# "The Day After Tomorrow" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969 "2004-05-13T16:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/41 "2004-05-14T21:34:54Z")
**El\_Kabong** I meant I don’t think it’s possible for one to hit west the Sierra Nevada’s. And the SLC one was pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/42 "2004-05-14T21:47:18Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Coupla years ago, a tornado touched down in downtown Salt Lake City. A video clip of it shows up all the time on TLC. Don’t see what’s so out of the question about the same happening sometime in LA. I’m just saying. Tornados have been in the LA Basin over the years (albeit very rare). I remember one tornado back in the '70s taking off half a roof of a Levitz Funiture store in La Verne, CA. Of course, it was a weak tornado, but nonetheless, a tornado. But in a preview of the movie, I saw a tornado tracking up the Hollywood Hills to take out the famous “HOLLYWOOD” sign (as IF the tornado had a mind of it’s own), I automatically thought “What a load of BS!”, and therefore, I will skip another incredulous grasp at movie dollars. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/43 "2004-05-14T21:56:42Z")
Well, I stand corrected on the whole west of the SN’s. But still find it incredulous for one to hit downtown L.A. Of course, I’m not a geologist, so take it for what you will. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/44 "2004-05-14T22:21:10Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > Tornados have been in the LA Basin over the years (albeit very rare). I remember one tornado back in the '70s taking off half a roof of a Levitz Funiture store in La Verne, CA. Of course, it was a weak tornado, but nonetheless, a tornado. . Great, it’s real comforting to know that if a tornado hits west of the Utah, it’ll likely be in my back yard. As though Earthquakes wasn’t enough to deal with… ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/45 "2004-05-14T22:49:36Z")
I can’t wait for this movie! It has a great 1950s-sci-fi-last-man-on-earth feel to it. 🆒 I really hope its not an action movie and focuses instead on the societal impact of such a disaster, and on the inviduals’ actions towards surviving. ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/46 "2004-05-14T23:19:32Z")
There’s a good article about this in PopSci. Basically they say that the scenario is sorta plausible, but sped up many times. The storms wouldn’t be nearly as bad either. Melting glaciers could possibly stop the atlantic conveyor, which would mean a new ice age, and it would take as little as 10-20 years to set in if the geologic record is any indication! The setting in of the ice-age in one week as the movie describes is pushing things a bit however. The only thing that is implausable is the speed and severity of the changes. As far as we know, the next ice age could be a few decades away. In the article the meltwater affecting the ocean current was likened to a finger on a light switch. You keep up a steady light pressure until suddenly it flips…but you can’t predict exactly when. Or even if. I’m going to see this becuase I like storms and it’s not a _totally_ ( details wrong, gist might be right) imlausable disaster movie like “the Core”. ( Which I laughed at the trailer for and went on a personal 'tell everyone I know this is a rediculous movie" campaign.) ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/47 "2004-05-15T01:35:45Z")
I’ll be there opening day. It’s fun seeing stuff blow up big time, and I enjoy CGI effects when they’re well done. I liked _The Core_, in a fifties-pseudo-scientific nonsense-sci-fi-movie kinda way. It appears to be Los Angeles that gets reduced to rubble; New York gets hit by a big wave and then frozen, though the big wave thing taking out New York was done in _Deep Impact_. New York and Los Angeles do get the brunt quite a bit in movies like this, as well as San Francisco. Maybe filmmakers should be targeting Miami or Dallas for destruction to provide some variety. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/48 "2004-05-15T02:06:43Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Well, I stand corrected on the whole west of the SN’s. But still find it incredulous for one to hit downtown L.A. Of course, I’m not a geologist, so take it for what you will. Because when you want to know about tornados, the first person you go to is a _geologist_. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/49 "2004-05-15T03:30:12Z")
> [@AmericanMaid](#): > > this movie is brought to us by the master of suckdom who brought us the masterpieces of “Godzilla” and “Independence Day”. Take comfort in the fact that, while Devlin & Emmerich were the “masterminds” behind _Independence Day_, only Emmerich had a hand in _The Day After Tomorrow_. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/50 "2004-05-15T03:47:46Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Second, Al Gore is set to have a “rally/press conference” in NYC after the movie is shown. This isn’t entertainment people, it’s an agenda. Al Gore invented global warming, you know. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/51 "2004-05-15T03:58:47Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Al Gore invented global warming, you know. No, he and Tipper inspired global warming… ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/52 "2004-05-15T05:02:36Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Al Gore invented global warming, you know. And I tried so hard to avoid saying that myself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/53 "2004-05-15T15:07:56Z")
Note: Al Gore never said he “invented the Internet”. We’re supposed to be fighting ignorance here. My girlfriend wants to see this movie, so I guess I’ll go. But what’s that nonsense in the trailer about there being a world-changing storm 10,000 years ago? The last ice age ended about 50,000 years ago, right? I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. For an interesting (well, strange) movie set in a near-future ice age, I’d recommend Robert Altman’s 1979 movie _Quintet_, with Paul Newman. It was filmed in winter at the frozen-over site of the '72 Montreal World Expo. Unfortunately, it’s not available on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/54 "2004-05-15T15:31:22Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Note: Al Gore never said he “invented the Internet”. We’re supposed to be fighting ignorance here. True, but explaining the context of Gore’s statement, extrapolating that tho the common claim that he said he “invented the internet” and then applying that to global warming is a bit much for a throwaway joke, donchathink? ;j ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/55 "2004-05-15T15:44:14Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > \ '72 Montreal World Expo. \ [nitpick] Actually, the Expo was in '67[/nitpick] ---
**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:** [May 15, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/56 "2004-05-15T16:28:42Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > My girlfriend wants to see this movie, so I guess I’ll go. But what’s that nonsense in the trailer about there being a world-changing storm 10,000 years ago? The last ice age ended about 50,000 years ago, right? I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. [The Last Ice Age](http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/iceage.htm) > [@](#): > > Four major continental glaciations are recorded in North America. The last (Wisconsin) began about 70,000 years ago, and ended 10,000 years ago. At the peak of the last glaciation, approximately 97% of Canada was covered by ice. Animals and plants that once lived in glaciated regions survived in refuges in Alaska and the Yukon, possibly on Banks Island, and in the northern United States. Probably the thickest ice (approximately 3,300 m) occurred over Hudson Bay. We are presently in an interglacial phase that could last for another 10,000 or more years. That may be the only thing in the movie they get right. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/57 "2004-05-15T20:09:42Z")
Really, 10,000 years ago? What the hell was I thinking about? Man, you think you know something… As I get older, I actually seem to know less and less. I don’t know why somebody doesn’t just remake _When Worlds Collide_. Actually, I can think of a few reasons why they don’t, and perhaps it’s just as well, since they’d probably ruin it. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/58 "2004-05-16T00:25:09Z")
Note also that Gore never claimed that he and Tipper inspired _Love Story_, only that a certain newspaper reported that. He was entirely correct; it was the newspaper that made the mistake. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/59 "2004-05-16T00:52:09Z")
Geez…may I offer humor lessons? If this were a serious political discussion and someone threw the internet and Love Story things out, I could see the need to step in and correct the misimpression, but they were obviously jokes. Gore isn’t running for President, Vice-President, Senator or even dogcatcher. Gore jokes are kosher with no worries about quashing his chances… ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969/60 "2004-05-16T06:45:37Z")
If Gore’s appearances on Futurama are any indication, he’s a pretty easy going guy. “In my book, Earth in the Balance, or the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow/244969.md?page=4)