Never mind that this likely would do nothing more than mess up all our compasses, until we compensated.
Well, we'd lose the Earth's magnetic field for a while, leaving us vulnerable to cosmic rays or something.
There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
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tommyrot - Jun 24, 2009 4:26:38 pm PDT #2578 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Jun 24, 2009 4:56:29 pm PDT #2579 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wouldn't that just give everyone superpowers?
Gris - Jun 24, 2009 5:10:48 pm PDT #2580 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Wouldn't that just give everyone superpowers?
Yep. And one particularly sick individual has the superpower of creating GIANT waves.
They have to save SOMETHING for later trailers, and that's mostly that it's a secret superhero movie for extra summer blockbuster gravy.
Steph L. - Jun 24, 2009 5:21:27 pm PDT #2581 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wouldn't that just give everyone superpowers?
If everyone's special, then NO ONE is special.
(Grr.)
Jessica - Jun 24, 2009 5:32:52 pm PDT #2582 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If everyone's special, then NO ONE is special.
Fuck that, I want my superpowers!!
Sean K - Jun 24, 2009 5:32:59 pm PDT #2583 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So instead, all non-special people will be squished. Leaving only the special people.
Um....
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 24, 2009 5:45:17 pm PDT #2584 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Why is it that I suspect the filmmakers never quite got that the magnetic poles reversing doesn't actually flip the planet like a flapjack in a skillet so Antarctica ends up facing the North Star?
Really, a complete temporary collapse of the magnetosphere could be pretty catastrophic what with all the cosmic rays and solar wind particles making it down to the surface. But I suppose "And over the next twenty years half the population died of cancer!" doesn't have quite the immediate thrill of "OMGWTF! Wave taller than Everest!"
billytea - Jun 24, 2009 6:27:51 pm PDT #2585 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The DVD I have out from Red Box has an early 2012 trailer that actually looks kinda cool... monks in Tibet sounding the bell of their mountaintop monastery as the giant tidal wave swells up over the Himalayas.
Oh, it's that movie! I saw that trailer in the cinema earlier this year. That Tibetan tidal wave was awesome! If totally unbelievable.
Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2009 7:56:30 pm PDT #2586 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So (500) Days of Summer is hilarious and sweet and sad and lovely, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are great, and I recommend everyone sees it whenever the hell it actually comes out.
Strega - Jun 24, 2009 8:31:48 pm PDT #2587 of 30000
Within its first few seconds, the trailer for 2012 identifies the Mayans as mankind's oldest civilization.
IJS, if you're finding fault with the movie's physics, I don't think you're in their target audience anyway.