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Cell phone service is crap but their comms work in the mantle of Earth?

posted 15 years ago by vivace1
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I enjoyed this movie a bit, don't get me wrong...mostly because of the cast. It held my attention to the end.
But did anyone else think the most unbelievable part was the fact that they had communications working down in the middle of the earth? I know the astronauts have comms in space and everything but really in 9000 degrees in the middle of the earth's core the comms work? That plus the whole science of what they were doing were the biggest "suspensions of belief". The hacker made me laugh though.
Plus it was pretty much the movie Armageddon except in the middle of the planet instead of in space. Kind of a blatant rip off actually.

[–] Volley2015 11 years ago

The single most flawed part of this movie, besides nuclear weapons being used to restart the Earth's core, besides free-energy being used in the Virgil tunneling device, besides a Project Destini that was fired into the Earth and stopped the core from churning in the first place, is the flawed communications system in this movie.

NO communications system in the world can pierce through the planet's crust, let alone the mantle, let alone the outer core, LET ALONE the inner core.

None.

Not SW, SW2, AM, FM, 3G, LTE, UHF, VHF, HAM, 900Mhz, 2.8GHz, 5GHz, blah blah blah you name it. Our most advanced radio technology can barely go through walls in a house with copper piping.

The very fact that Virgil was in communication with HQ on Earth's surface--while just outside the Inner Core, is beyond insane.

And the worst part, there wasn't even a SINGLE throwaway line in the movie to address this fact. They could have said "oh, we developed a radio technology that pierces through anything" but they didn't even do that. As a result you get one of the greatest plot holes in any movie of all time right here.