I saw it the other night on CBS, so I wonder just how accurate the numbers are about the tidal wave at the end...the height, how fast it is & how far it reached inland. So if that were to happen, how much of it are they really getting from scientific fact based on a some lab model?
I'm sure that in reality, the wave height would be huge and probably move fast, but 600 miles inland, (as the movie said), even for an impact from space?
(I figured I'd just put this question in the Astronomy section, by the way.)
2006-07-02 23:01:23 · 7 answers · asked by cassicad75 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
While there were some inaccuracies in that movie, I think such a tidal wave is realistic, given a big enough impact in the ocean. The distance inland would depend on the slope of the land. For a flat low coastline I can believe 600 miles.
2006-07-03 02:01:32 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wave form which is filled with water, would moved across its medium (i.e. the water) at a very high rate of speed building momentum. It's height would be quite a few hundred feet. So, yes, it would move very very far inland-even several hundred miles.
The only problem I ever saw in that movie was at the end when all those little pieces of the asteroid burn up in the atmosphere. There were so many that were big enough to burn for a long time (for the nice dramatic light show effect), that wouldn't it have pretty much scorched that side of the planet from the resulting cumulative temperature increase? I mean they didn't have the pieces blink right out like a "shooting star" they burned across the whole sky.
2006-07-03 09:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know the movie was scientifically correct... 600 miles seems a lot for me too, but then if you remember the tsunami in 2004...
2006-07-03 06:05:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a movie intended to entertain and falls in the category of science fiction....
2006-07-03 06:05:47 · answer #4 · answered by grayxenon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw Deep Impact and found it extremely boring.
2006-07-03 06:14:26 · answer #5 · answered by rweller654 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the movie was pathetic
why does evey disaster in a movie take place in the USA?
2006-07-03 09:06:05 · answer #6 · answered by lost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i saw it i thought it was dumb
2006-07-03 06:04:29 · answer #7 · answered by i_love_orange_crush_05 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋