What did you watch?
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile, DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile, DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell >shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile, >DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
On 11/22/2025 5:36 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell
shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile,
DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
I'm going to do a multi-day catch up on:
Pluribus (AppleTV+) - This is probably my new favorite series. I will
recap the first 4 episodes.
SPOILERS!!!
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"We Is Us" - In the pilot episode a group of astronomers detect an alien >signal and use it to decode a new RNA sequence, which they promptly
splice into a mouse. In spite of containment protocols, the mouse bites
and infects a scientist. The infection is essentially "Invasion of the
body snatchers" and once infected the individual has a biological
imperative to infect others. It's not shown on screen, but the military >catches on to what is happening, and tries to put a stop to it. However,
the infected use a virus to infect all of humanity (they had already >infected astronauts and soldiers on submarines and leaders in key >positions). All of humanity is infected except for the show's
protagonist, Carol (Rhea Seehorn). When the virus is first unleashed
and people are being infected, they seize up for several minutes. Carol
for reasons that are unknown, remains uninfected. The process itself
causes about a billion people to die from either just side effects of
not succumbing to the virus or your on an airplane when the pilot passes >out, and so on. Once the dust settles, Carol is contacted by one of the >infected on TV. She is informed that everyone on Earth is now part of a >hive mind. But no worries, they are completely peaceful, the world is
in harmony, her life is her own, and they will be working around the
clock to figure out why she wasn't infected, and infect her too.
"Pirate Lady" - Episode 2 opens with a random woman in a foreign country
and follows as she makes her way to the U.S. to Carol's house where she >introduces herself as "Zosia" sort of a representative for humanity's
hive mind. Carol has been extremely hostile and distrustful towards the >hive minded people. Carol is also a famous author. And she realizes
that the representative that the hive mind sent to her looks like the
main character from the cover of her books. This is subtle manipulation
on the hive mind to get her to trust them. The hive mind knows every >thought and memory of every human on Earth, including Carol's family. So >they know everything about her, and what buttons to push. The hive mind
are extremely peaceful and just want to help, but when Carol yells at
one of them, it causes the entire hive to go into seizures, resulting in
11 million people dying. Although by their nature, they are all
extremely friendly and helpful, if Carol gets mad at them, they can also
die by the millions.
Episode 2 also reveals there are a handful of other uninfected people
left on Earth. And some of them speak English. Carol requests a
meeting with the English speaking survivors but to her shock and horror
when she meets them she discovers that most of them are fine with the
new situation and are looking forward to joining the collective. And
one guy has essentially started a harem, since the hive minded humans
are eager to please and do pretty much anything they are told to do, he
has a willing harem, air force one, and the nuclear football. So he's
in no hurry to save humanity either. One other detail this episode
reveals is the infected are incapable of intentionally killing any
living thing, even a fly. But they warn Carol that they can't really >interfere with what a non infected human might do to her, and it's
revealed that they need non-infected people to be in agreement in order
for the hive mind to act. This detail comes into play when the man want
to add Zosia to his harem, but Carol has to consent first; which she >ultimately doesn't consent.
"Grenade" - Episode 3 - On her way back home from her failed meeting
with normal humans Carol asks about the non English speaking survivors
and is told there is an immune man who somehow stayed off their radar
for several hours. Given how the hive mind works, with everyone knowing >everything, someone staying hidden from them for so long is unusual. The >uninfected man is a Spanish speaker living in Paraguay. Carol asks to
speak to him, but when she calls his phone number he assumes she is
infected and hangs up on her. She calls back a couple of times and the
last time she curses him out for hanging up on her. The infected would >never talk to someone that way, so that should be a clue to the guy that
she is a normal human. A bit depressed, Carol makes a snarky comment
about wanting a hand grenade and soon thereafter Zosia shows up and
gives her one. Carol doesn't think they would give her a real grenade
and pulls the pin forcing Zosia to throw the grenade out the window and >throw herself on top of Carol to protect her from the blast. Zosia is
taken to the hospital and Carol later asks another infected if she asked
for a nuclear bomb would they give her one, and they answer they would
try to talk her out of it, but ultimately, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpFrXJhU7c
"Please, Carol" - This episode opens showing the Spanish speaking man in >Paraguay and what his life is like. He has sealed himself off from the >infected and is living in a public storage locker facility. He raids
the lockers for food, but is near starvation because he refuses to eat
the food the infected bring him. It was shown in the pilot the infected >intentionally infecting people through food, so this is rational choice.
And we see the phone calls from Carol from his perspective and with
her last call when she curses him out, he realizes she might be normal.
But the main episode focuses on Carol putting together a list of how the >infected operate, which includes total honesty. When she asks if there
is a way to reverse what has happened, they don't answer so she knows,
yes. Carol then tricks the infected into giving her drugs which she
uses to make home made truth serum, she goes to visit Zosia in the
hospital and gives her the drugs in hopes of forcing Zosia to tell her
how to reverse the infection, but it doesn't go as planned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYp4JhjbMY
The show just keeps getting better and better. I am really enjoying it.
I am particularly interested in learning more about the guy in
Paraguay and how he stayed off their radar. He doesn't appear to be a >prepper, but like Carol, he does seem to be acting methodically and in
overt opposition to the hive mind.
I also suspect that if the military knew what was happening and tried to >stop it, there just might be a handful of survivors who were
successfully hidden away without knowledge from others in the government >just for this eventuality. But that would be hard to pull off since
there would be no way to predict who would get infected or that the hive >mind would pull the world wide trigger early to counter the military >response.
On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:36:36 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell
shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile,
DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
I watched the BEETLEJUICE 2 movie. Where we get a number of characters
from the first movie returning with Wynonna's Lydia Deetz character
now a host of a ghost show where she talks to the dead and a daughter,
played by Jenna Ortega, who doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks her
mom is a fraud. A rich fraud, as business has been good, but still a
fraud. Her mom's husband dies and they return to the family home to
pack things up and sell the place only to have things go sideways when Jenna's character gets into trouble and Lydia has to turn to that guy,
whose name one should not say. No, not Candyman, that's a different
movie.
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell
shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile,
DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN on the YouTubes. Starring Julia Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First Lady, gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns that energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives long enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it before the sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid, although the production values are slightly better than what you would normally see from one of these knock-off disaster flicks and Natalie Brown was looking quite lovely, so it wasn't the slog these
things usually are.
Nov 22, 2025 at 9:26:08 PM PST, shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>:
I watched the BEETLEJUICE 2 movie. Where we get a number of characters
from the first movie returning with Wynonna's Lydia Deetz character
now a host of a ghost show where she talks to the dead and a daughter, >>played by Jenna Ortega, who doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks her
mom is a fraud. A rich fraud, as business has been good, but still a
fraud. Her mom's husband dies and they return to the family home to
pack things up and sell the place only to have things go sideways when >>Jenna's character gets into trouble and Lydia has to turn to that guy, >>whose name one should not say. No, not Candyman, that's a different
movie.
Mamdani?
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN
I found it on the Plex
Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First Lady, gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns that energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives long enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it before the sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
better than what you would normally see from one of these knock-off disaster flicks and Natalie Brown was looking quite lovely, so it wasn't the slog these
things usually are.
On 11/22/25 7:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
After a really long workday (I had to stay thru 7pm to get something
done), I watched:
A weird LMN flick ("Whispers of a Secret Life"?} that I came in on late
and dozed off a little in the middle. It starred no one I've ever heard
of before, was filmed in Miami, and had an ending that I thought ruined
a previously intriguing lil' potboiler.
I'm also still catching up on the soaps I missed since I went to the
wedding last week - in GH, Laura won the mayor's race (boo!) and Sidwell >>> shoots the slimy professor dude dead right in front of Brit!! Meanwhile, >>> DOOL is getting bogged down with 60th anniversary stuff, incl. bringing
back a bunch of previous characters/cast members for visits.
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN on the YouTubes. Starring Julia >> Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it
impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that >> takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go >> fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First Lady, >> gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns that >> energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives long >> enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified
waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it before the >> sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid, although the production values are slightly
better than what you would normally see from one of these knock-off disaster >> flicks and Natalie Brown was looking quite lovely, so it wasn't the slog these
things usually are.
Yeah, Natalie Brown (and Deborah Odell too!) starred in that Canadian lesbian vampire flick ("The Last Sect") back when she was totally hott.
It made me regret that the movie lacked naked nudity... ;p
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN
DAMN YOU IAN
on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex
Starring Julia
Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it
impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that >> takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go >> fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, >> with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First Lady,
gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns that
energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives long
enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified >> waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it before the
sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So now the sun is going to sterilize the Earth in two days and we?ve got a disaster movie going. The fat mayor of Eden (hometown of the lottery
winner) decides to send the local cop (this town only has one nurse so can
it be bigger than Mayberry?) to confiscate everybody?s food and water and batteries so she can redistribute. And no one kills them for it.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the government secretly built another super shuttle drive, and our heroes that launched the first one including the world?s greatest astronaut turned lawyer need to fly it into the sun to cancel out the first crash. Don?t ask.
On Nov 23, 2025 at 10:06:19 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>> wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN
DAMN YOU IAN
on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex
Starring Julia
Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it >>> impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that
takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go
fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, >>> with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First Lady,
gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns that
energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives long
enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified >>> waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it before the
sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So now the sun is going to sterilize the Earth in two days and we?ve got a >> disaster movie going. The fat mayor of Eden (hometown of the lottery
winner) decides to send the local cop (this town only has one nurse so can >> it be bigger than Mayberry?) to confiscate everybody?s food and water and
batteries so she can redistribute. And no one kills them for it.
Yeah, that's not how it would work in my house. You come for the stuff I've carefully prepped for emergencies, you better bring some body bags and be prepared to take casualties. I'm surprised the fat mayor didn't order everyone
to turn over their guns also.
I forgot to mention that the nurse/wife of the lottery passenger was quite a hottie as well.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the government secretly built another super
shuttle drive, and our heroes that launched the first one including the
world?s greatest astronaut turned lawyer need to fly it into the sun to
cancel out the first crash. Don?t ask.
It's all about the polarity, man!
On 11/23/25 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
On Nov 23, 2025 at 10:06:19 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: >>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>> wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN
DAMN YOU IAN
on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex
Starring Julia
Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it >>>> impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive >>>> that
takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go
fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage,
with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First >>>> Lady,
gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns >>>> that
energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives >>>> long
enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified
waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it
before the
sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So now the sun is going to sterilize the Earth in two days and we?ve got a >>> disaster movie going. The fat mayor of Eden (hometown of the lottery
winner) decides to send the local cop (this town only has one nurse so can >>> it be bigger than Mayberry?) to confiscate everybody?s food and water and >>> batteries so she can redistribute. And no one kills them for it.
Yeah, that's not how it would work in my house. You come for the stuff I've >> carefully prepped for emergencies, you better bring some body bags and be >> prepared to take casualties. I'm surprised the fat mayor didn't order
everyone
to turn over their guns also.
I forgot to mention that the nurse/wife of the lottery passenger was quite a
hottie as well.
Was that Cristina Rosato?
Meanwhile, it turns out that the government secretly built another super >>> shuttle drive, and our heroes that launched the first one including the >>> world?s greatest astronaut turned lawyer need to fly it into the sun to >>> cancel out the first crash. Don?t ask.
It's all about the polarity, man!
On Nov 23, 2025 at 10:06:19 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN
DAMN YOU IAN
on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex
Starring Julia
Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it
impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that >>> takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go >>> fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, >>> with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First Lady,
gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns that
energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives long
enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified >>> waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it before the
sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So now the sun is going to sterilize the Earth in two days and we?ve got a >> disaster movie going. The fat mayor of Eden (hometown of the lottery
winner) decides to send the local cop (this town only has one nurse so can >> it be bigger than Mayberry?) to confiscate everybody?s food and water and
batteries so she can redistribute. And no one kills them for it.
Yeah, that's not how it would work in my house. You come for the stuff I've carefully prepped for emergencies, you better bring some body bags and be prepared to take casualties. I'm surprised the fat mayor didn't order everyone
to turn over their guns also.
I forgot to mention that the nurse/wife of the lottery passenger was quite a hottie as well.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the government secretly built another super
shuttle drive, and our heroes that launched the first one including the
world?s greatest astronaut turned lawyer need to fly it into the sun to
cancel out the first crash. Don?t ask.
It's all about the polarity, man!
On Nov 23, 2025 at 12:25:12 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 11/23/25 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
On Nov 23, 2025 at 10:06:19 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: >>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:36:36 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>>> wrote:
On 11/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
What did you watch?
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN
DAMN YOU IAN
on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex
Starring Julia
Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it >>>>> impossible for anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive >>>>> that
takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go
fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, >>>>> with
passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First >>>>> Lady,
gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive turns >>>>> that
energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive survives >>>>> long
enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth in amplified >>>>> waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop it
before the
sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So now the sun is going to sterilize the Earth in two days and we?ve got a >>>> disaster movie going. The fat mayor of Eden (hometown of the lottery
winner) decides to send the local cop (this town only has one nurse so can >>>> it be bigger than Mayberry?) to confiscate everybody?s food and water and >>>> batteries so she can redistribute. And no one kills them for it.
Yeah, that's not how it would work in my house. You come for the stuff I've >>> carefully prepped for emergencies, you better bring some body bags and be >>> prepared to take casualties. I'm surprised the fat mayor didn't order
everyone
to turn over their guns also.
I forgot to mention that the nurse/wife of the lottery passenger was quite a
hottie as well.
Was that Cristina Rosato?
Yes.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the government secretly built another super >>>> shuttle drive, and our heroes that launched the first one including the >>>> world?s greatest astronaut turned lawyer need to fly it into the sun to >>>> cancel out the first crash. Don?t ask.
It's all about the polarity, man!
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex Starring Julia Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David
James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it impossible for
anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that >> takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go >> fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, >> with passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First >> Lady, gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive
turns that energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive >> survives long enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth >> in amplified waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop >> it before the sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So the super shuttle on its maiden flight, which includes the first lady
and a lottery winner can go 1000 miles a minute which will put them in
lunar orbit (although at no point in time did they ever intend to orbit) in >four hours. But the solar flare puts the super shuttle in a hyper drive. >(note that it's not capable of going into a hyper drive even though they
have a display clearly labeled hyper drive, which is lifted from the
original pilot for lost in space) which increases their speed to 10,000
miles a minute which means they'll reach the moon in 20 minutes. The >president tells his big old slut science advisor she better go to Mission >Control and oversee things. She gets there in like two minutes. The White >House to to a location two hours away in Virginia. So anyway, the super >shuttle is going to slingshot around the moon but because it's going 10
times faster than it should it's not going to go 180ø and come back to
earth, but it's only gonna go 90ø and head for the sun. At 11,000 miles a >minute it will hit the sun in six days.
But they managed to fire the engines back up, but they go into 200% mode
and make it go twice as fast so now instead of 11,000 miles a minute it's >going 5000 miles a minute (wait a minute isn't that half instead of
double?) So instead of hitting the sun in six days it will now hit the sun
in 20 minutes.
You know, this isn't even mathematics. It's simple arithmetic.
So even though they've said repeatedly that the sun is eight minutes away
at the speed of light they have real time communications all the way in
and?
Holy shit, they crashed into the sun and killed them all. I love this
movie!
So the super shuttles super drive, which is case hardened against the sun, >continues on and crashes into the sun, causing the sun to shoot a super >electric beam back at the Earth, where it's daylight everywhere >simultaneously, Washington, Afghanistan, Hong Kong?
anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
I was damned by Ian to watch EXPLODING SUN on the YouTubes.
I found it on the Plex Starring Julia Ormond, NCIS: JAG's David
James Elliott, and Natalie Brown, who made it impossible for
anim8r to stand THE STRAIN.
An Elon Musk-esque genius invents a revolutionary new propulsion drive that >>> takes in solar energy and amplifies it, allowing a shuttle-type ship to go >>> fast enough to circle the moon and back in four hours. The maiden voyage, >>> with passengers chosen by lottery along with some VIPs, including the First
Lady, gets hit with a coronal mass ejection in mid-flight and its drive >>> turns that energy into a runaway trip right into the sun, where the drive >>> survives long enough to absorb the sun's energy and shoot it back at earth >>> in amplified waves of devastation. Our heroes must figure out a way to stop
it before the sun sterilizes all life on earth.
The science is pretty stupid,
That would be something of an understatement
So the super shuttle on its maiden flight, which includes the first lady
and a lottery winner can go 1000 miles a minute which will put them in
lunar orbit (although at no point in time did they ever intend to orbit) in >> four hours. But the solar flare puts the super shuttle in a hyper drive.
(note that it's not capable of going into a hyper drive even though they
have a display clearly labeled hyper drive, which is lifted from the
original pilot for lost in space) which increases their speed to 10,000
miles a minute which means they'll reach the moon in 20 minutes. The
president tells his big old slut science advisor she better go to Mission
Control and oversee things. She gets there in like two minutes. The White
House to to a location two hours away in Virginia. So anyway, the super
shuttle is going to slingshot around the moon but because it's going 10
times faster than it should it's not going to go 180?ø and come back to
earth, but it's only gonna go 90?ø and head for the sun. At 11,000 miles a >> minute it will hit the sun in six days.
But they managed to fire the engines back up, but they go into 200% mode
and make it go twice as fast so now instead of 11,000 miles a minute it's
going 5000 miles a minute (wait a minute isn't that half instead of
double?) So instead of hitting the sun in six days it will now hit the sun >> in 20 minutes.
You know, this isn't even mathematics. It's simple arithmetic.
So even though they've said repeatedly that the sun is eight minutes away
at the speed of light they have real time communications all the way in
andƒ??
Holy shit, they crashed into the sun and killed them all. I love this
movie!
So the super shuttles super drive, which is case hardened against the sun, >> continues on and crashes into the sun, causing the sun to shoot a super
electric beam back at the Earth, where it's daylight everywhere
simultaneously, Washington, Afghanistan, Hong Kongƒ??
At least it wasn't similataniously night!
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