Re: Q Re: "By Dawn's Early Light" Movie Scene?

I've got the movie on DVD and the Buff pilots hear the carrier, U.S.S.
Midway, calling a mayday and saying they were abandoning ship, and one of
the Hornet drivers saying "Holy Hell, the carrier's been torpedoed!" In the
book, the carrier was indeed nuked-a low KT burst that vaporized everything
but the bow and stern, and those parts quickly sank.
"Dan" <B2431B@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Matt Wiser wrote:
On Dec 22, 4:45 pm, Rob Arndt <teuton...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In the part where the B-52 pilots are deploying the anti-blast
curtains and Rebecca's character sees part of the nuclear flash, did
she lose her right eye for good? She said she could not initially see
out of it but through the rest of the movie is looking at Powers Booth
and talking like it was OK again.

But when the President's helo is exposed to the nuke flash, he becomes
blind permanently.

What's the story?

I like this film better than "Fail Safe" but not as much as "Dr.
Strangelove".

Rob

p.s. Also, in the end the B-52 is low on fuel and just flying out into
the horizon... what were they going to do, just run out of fuel and
crash/ditch/or kill themselves?


Okay: depends on how far away she was from the flash, and how long her
retina was exposed to the flash. There were folks exposed to the
atmospheric tests back in the 1950s and early 60s who neglected to
wear their goggles, and most suffered some temporary flash blindness,
but they did recover. It depended on how far away the person was from
the burst.

Second, their destination wasn't mentioned in the movie, but in the
book Trinity's Child, on which the movie was based, they were headed
for Fiji as fuel wasn't going to get them to French Polynesia. But
they did offer the F-18 pilots "Palm Trees, Coconuts, Native Girls"
after the carrier was sunk.

Note how the carrier was sunk rapidly and within view of the F-18
pilots. If it sank that fast was it nuked? Nope, no flash, how convenient.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired


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