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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 801644" data-attributes="member: 189">Yes, after a while -- that's the theory of one of the mechanisms which in fact keeps the reversal stable.  The idea is that the normal process has been at least temporarily disrupted.  Not long enough to terminally affect the planet -- but planetary time is a bitch compared to biologic time.  The big old timeclock planet couldn't care if the EM field hinked up for a year.  We, on the other hand, would take whooping like a red-headed stepchild.The nukes are used ... well, you're obviously physics-savvy enough.  Tipping-point theory.  Forget the mathematical term, but the old physics degree is a bit rusty.Yeah, I wonder why that is.  Space movies never take this kind of tech heat.  Maybe once you've clean-and-jerked suspension of disbelief for the loss of bone density, etc., everything else is cake.Mistype.  I three-finger type (which is weird for a professional screenwriter, I know) and I flip b's and m's all the time.  All my "from"s come out "form"s, too actually, which spellcheck never catches.Ayuh.  But living under one of those "eddies" would be a bitch.  We use colloquialisms for the audience but that's essentially what we say -- although once again, we're going on the assumption this is not a standard-case scenario.Speaking of junk science ... See, why couldn't the previous criticisms of the science been this literate?  Instead I got an idiot living in his mom's basement name-calling.Anyway, right again.  Geologic time isn't a factor here.  Who cares if tectonic instability occurs after we're all dead?As to 1.) we're postulating that the exposure's going to be a lot higher than even the most extreme functional conditions.  Broken system.  That leads to 2.) the problem in the movie's not from the reversal  -- but  chaotic reversal's the first suspect, and what the extrapolated effects are based on.Now, you put those relativistic guns back in those holsters, son -- you think I need that explained?  I'm aware of that estimate, but personally I think we're going to have a bitch of a time coming up with the practical mass-driver idea.And, I need to say again, all this matters not a whit to our average viewer.  It's a fun ride a lot of people are digging.  I just sleep better at night knowing I'm not treating the audience like chimps.</blockquote>

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