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Title: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: mirth on September 25, 2015, 08:17:54 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/24/why-some-scientists-are-worried-about-a-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean/
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 10:08:43 AM
IIRC you need an indian meterologist running through a rainstorm first
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 25, 2015, 11:04:25 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 10:08:43 AM
IIRC you need an indian meterologist running through a rainstorm first

I think you're thinking of 2012.
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 04:35:13 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on September 25, 2015, 11:04:25 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 10:08:43 AM
IIRC you need an indian meterologist running through a rainstorm first

I think you're thinking of 2012.

balls
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: mirth on September 25, 2015, 04:45:23 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on September 25, 2015, 11:04:25 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 10:08:43 AM
IIRC you need an indian meterologist running through a rainstorm first

I think you're thinking of 2012.

No. 2012 was neurtrinos from the sun cooking the Earth's core.  Know your Roland Emmerich disaster movies.
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 04:58:08 PM
ha, in your face, i was right!!!
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 25, 2015, 05:44:22 PM
Err...no. You're both wrong. Go watch it again.

Technically it starts with a minute or two of the solar system doing some funky lining-up thing, foreshadowing the "disaster" that was about to fall upon mankind.

What you were thinking of is the black (COUGH excuse me, "African American") scientist in the back of a taxi going through the rain, in India, to meet his scientist friend because of some "odd" readings they were getting in a mine there. He did get out and got rained on, too. So you were kinda close there 'geek, but you were likely thinking of 2012.

Also, 2012 was a laugh riot from beginning to end.
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: undercovergeek on September 25, 2015, 05:58:19 PM
dammit, foiled again  :-\
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 25, 2015, 06:11:07 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crossfitpacificcoast.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2Fancient-aliens-guy-im-not-saying-its-aliens-but-its-aliens.jpg&hash=e90557f459160ff9feee9050c6091683511556ba)
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: LongBlade on September 25, 2015, 06:14:53 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on September 25, 2015, 06:11:07 PM
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Aliens are a much better explanation than the crappy data being cited (in that article, no less) for global "warming."
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 25, 2015, 06:16:25 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on September 25, 2015, 06:14:53 PM
Aliens are a much better explanation than the crappy data being cited (in that article, no less) for global "warming."

And 2012 has more accurate science than any of that data, too.
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: JasonPratt on September 29, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
Fun fact: Day After Tomorrow was (based on an article) written by the guy who wrote Wolfen and The Hunger, Whitley Strieber: a guy who has written numerous putatively non-fiction books about being abducted by aliens, and who also wrote a book where he and a friend survive WW3 with their families and trek around a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Thus guaranteeing its scientific accuracy. :D

(That being said, The Wolfen is pretty damn good. So was his other non-traditional werewolf book, The Wild.)
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: JasonPratt on September 29, 2015, 11:24:33 AM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on September 25, 2015, 06:11:07 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crossfitpacificcoast.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2Fancient-aliens-guy-im-not-saying-its-aliens-but-its-aliens.jpg&hash=e90557f459160ff9feee9050c6091683511556ba)


No, according to the article it's somehow

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn-images.9cloud.us%2F641%2Fpiccit_humans_230802236.jpg&hash=c25d236721fc65176040745f76529dde1cae1177)
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: mirth on September 29, 2015, 11:27:18 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 29, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
Fun fact: Day After Tomorrow was (based on an article) written by the guy who wrote Wolfen and The Hunger, Whitley Strieber: a guy who has written numerous putatively non-fiction books about being abducted by aliens, and who also wrote a book where he and a friend survive WW3 with their families and trek around a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Thus guaranteeing its scientific accuracy. :D

(That being said, The Wolfen is pretty damn good. So was his other non-traditional werewolf book, The Wild.)

Oh yeah. He's the guy who wrote the book with Art Bell.
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: JasonPratt on September 29, 2015, 11:29:31 AM
Certainly DAT was the highest-grossing movie made from his work by far.  O0
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: Windigo on September 29, 2015, 02:48:29 PM
That blob of cold water interestingly enough is from the glacial meltoff from Greenland. A place I just happened to have visited this summer. Beautiful rugged country, well the south is anyway
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: Centurion40 on September 29, 2015, 02:51:33 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 29, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
Fun fact: Day After Tomorrow was (based on an article) written by the guy who wrote Wolfen and The Hunger, Whitley Strieber: a guy who has written numerous putatively non-fiction books about being abducted by aliens, and who also wrote a book where he and a friend survive WW3 with their families and trek around a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Thus guaranteeing its scientific accuracy. :D

(That being said, The Wolfen is pretty damn good. So was his other non-traditional werewolf book, The Wild.)

And co-written by Art Bell.  Just sayin'!   :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Global_Superstorm
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: mirth on September 29, 2015, 02:57:53 PM
I loved listening to Coast to Coast AM, back in the day. Weird, wacky stuff!
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: Centurion40 on September 30, 2015, 10:54:53 AM
I still listen, on Youtube.
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: bbmike on September 30, 2015, 11:02:31 AM
Quote from: Windigo on September 29, 2015, 02:48:29 PM
That blob of cold water interestingly enough is from the glacial meltoff from Greenland. A place I just happened to have visited this summer. Beautiful rugged country, well the south is anyway

Greenland! Coming soon: more green!
Title: Re: Isn't this how "The Day After Tomorrow" started?
Post by: LongBlade on September 30, 2015, 11:18:17 AM
Quote from: bbmike on September 30, 2015, 11:02:31 AM
Quote from: Windigo on September 29, 2015, 02:48:29 PM
That blob of cold water interestingly enough is from the glacial meltoff from Greenland. A place I just happened to have visited this summer. Beautiful rugged country, well the south is anyway

Greenland! Coming soon: more green!

Yay! Back to the 900s when the world was more hospitable!