James Barclay

Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

this also looks good

Sunshine (2007)
The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun's natural state.

and the main site http://www.sunshinedna.com/

dragonkillernz · Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 365 Location: New Zealand

That's a pretty unbelievable premise.

The outer-most layer of the sun can reach 1,000,000?K, whereas Tantalum Hafnium Carbide, one of the compounds most resistant to heat known to humanity, melts at 4488?K. The outer-most layer resides about 100 times the earth's diameter from the core.

Good luck trying to get a bomb into the core of the sun with those odds stacked against you.

Not to mention, you'd need an unbelievable amount of energy to make a difference to the core. According to Wikipedia, the power in the core of the sun is 383 yottawatts (that's right, yottawatts!). Which is apparently equivalent to 99 trillion megatons of TNT. By comparison, the most powerful bomb on record, which was exploded by the Soviets in 1961 (Tsar Bomba) was a 50 megaton explosion, or 5.4 yottawatts. That's damn powerful, but not compared to the core of the sun.

If I was a scientist in this scenario, I'd focus on trying to get humanity off the Earth and colonising new planets, or somehow developing ways for the Earth to cope without sunlight. Or a mixture of both perhaps.
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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

Oh for God's sake, it's a damn movie!!!!!! Rolling Eyes

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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

errr...i 2nd that...its a F I L M !! fiction...next you will be telling me the raven are real and living in brixton and running a pub?

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

I've seen stranger things happen.... Razz

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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

but your odd Laughing

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

True. Still, the movie looks like decent popcorn fodder. Razz

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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

I love a no brainer movie, sometimes you want to go and escape reality for a few hours...this movie is how you do that!!

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

And yet you didn't like 300... Rolling Eyes

Sunshine does look like fun.
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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

no 300 should have had content, but it was all about arty angles and slo mo scenes, action is supposed to be fast so you dont have time to analyse it and think to much.

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

You must have watched a different movie. Slow-mo dismemberment is fun! Twisted Evil

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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

it must be that im a history buff, so like to see it done proper like!! Cool

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

IT WAS BASED ON A COMIC BOOK YOU GREAT LUMP!!!!! Razz

Anyway.... any slow-mo limb loss in Sunshine?? Very Happy

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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

but the story is based on history...you lump.

Its also one of my fav stories from history.

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

Yes, it was BASED on history. It took the bits it liked, like the heroism and so forth, and left out the bits they didn't, such as the homosexuality and the fact there were about 7,000 as opposed to 300.
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