spiralofhope

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/

An comet’s path crosses the earth’s, and a shuttle crew is to rendezvous with it to plant nukes to divert its course.

With a decent story and good characters, the science proves, unfortunately, fundamentally flawed. It’s still a good watch and doesn’t show its age.

• 1:30 — It’s so odd seeing actors when they’re young.

• 2:45 — Tuscon, Arizona United States

  • Adrian Peak Observatory appears to be fictional.
• 4:00 — That appears to be an IBM Model M keyboard keyboard.
• 6:00 — Jolt Cola
• 7:00 — They could have just had him die, but the package flung out of his car.
• 7:15 — Washington, D.C. United States
• 10:00 — Chlorine, and Chloe is a great name.
• 11:30 — Secretary of State
• 12:45 — MSNBC
• 17:00 — FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation

• 17:45 — Manhattan Project

  • Nuclear weapon, Fission bomb
• 18:30 — President of the United States
• 19:30 — Journalism ethics and standards
• 20:45 — WebWindow? Haha..

• 21:15 — www.search.msnbc.com

  • University of California
  • Paleontology
• 21:30 — E.L.E. is made up. Instead, see Extinction event and Global catastrophic risk.

• 28:00 —

  • Comet
  • Meteoroid
  • New York City
  • Mount Everest
  • Impact event

• 30:15 —

  • Moon landing
  • List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999
• 30:30 — Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

• 33:00 — Soft ball is a very soft question, sometimes pre-arranged, made to have the interviewee look knowledgeable.

  • That question is predictable and easily prepared-for.
• 35:00 — Yes, when you’re famous they let you grab them right in the pussy.
• 35:15 — Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Chernobyl disaster
• 39:00 — It’s (also) about having a variety of understandings, training and experience, to create more overlap.
• 40:45 — Why the fuck would anything be in Cyrillic script?
• 46:30 — Why would they approach it from the tail side? Wouldn’t it be best to do so from the dark, and the leading (sunset) edge, so they’d have the most time?
• 51:45 — Why would the ship be so far they’d have to fly it over? It would save the minutes of walk-time I guess.
• 52:15 — I guess they only had one mole..
• 56:00 — So they did have more than one..
• 57:15 — Carnegie Mellon University
• 57:45 — He’s blind.
• 1:02:00 — Wow, that’s the woman who played Tasha Yar on Star Trek – The Next Generation – (1987 show).

• 1:06:00 — I think you mean no women near menopause will be selected.

  • Perhaps only girls and women between 16 and 30 who are fertile. Hey, may as well be direct about a huge reason people are being saved. Savage.
• 1:12:00 — All of this is really confusing if they were so confident about the surface-to-space missiles being successful.

• 1:15:15 —

  • Moby-Dick – (1851 book), by Herman Melville
  • Huckleberry Finn is a character from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – (1876 book), by Mark Twain.
  • Baker and the seim(?)
  • Melville(?)

• 1:25:00 — What.. is he going to walk back?

  • 1:28:15 — So he somehow hitched a ride..
• 1:30:00 — Tidal wave = Tsunami
• 1:31:00 — Extinction event
• 1:36:45 — I see a Budget Rent a Car truck and a bunch of U-Haul trucks.
• 1:39:00 — Does he know where he’s going? This is all manner of silly..
• 1:43:00 — I’ve missed you too.. but you’re mother was a bitch that kept me from visiting..
• 1:43:45 — Thanks to Russian dash cams, I know a hell of a lot about what a passing strike would be like.
• 1:47:00 — .. riiight, they’re so dead.

• 1:51:00 — That wouldn’t do a fucking thing. The amount of mass entering the atmosphere would still heat it enough to light all the forests of the world on fire.