# 03/28/03:  A Perfect Day for Dreadful Reviews (Post yours! Esp. of The Core!)

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**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/03-28-03-a-perfect-day-for-dreadful-reviews-post-yours-esp-of-the-core/164851 "2003-03-28T19:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/03-28-03-a-perfect-day-for-dreadful-reviews-post-yours-esp-of-the-core/164851/21 "2003-04-06T23:30:05Z")

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Can anybody out there tell me how much energy it would take to stop the earth’s core from rotating? I’m guessin’ you’re gonna need twelve D cells at the very least …

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**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/03-28-03-a-perfect-day-for-dreadful-reviews-post-yours-esp-of-the-core/164851/22 "2003-04-06T23:38:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DMark \*  
> \*\*MSNBC liked The Core:
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> [http://www.msnbc.com/news/891102.asp?0dm=C17SL](http://www.msnbc.com/news/891102.asp?0dm=C17SL) \*\*

_snort_ They would.

I was stunned to see this headlining their review:

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> \*\* Smart \*\*thriller offers great special effects, doesn’t neglect human factor

By any chance is MSNBC owned or heavily sponsored by the company who made this film?

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/03-28-03-a-perfect-day-for-dreadful-reviews-post-yours-esp-of-the-core/164851/23 "2003-04-07T01:24:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by LonesomePolecat \*  
> \*\*Can anybody out there tell me how much energy it would take to stop the earth’s core from rotating? I’m guessin’ you’re gonna need twelve D cells at the very least … \*\*

from **The Bad Astronomer’s** review (link given above):

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> It takes a lot of energy to stop a ball that size and that mass spinning that quickly. In fact, the spinning core (if I have done my math correctly) has about 10[sup]35[/sup] ergs of energy stored up in its rotation, or about the amount of energy the Sun emits in 100 seconds. That’s a whole lot of energy. If it doesn’t sound like much, let’s convert it to megatons: it’s the equivalent energy of five trillion one megaton bombs going off. That is comfortably more than the entire arsenal of the planet; in fact, it’s thousands or perhaps millions of times the explosive energy of every single nuclear weapon on the Earth.

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