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Good old 'Horizon' ;)

- the main difference with the 'real life' theory and the film is that allegedly in real life it would happen a lot more slowly, like over a 100 years or so. :)

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I love Horizon

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and?

:D

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will be sunday

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I have friends in the Southampton Oceanograhpy Centre (SOC) that do a fair amount of climate research / modeling.
and well they go along with the whole film is flawed thing. and that its really only fiction.
From what i've seen from posters and trailers and such imho it looks like a load of rubbish. But then i am a scientist and so wont fall for the extendid scenes of peril etc. and would be sat there the entire time pulling faults in the story.

Regarding the whole salinity thing and the ice caps diluting the sea water is rather unkown and an option. As if you get salt water cold enough its still going to be that salt water. Although some of will fall out of solution alot of it will remain.
As for the whole tidal wave thing, that would have to start off fairly near the coast of america as the wave itself will decay rather rapidly.
Another thing i remember having a discussion about is the whole sea levels rising thing due to ice stuff melting. As per bouncy thing to get somthing to float you must displace an equal amount of mass of water below the surface to float the combined weight.
As most of you will know the density of ice is lower than that of water.
If all the ice in the polar regions were to be melted the mean rise in sea level will be next to nothing as the amount of volume of water increased / the surface area of all the sea's is rather small.
In the order of mm's i think if not less.

K

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Watched this film this afternoon - amazing special effects - good story line. Not a bad film really. My Verdict: 7/10.

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Great film with some nice special effects.
Definately worth seeing on the big screen at the cinema for added goodness.
A few bits that you wonder, how could this be happening, but this is a film, and its meant to be like that, so its good fun.

I'd give it 8/10

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I went to see it last night, & that totally sums it up for me. :tu:

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I enjoyed it :)

Thing about the salinity of the water, surely as the temperature dropped, more ice would form and so the salinity would go back up and the "north atlantic current" would start up again?
And is the north atlantic current the same as the gulf stream as I'm sure the NAC was shown to come up africa to us, then head for America, where as I'm pretty sure the gulf stream comes up from the gulf of mexico across away from america to us, hence it's name...

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BAh, they destroyed Canada.

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You say it like it's a bad thing eh? :D
j/k

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Fantastic film - 10/10.

I get the feeling that Emmerich was getting us back for the poor reviews on The Patriot - who's the first person we see who freezes to death? That's right - a British soldier (mind you, it did look very cool *ahem*) :)

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yeah 10/10, loves films like that when something destructive happens to earth, and theres always a fine girl ;)

and the bald kid with cancer looks like the 'there is no spoon' kid out of the matrix

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Well - Me and the missus thought we would go and watch this at our local showcase the other day so off we went. When we got there it was sold out :(

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I took my mrs. to see it last night, she wanted to see Shrek 2, I wanted to see this ... I wish I'd listened to her, this film rates as one of the worst I've ever seen, there are better "made for TV" disaster movies, we left way before the end and decided on the pub for entertainment instead.