# Spoil Waterworld for me, please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-waterworld-for-me-please/140426>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 4, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-waterworld-for-me-please/140426 "2002-12-04T14:04:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-waterworld-for-me-please/140426/21 "2002-12-04T23:31:35Z")

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I really didn’t like this movie, and don’t really think it’s worth losing too much sleep over, BUT…

Any possibility redistributing the weight of the polar ice caps as they melted would cause massive geological instability? Essentially levelling the Himalayans?

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-waterworld-for-me-please/140426/22 "2002-12-05T02:00:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fairblue \*  
> The music from it is good, IMO. I have the CD and I enjoy it. It’s sort of “modern Celtic,” at least to my ears… \*\*

It seems like they use the Waterworld theme a lot for movie trailers. Along with the themes from Aliens, Dragonheart, Stargate and Legend of Bagger Vance, Enya’s Book of Days (or the theme from Far and Away if you prefer), Bethovan’s Ode to Joy (aka “Die Hard” theme) and the chorus to Carmina Burana (aka “Conan music” but not really), it’s probably one of the most overused movie trailer / TV commercial music.

Anyway, that’s my little bit of music trivia.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-waterworld-for-me-please/140426/23 "2002-12-05T06:48:03Z")

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Sucked.

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-waterworld-for-me-please/140426/24 "2002-12-05T07:32:01Z")

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> \*Originally posted by javaman \*  
> **I thought that windmill sailing boat was pretty interesting, and wondered why no one actually seems to have built such a boat.**

I thought the windmill was just a power generator. Was it implied that the windmill powered the boat?

In high school I built a model boat powered by a windmill. It didn’t work at all - it would just drift downwind. Maybe it was just the poor quality of the windmill (I used something similar to those windspeed indicators, with hemispherical “blades”) but it’s not as easy as it looks. This was long before _Waterworld_ came out, by the way.

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