Re: The first Day The Earth Stood Still
- From: "Avoid normal situations." <byend.removethisbityousillyperson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Nov 2008 22:36:59 GMT
In rec.arts.sf.movies trag <trag@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 29, 12:46 am, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
Time for a field trip to Hollywood, where we will teach a class for
all producers, directors and writers explaining the differences
between asteroids, planets, comets, stars, galaxies and universes.
We'll also have a brief panel on why asteroid belts/fields are not
like a hail storm.
Our second class will deal with the origins and effects of radiation
and what half-life means to you and the substance to which it
applies. We'll show a film explaining how the processes that produce
radiation can also cause stars to explode, and show the limitations on
such explosions. At the open bar afterwards there will be a short
presentation on black holes and their proper use.
For advanced students we'll teach a third segment about the laws of
conservation of energy subtitled "Things That Explode, Things That
Don't and What Makes Stuff Go". and how you cannot power anything with
water, unless it is also either a fusion engine or a device for simply
converting matter into energy.
Finally, for the more geeky students in our series, we'll teach a
class on scale and how to make simple estimates of how big stuff
should be using the arithmetic you should have learned in elementary
school, or in the case of our student body, with a consultant and a
hand calculator. We'll include segments on how much land it takes to
feed a person, family, town, city, nation, and how transportation
becomes increasingly important as the population concentration
increases. We'll spend at least an hour on a detailed analysis of the
weight of water and the effects of moving it around. Rock and steel
will be considered. With the cooperation of the Department of Energy
we'll have a field trip to the Nevada desert where we'll demonstrate
that large enough masses of steel or rock (such as the mothership on
"Independence Day") will be scorched, but otherwise shrug off the
effects of a nuclear blast.
*smirk*
I'd attend.
--
alt.flame "from start to finish" Special Forces
"The Panama Canal is actually a thing of the past, and Nature in her works
will soon obliterate all traces of French energy and money expended on the
Isthmus." -- Scientific American, 1891
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