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Deep Impact
It's a great movie, came out when I was seven.
I took this photo because of the interesting fact I'd realized in the movie: When the comet is split up in to two, one smaller half and one larger, their trajectories are interesting: The smaller half in the movie is expected to hit the Atlantic Ocean, which it does hit (this photo is the result of that, with the wave advancing on New York).
The larger half, although destroyed before it could do so, was expected to impact elsewhere. Guess where? Canada. In the movie, they determined that the larger half would impact the western prairies, particularly Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The tragic aspect aside, if it did hit, it would, in the movie, fill the entire Earth's atmosphere with dust for two years. What's so interesting is that it would mean that the entire plant and animal life would be killed off within months, all due to Canadian soil. The stuff farmers till near Regina would be responsible for blocking out the sun for the entire planet!
If that happened in real life, I could certainly not be thankful of my position - while Ottawa is nowhere near the prairies, we'd likely be destroyed by the tsunami wave created by the smaller asteroid - and that actually hit Earth in the movie, while the bigger comet was destroyed before it could hit. I'd much prefer to be in places like Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Calgary, or Saskatoon. Nothing happened over there, they were saved, the wave didn't get that far inland.
Deep Impact
It's a great movie, came out when I was seven.
I took this photo because of the interesting fact I'd realized in the movie: When the comet is split up in to two, one smaller half and one larger, their trajectories are interesting: The smaller half in the movie is expected to hit the Atlantic Ocean, which it does hit (this photo is the result of that, with the wave advancing on New York).
The larger half, although destroyed before it could do so, was expected to impact elsewhere. Guess where? Canada. In the movie, they determined that the larger half would impact the western prairies, particularly Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The tragic aspect aside, if it did hit, it would, in the movie, fill the entire Earth's atmosphere with dust for two years. What's so interesting is that it would mean that the entire plant and animal life would be killed off within months, all due to Canadian soil. The stuff farmers till near Regina would be responsible for blocking out the sun for the entire planet!
If that happened in real life, I could certainly not be thankful of my position - while Ottawa is nowhere near the prairies, we'd likely be destroyed by the tsunami wave created by the smaller asteroid - and that actually hit Earth in the movie, while the bigger comet was destroyed before it could hit. I'd much prefer to be in places like Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Calgary, or Saskatoon. Nothing happened over there, they were saved, the wave didn't get that far inland.