With the increased levels of fresh water dumped into the oceans, the increased number of people driving automobile, over population and over consumption, can the theories exhibit in the movie be reality today. Sure it's nice to burn books to survive that killer storm but is it possible for that to happen in our lifetime?
2007-09-28 15:10:58 · 9 answers · asked by Coin 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I always did hate money, it's all that everyone cares for. And for that they destroy nature. When man pays the price for his overindulgence, surely he can't pay with money. Believe it or not, that work of fiction is partially real. Thanks ofr the answers though.
2007-09-30 01:13:03 · update #1
Some of the things that happened in the movie are possible, but on a longer scale than a few days. The mini ice age, as well as rising sea levels, are possible, maybe not at the same time. I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't think it is possible to get huge tornadoes in LA. And the wave of supercoldness that immediately freezes everything is scientifically preposterous.
2007-09-29 05:34:12 · answer #1 · answered by jellybeanchick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is already happening. We are facing our own extinction because we can't wean ourselves off our blatant and wanton use of the earth's limited resources. Everyone wants an SUV because hey, gas is still available and relatively cheap. When the bills come due (like they are now) the price is going to be steep. Very soon we're going to be facing climate changes that will wreck our current agricultural system. You can't grow wheat in a damp climate. Food prices will go into the stratosphere. It's happening now and the politicians (and I consider calling someone that an insult) simply tow the corporate line. There are no leaders being elected these days. They are simply frontmen for the big corporations and if we don't start demanding that they actually start making hard decisions then we all pay the price. It's going to involve making do with less, like taking a bicycle to work instead of the car and curtailing development of old-growth forest land which is the best air-cleaning system on the planet and is disappearing at an unbelievable rate. I could go on and on. Basically, we're wrecking our planet to make a few bucks and we are all going to pay the price.
2007-09-28 22:48:54 · answer #2 · answered by kevpet2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Day After Tomorrow" is the movie version of "The Coming Global Superstorm", a book co-authored by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. The movie condenses much of the elements in the book, that the authors predicted would happen over a longer time, for dramatic effect.
However, the weather can become as catastrophic on the scale of the movie, it just hasn't happened in a very, very long time.
The point of both media was to tell people that the planet's weather is becoming unstable, and there's an outside chance that huge, severe and semi-pemanent weather patterns can happen very quickly that will disrupt our ordered lives in a big way! The museum scene about theexhibit of the young mammoth that was buried in a huge snowstorm that happened so quickly the plants it had eaten were preseverved in a glacier for thousands of years....
2007-09-28 22:34:52 · answer #3 · answered by sheik_sebir 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't know enough to answer that question but I can tell you that an ice age should be close. We might have an ice age in 100 or 1000 years, it is due any moment. There is land at the south pole which also increases the chances of ice ages(it blocks warm currents).
If an ice age comes it might not be very noticable though, due to global warming. But this doesn't mean that global warming is a good thing, ice ages are natural, global warming can kill us all.
2007-09-28 23:02:49 · answer #4 · answered by spacebendingguy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i am sorry but basketball sized hail? the world freezing over? the line in reality must be drawn somewhere. the largest hail stone ever was about 7 inches. Hurricanes happen, it rains in dry areas, and flood plains experience drought. weather is naturally radical and uneven. It is nature
Even if it could happen, we would not devolve to cavemen.
2007-09-29 04:18:38 · answer #5 · answered by travis g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hello friend,
see the answer to your question lies in the fact that if we continue doing things in the way we are doing presently(pollution, exploiting non rewenable resources) ....Yes this could happen even in your life time..... understand it like that....... when your child starts disobeying thing, get into wrong society then after a certain limit you will act to bring back things back to normal....that is the point if we cross our limits nature will revert back and things like those in the movie could happen....so as to bring all to normal again.
2007-09-29 00:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, It /might/ become reality someday.
If everyone in the world,
keeps treating the world like it is,
and if global warming,
and pollution,
and littering and smog continues,
YES,
It may come true someday.
In /our/ lifetime?
Maybe,
Maybe not.
/Probibly/ not, though,
2007-09-28 22:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not? rmb we have about more than 10 million ppl living in tis earth, if everyone keeps littering or doing anything tt destroys the earth, the chances of it will get higher..
2007-09-29 05:44:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that would happen billion years from now... i dont think that could happen even if there is global warming... itshard to believe thinking that could happen in our time...
2007-09-28 22:21:19 · answer #9 · answered by xouze z 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋