:eek: Seriously?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That’s the worst plot twist I have ever heard anywhere. Oh, man. This sounds like it makes 10.5 look like Citizen Kane. Now I must see it.
Mwahaha! 
My brother, bless him, knew that there was a mass limit, poor thing just got confused about what the mass limit was. I had to go get his own text book to provide him with a cite. 
Fair enough. I didn’t see much of that, I was too busy laughing at the main premise.
Smeghead, seriously, that’s the “twist”, its lame, its unconvincing, and crap.
Oh, yes, I think so! We’re leaving out all the subplots. Tia Carrara plays a government agent of some kind, who turns on eeeevil Lance Henricksen when a meteor (!?) strikes St. Louis, where her family lives. (We know this because, apropos of nothing, 300-year-old Luke Perry askes her, ‘So, how’s your family?’ after the meteor (!?) hits St. Louis.)
There’s some kind of side plot about some criminals escaping from a prison transport or a chain gang or something.
And there’s 300-year-old Luke Perry’s family, and their Uniformed Black Maid. His wife and daughter are afraid at his disappearance, but UBM kept reassuring them that she knew everything would be alright.
Oh, and it was inexplicably set in some kind of alternate-world Australia, where 50% of the denizens have American accents.
Goodness gracious, sounds like a true Masterpiece.
No, just someone who is rather confused about just what you can realistically ask God for.
There are two types of supernova – one of them is produced by gas transfer onto a white dwarf from a binary companion, the other by a massive star at the end of its main-sequence life.
When I saw the thread title I panicked thinking they had re-relesed the James Spader film :eek:
Our sun exploding would be preferable.
Whddyamean “instantly?” We’d have, like, at least 8 minutes from the moment the Sun blew until we were all rendered extremely volatile!
(Figuring out how to recognize the supernova before the first shockwave hits us – 8 minutes or so later – is left as an exercise for the screenplay writer. Sounds like it would be right up his/her alley :rolleyes: )
8 minutes is “more or less” instantly, its not even a kilosecond! 
I’m an extra-galactic astronomer, I count anything less than half a Hubble time as “short”, so what do you expect?
So, the Hallmark Channel is trying to make us aware that the Sci-Fi channel’s made-for-TV movies are really quality SF?
Here is the IMDb page, which contains the verbage:
The goofs page only contains this:
So there’s room for more.
But, at aphelion, the distance is ~507 light seconds; so, depending whether by kilosecond you mean 1000 or 1024, it may or may not be more than half a kilosecond. Or something.
Where are you from, again!? :eek:
:eek: So, the brilliant scientists are about as smart as Earl and his friends in the Y2K show.
It’s comforting to know that the stupidity of Hollywood scriptwriters exceeds the bounds of my imagination.
Just a warning for anyone who hasn’t as yet had the specatacular pleasure of meeting Ms Angua… she really knows all this stuff, inside out and backwards. She’ll even turn up in the pub with her bag stuffed with Ph.D research papers and graphs showing weird scientific gobbledeygook, and I’ll bet she could have a chat with Stevie Hawking that would leave him impressed. So, if you haven’t met her and I tell you she’s like this, you’d picture some kind of spekky super-nerd geek with ‘Miss Boring’ written on her forehead who only talks in equations, right? Wrong! Wronger than King Wrong of Wrong Land on ‘Let’s be more wrong than ever before’ day. She is always the loudest person in the pub (heck, the world), usually the daftest (and the shortest, but we don’t mention that), sinks pints with admirable gusto, always gets her round in, talks faster than a racing commentator, makes excellent baked goods as well and can win any fact-based argument, even when not 100% sober (which is, ahem, fairly often).
So if it’s about stars and suns and crap like that, whatever she says, it’s right.
Pshaw. Factors of two are nothing! And either way, it is less than a kilosecond.
A rocky planet, in a nonedescript planetary system in one of the outer spiral arms of an average barred spiral galaxy in a rather dull, quiet cluster, with surprisingly quiet inhabitants.
blushes at Ianzin
astronomer n. 1. Someone who is happy if the order of magnitude of the exponent is right.