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OK, sometimes I'm too logical...
Feb. 25th, 2006 07:24 pmI just had a moment's gloating over spotting a logical fallacy in a TV show.
The Fairly Oddparents, to be exact.
The Fairly Oddparents, to be exact.
Feb. 25th, 2006
I have a theory...
Feb. 25th, 2006 10:37 pmThe people who make movies for SciFi actually do hire scientific consultants for their films. They then proceed to lock them in closets and film whatever hooie comes into their demented little skulls.
Case in point: tonight's epic Disaster Zone:Volcano in New York. Not only is this a bald-faced rip-off of Volcano with some of the same characters and set-ups, but it is filled with atrocious science.
Let's start with the concept. A volcano in New York. NYC sits on a massive slab of granite. It's why Manhattan has stood up under the weight of all those buildings for the last two centuries. How solid is the bedrock? On 9/11 the collapsing towers barely cracked the strata. I don't care how deep you drill, you are not going to get great gouts of magma shooting up all over the place. That requires pressure. The reason the Hawaiian volcanoes are so active is that Hawaii sits on top of a magma plume that creates a thin spot in the crust. New York sits on the geological equivalent of a bank vault door. Without pressure, nothing will force the magma to the surface.
Then we have a project drilling seven miles into the Earth's crust. Said project appears to be operating in midtown. Now, I'm no expert in NYC, but I think someone would notice several thousand tons of dross being piled up on the sidewalk. No9t to mention the constant tremors caused by massive drilling.
Oooohh.. we just had shots of lava fountaining out of manholes. If there is enough magma under pressure to send it shooting forty feet into the air, the streets would be melting long before any lava breached. I walked over an active lava tube in Hawaii. There was twenty feet of igneous rock between me and the magma flow and my boots were melting. The boot polish i used was running off and the soles were turning to goop. Standing fifty feet from an open fumarole was intolerable.
These idiots are coming within feet of lava flows without oxygen.
I won't even go into the awful writing. This is in the "so bad it's good" category.
Case in point: tonight's epic Disaster Zone:Volcano in New York. Not only is this a bald-faced rip-off of Volcano with some of the same characters and set-ups, but it is filled with atrocious science.
Let's start with the concept. A volcano in New York. NYC sits on a massive slab of granite. It's why Manhattan has stood up under the weight of all those buildings for the last two centuries. How solid is the bedrock? On 9/11 the collapsing towers barely cracked the strata. I don't care how deep you drill, you are not going to get great gouts of magma shooting up all over the place. That requires pressure. The reason the Hawaiian volcanoes are so active is that Hawaii sits on top of a magma plume that creates a thin spot in the crust. New York sits on the geological equivalent of a bank vault door. Without pressure, nothing will force the magma to the surface.
Then we have a project drilling seven miles into the Earth's crust. Said project appears to be operating in midtown. Now, I'm no expert in NYC, but I think someone would notice several thousand tons of dross being piled up on the sidewalk. No9t to mention the constant tremors caused by massive drilling.
Oooohh.. we just had shots of lava fountaining out of manholes. If there is enough magma under pressure to send it shooting forty feet into the air, the streets would be melting long before any lava breached. I walked over an active lava tube in Hawaii. There was twenty feet of igneous rock between me and the magma flow and my boots were melting. The boot polish i used was running off and the soles were turning to goop. Standing fifty feet from an open fumarole was intolerable.
These idiots are coming within feet of lava flows without oxygen.
I won't even go into the awful writing. This is in the "so bad it's good" category.
It's that bad.
Feb. 25th, 2006 10:46 pmI'm rooting for the volcano at this point. These people are too stupid to live.