Resumo de Not Another Hollywood Cliche Part I

Not Your Average Meteor ShowerLook Mom, an Asteroid! We?ve all seen this shot done a million times before; a giant, planet-killing Asteroid or comet comes streaming down to Earth in a fiery haze that pronounces death and destruction for anyone watching. Of course given the fact that it looks absolutely stunning to the doomed populous witnessing the event, to us it seems much less creative but certainly more theatrical than most methods of genocide. This is a cliché that plagues many disaster movies. The cliché of course is the asteroid itself as it is seen in the sky by viewers on Earth. Though one may ask, ?how else am I supposed to make a movie about an asteroid and make it look kick ass?? The answer is simple ? you can?t. The fact of the matter is, is that people want to see the certainty of destruction looming over the helpless population. Directors know that if all hope is gone, the audience will be at the mercy of the film. The shear amount of drama is created by the audience as their minds toil with the scenario. God knows we don?t want to be crushed from above by a giant asteroid, but shit, what if? Technical Talk: I?m sure we?ve all seen the big-budget disaster flicks, Deep Impact and Armageddon. In Deep Impact we can clearly see a comet race across the sky before impacting the surface. In Armageddon, a preemptive strike by hundreds of meteors reigns down on Earth, flying through skyscrapers and blowing up cars and homeless people. Both of these films show visible comets and asteroids seconds before impact. The truth of the matter is the theatrical aspect of watching an object from space hurtling towards you is a Hollywood fabrication and wouldn?t really happen if we were actually doomed to be crushed. Take an asteroid for example. This hypothetical asteroid is a dark hunk of rock that is traveling at say, 25 Mil/Second. The asteroid is 100 Miles across and 250,000 miles away, (roughly the same distance as the moon). At this point the asteroid is traveling so fast that it will only take about two hours and forty-six minutes to kill us. Keep in mind that the moon is 2,160 miles across. The asteroid would then be 1/21st the size of the moon and traveling really freaking fast. Do you honestly think you could spot that asteroid in the two hours you have left to live? Of course the point of this technical information is to state that when an asteroid is coming at you at 25 Miles per second, you will not be watching it streak across the sky. When a hunk of rock is traveling that fast you wouldn?t even have time to begin to pee your pants before your life ends. So if in the future we are ever faced with this horrible fate, smoke um? if you got um? quickly, (cause you probably won?t know when it?ll hit!) Hey gang; let?s go land on an asteroid!

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