Did any of you see movie 'Day after tomorrow was that a night mare or what, can the ocean really cover up cit

Question

Do you think that something as devastating as the ocean coming up into a large city can really happen, due tostrange weather patterns, as seen on movie "Day After Tomorrow." Did that movie put a little fear in your heart? please tell me what you think about that movie.

Oh yes, I do remember the "tsunami," it was more than a nightmare it was real,

Hi there! being the avid reader that I am, I read each reply, and I must say that each of you had valid answers, making it sooo hard for me to select the best answ. you all answered with total enthusiasm, and "expertise"many of you even gave scientific information, and I thank each of you for your input. Now I`m getting ready to read 4 responses over again, and select what might be the best of those 4, this is not easy. p.s. I do know that the whole world will not be destroyed (covered) again with a flood, the rain bow is Gods reminder of that covenant that he made with mankind, but He did not tell us that our cities were exempted from flooding.

Answer 1

A catastophic even, like a meteor colliding with earth could shift the earth's axis causing the oceans to move, so it's possible, but worrying over something as remote as that is pointless, life is too short to worry about the what-ifs and hypotheticals.

Answer 2

Good effects, bad science.

Basically, any ice that is already in the ocean is already displacing the same amount of water it would if it melted. (Take a glass of water, and put an ice cube in it, mark where the water line is and then check when it melts. It won't have moved)

So all the floating ice in the world has already raised sea levels as much as they're going to. The problem comes from the landlocked ice. All the glaciers and antartic ice pack that melts will contribute to the raising ocean. Nothing but a billion to one catistrophic event will cause them all to melt over night, and chances are, anything powerful to do that will have already have killed us, so being dead and soggy or dead and dry is the only issue.
If the ice pack melts slowly, then sea levels will rise, but an inch at a time, and when the average depth starts to rise dangerously, then people will just naturally build dykes, or berms to keep the ocean out.

Rising ocean levels will make major weather events more damaging, but a global event like in the movie is less likely than the moon being made of green cheese, and is only covered by a thin shell of rock

Answer 3

I've seen the movie and it is actually possible that such an event can occur--but not in the way it was played out in the movie (climate change).

Believe it or not, a wave about 1720 feet tall struck Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958! You can read all about it here: http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/LituyaBay/Lituya3.HTM

What caused such a monstrosity? A landslide (probably not what you expected).

Is it possible something like that could happen to New York like in the movie? YES! How? It would most likely come from an island off the western coast of Africa called La Palma.

A large chunk of land on the island of La Palma (part of the Canary Islands) could break off into the ocean and cause a wave over 3,000 feet high that would wipe out the entire eastern seaboard of the United States (it would make the wave in The Day After Tomorrow look like a mere splash).

Another "holy crap" fact: 250 years ago the Lisbon earthquake caused a small chuck of La Palma to break off into the ocean and it caused 10-14 foot-high wave that devastated the Bahamas. The destruction is well-documented and you can read more about it here: http://www.sta.uwi.edu/uwiToday/2006/May/tsunami.asp (scroll down to where it says, "Tsunami Threat to the Eastern Caribbean").

So yeah, it is *very* possible.

Answer 4

Some people's answers are pretty realistic. Think about this for a moment: remember the tsunami in Indonesia last year? Technology did detect it, but could anyone do anything about it? What would happen it there was a tectonic shift (I think that's what it is called) where earth just plain shifted along a fault line and caused San Francisco to just disappear and some mountain range would pop up?!
The movie was fictional, but the premise of Nature causing severe destruction is real.

Answer 5

its a really good movie but all the stuf it showed about earth goin into ice age over a week is all BS.....even if it happened it would 1000's of years for it to happen....and for the ocean covrin the whole city that could happen due to a tusnami or something but other then that the oceans would not just start rising and cover the whole city in a day....that movie just had enough facts for us to make it believeable other then that it was totally wrong..so have no fear by the time we have an ice age every one on yahoo rite now would probably be dead (no offense)...oh and actin was kinda cheesy..

Answer 6

Although the rapid timing of the devastation in "Day After Tomorrow" pushed the credibility level, impacts portrayed, such as extreme high water levels, catastrophic storms and the development of ice across the face of the planet are very possible. In fact, such effects have occurred before in geologic time. The effects of global warming we are now beginning to experience, such as warming ocean currents, the cataclysmic rise of sea levels and the onset of ferocious storms, are signs of things to come unless our species chooses to mend our ways. People who choose to deny the highly significant dangers we face due to the extreme infusion of carbon dioxide and other man-caused pollutants in our atmosphere--way beyond any historic level--are either ignorant or untruthful. To get a sense of the situation, I recommend watching "An Inconvenient Truth," now in theaters. I also strongly recommend remembering that there are solutions to these critical problems. Rather than dispair, however, it's important to keep hope alive and do the things necessary to treat our Mother Earth with the respect she needs and deserves.

Answer 7

Yeah I think that could really happen. At the rate gobal warming is happening we might not be far off. I live in New York City and when I saw that movie I was freaked out. It totally put a little fear in my heart. It was really realistic with how they did the graphics.

Answer 8

I did see the movie and sensationalism is a hollywood fact and not scientific.

The sheer idiocy of a movie like that which bases it's premise junk science is an assault of the senses.

We are in an interglacial period, we will be glaciated again someday, like in about 100,000-150,000 years. Not because of any caused by humans, the arrogance of that mentality is amazing. Our climate is impacted by normal solar apogee/perigee cycles which last approximately 180,000 years.

Simple huh?

Fear if you fear that kind of tripe crap coming out of hollywood it's like living with the boggie creek monster under your bed. Take a course or two in geology before you scare yourself too much and you need to start taking anti-anxiety meds to sleep.

Answer 9

i believe so. Already I think that about 30% of the ice melted. They are already starting to make dams near Venice because the water is becoming too high. It's also scary for people in Antarctica because they might be on a huge iceberg that split and might be flowing with the current
to Greenland. :(

Answer 10

Yes it did make me think about things. I think I've read that if the earth were to tilt on it's axis just a little so that the polar ice caps could melt, it would be entirely possible for the earth to be covered by water. I don't know if that's true, but it's scary to think about. We would have nowhere to go.