On 11/24/2023 10:20 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:19:16 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
<jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 5:42:59?PM UTC-7, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Thanksgiving Arguments
https://xkcd.com/2858/
“Title text: An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my
family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and
various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for >>> her annual tradition of watching it.”
Noooooooooooooo ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2858:_Thanksgiving_Arguments
I see that the movie is still popular enough that the copyright owner has managed
to keep pirated copies off the Internet.
And I found this YouTube video that explains the problem with that particular
movie. *Really* bad science.
Hey, but it *is* true that:
- the Sun has a magnetic field
- the Earth has a core made of iron, which can conduct electricity,
- the Earth rotates
- therefore, the Sun induces electric currents in the Earth's core
that go around in circles, and this is how the Earth developed a
magnetic field in the first place.
So the Earth's magnetic field does have something to do with the rotation
of the Earth's core. At least they got *that* part right, although everything
else from there on got badly garbled.
Didn't catch it when it came out, but it is on my list so I'll be
watching it some day.
I could use a good [1] Thanksgiving movie. Somehow, I don't think this
will be it.
[1] "good" in the sense that /Tokyo Godfathers/ is a good Christmas
movie.
"The Core" has Muerte ("Undercover Blues", Stanley Tucci) in it so that
is good, he carries the movie as a snotty version of Carl Sagan. The
science is not good. The rock cutting lasers would be awesome if they
were real.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/
Lynn
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