrade, or... about -70 Fahrenheit) and have it stay liquid. The trick is that there's nothing to induce crystallization--there's very minimal motion, there's no particulate already present, and so on. The moment you agitate the liquid (knocking the molecules into new configurations, basically) or drop something in it (providing a surface to crystallize on, you freeze the entire liquid sample within seconds. Very cool to watch, actually (uh, no pun intended). Normally I see it in the lab, with solutions that need to be stored frozen, but I've also seen it with wintry ponds.
As for precipitating ice out of very cold air... I've heard of it under extreme conditions, but it's very rare. Usually you need a very high humidity (for the extremely cold temperature, which is a hard thing to come by, usually the air has to be super-saturated to boot), and then some sort of agitation (a strong wind, a slamming door, something large falling, etc.) to start the crystallization. What I've heard, however, is something akin to 'instant snow' or 'snow-fog', rather than a complete freeze-out over all surfaces (which is what I'm assuming the movie did). All kinds of funky atmospheric effects possible at the poles.
So, there is a basis for it. ;-)