Question about the ending

This is very interesting.
I wish they would put this on TV.
I have a copy but its very bad.
Like a very old tape in LP.
It was a bootleg though.


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Not claiming papal infallibility about this, but -- iirc, the crack didn't completely bisect the globe. Isn't there a line about how, after they explode the nuclear device, the crack is not ultimately stopped, as they'd hoped, but is turned back toward the test site?

I think what happened was, a big plug was blown out of the crust, large enough to create a small moon. Not that such an event wouldn't still set off all kinds of cataclysmic seismic, atmospheric, gravitational, and who-knows-whatical effects. But at least we're not expected to accept that the Earth had survived being sliced in two like a grapefruit.

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gerrythree, a small area compared to the U.S.A. let alone the entire Earth. The film is still very enjoyable despite some shaky scientific reasoning. Read our review.

Nobody would miss West Virginia.

"The land area of West Virginia is about 24,000 square miles. "

And we could well do without West Virginia!

And yet no one asked the question. How would the fragment achieve escape, let alone orbital velocity when the rotational velocity of the Earth is approximately 1000 MPH? Would not everything not nailed down also fly into space? And if it were a function of pressure below, that means the pressure was always there. This is just as idiotic because the crust cannot contain even close to that much pressure without rupturing eons ahead of time, relieving it.

This movie insults the intelligence of anyone with an IQ of room temperature and more. It is nothing more than an anti-nuke movie in disguise. If I wanted to subject myself to this tedious dreck I'd watch Algores glo-Bull warming movie which is based on the same level of science, junk.

And don't even insult intelligent people further by asking we suspend belief, because true science is not *belief*, junk science is. Good science fiction, reluctantly with the exception of F/X like "sound in space", does not ask you to disregard physics; At most, accept that there may be physics we do not yet comprehend, like super luminal transportation. Like The day After Tomorrow, a science fiction story about the Earth losing a fragment because of a man made or natural fracture does not even com close to this criteria.
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