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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 08:23 AM Apr 2015

Make the next disaster-movie more realistic: [View all]

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/these_guys_are_true_believers_cnns_bill_weir_calls_out_delusional_climate_deniers/

"Yeah, it’s amazing. I’ve always said that in these big-budget disaster films, where there’s a meteorite hurtling toward Earth and Bruce Willis needs to save humanity, they always cut to the concerned citizens huddled around TVs around the world, all buying into that idea. They never show the guy who doesn’t believe it’s coming. As all the science pours in, it was just really intriguing to me to try to figure out how these guys think around that evidence."




I want that.

* I want scenes of the hero saving planet Earth alternated with pundits ranting how this is a huge fraud. Special-interest "scientists" and their asteroid-deflection-lobby sucking on taxpayer-money!

* Isn't it suspicious that they hold the press conference on the asteroid-impact right at a time when the President is faced with a scandal?

* How do we even know whether this asteroid is real? Hoax or fraud?

* The asteroid-impact would primarily devastate several countries the US doesn't like anyway. She we really spend US-taxpayer-money to stop that asteroid?

* That asteroid is God's wrath for... something! Deflecting him would be blasphemy! The endtimes are coming and the believers will go to heaven. (=> Religious extremists try to sabotage the world-saving mission.)

* Maybe this is all a plot by feminazi-liberals and communist lizard-people to get rid of real manly men for their impending alien invasion, because that's what the asteroid really is!

* Are you aware of the economic damage your disaster-preparation and panic is causing?

* Wall-Street is tanking, people are investing their money in something other than printed paper and its Obama's fault for not reassuring the market!

* Buy guns, gold-coins and our original "Glenn Beck survival packages(TM)"!

* Do you have a motive for overstating the severity of the situation? WE ARE JUST ASKING QUESTIONS!

* Breaking News: Obama trash-talking Christianity again: In his globally broadcasted speech how mankind must work together now, he mentioned that we are all equal, implying that Christians are as good as murderous islamic terrorists.

* Was this waving-gesture a secret message for the impending alien-invasion?

* Reckless Obama uses world-wide catastrophe as a pretext to ram his partisan, extremist policies through Congress.

* Going Galt: Why bunkers for the 1% are the right thing to do.

* This will be Obama's "Katrina". Asteroid-gate.

* The right thing to do, would be for the US to launch an invasion in the Middle-East and secure the oil-fields, while those countries are still reeling with the consequences of the impact.

* The only way to prepare the US for a post-apocalyptic economy is to gut industrial and banking-regulations right now. And stop the handouts. Those moochers will day anyway in the sandstorms, harsh winters and famines. We also should sell public property to rich investors so they have the possibilities to kickstart the economy again after the impact.
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Speaking of, that was one very realistic part of Contact. trotsky Apr 2015 #1
If there's ever a remake, they can use a Faux News lookalike set and graphics ... eppur_se_muova Apr 2015 #2
"Contact" was pretty good... AlbertCat Apr 2015 #3
Kubrick used these images edhopper Apr 2015 #4
Did he? AlbertCat Apr 2015 #5
Can't argue edhopper Apr 2015 #6
But that's what is so great about the film. AlbertCat Apr 2015 #7
I for one edhopper Apr 2015 #8
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