How I love a good disaster movie
Apr. 15th, 2006 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreDeep Impact
I've yet to watch this all the way through again, so these thoughts are based on the previews.
In the movie the president announces that the tunnels beneath the earth can hold 1 million people for two years and this will "preserve our way of life."
Thinking about this it kinda made me not as gut wrenched by the movie because I realised the human race will likely still die out this way.
It certainly ISN'T preserving the American way of life. That way of life involves living above ground, breeding indiscriminately and chewing up resources like there is no tomorrow. Instead they will be confined underground with limited resources intended to last two years.
And here's where I think these tunnels must have been created by creationists and politicians rather than scientists.
Two years. In two years the world is still going to be an ashen wasteland. Maybe, MAYBE there will be some rats or cockroaches scuttling around, and possibly a few weeds. The people who built these tunnels obviously didn't realise that a tree takes hundreds of years to grow to full size. That the evolution required to repopulate the earth with living organisms will take tens of thousands of years AT LEAST.
So, the million in the tunnels will survive on the two years of resources in the tunnels. Then they're screwed. Is it wrong that this makes me happy?
I've yet to watch this all the way through again, so these thoughts are based on the previews.
In the movie the president announces that the tunnels beneath the earth can hold 1 million people for two years and this will "preserve our way of life."
Thinking about this it kinda made me not as gut wrenched by the movie because I realised the human race will likely still die out this way.
It certainly ISN'T preserving the American way of life. That way of life involves living above ground, breeding indiscriminately and chewing up resources like there is no tomorrow. Instead they will be confined underground with limited resources intended to last two years.
And here's where I think these tunnels must have been created by creationists and politicians rather than scientists.
Two years. In two years the world is still going to be an ashen wasteland. Maybe, MAYBE there will be some rats or cockroaches scuttling around, and possibly a few weeds. The people who built these tunnels obviously didn't realise that a tree takes hundreds of years to grow to full size. That the evolution required to repopulate the earth with living organisms will take tens of thousands of years AT LEAST.
So, the million in the tunnels will survive on the two years of resources in the tunnels. Then they're screwed. Is it wrong that this makes me happy?
