"The Core" Misconception

When they traveled to the center of the earth in the movie, "The Core", wouldn't gravity have been so strong that it would have pulled their ship apart?

 

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Nah, the net gravity in the middle of the earth is zero. The gradient isn't strong enough to pull it apart.

 

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Don't even try arguing the physics of "The Core", almost everything that was done in that movie isn't actually possible. It makes absolutely no sense.

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html

 

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Lol, 'almost' everything?

Although that link did give me a few chuckles... "the youngest, coolest, and best looking characters are in no real danger."

 

hypothesis,'
"the center of the earths gravity is the culmination of the gravity of all the particles that make the earth"

I couldn't resist ( ha )

 

If gravity is zero at the center of the earth and there was a lot space(a hollow earth?), couldn't things float like they do in outer space?

 

They could and they would.

Of course, the Earth would collapse... but that's beside the point!

 

Yes, the movie's science was fairly ludicrous though & though - especially the threatened global disaster. I mean, the Moon's surface recieves full Solar wind and microwave radiation, but it's not hot enough to melt steel! After decades, the various spacecraft left there since the 1960s have yet to show ANY sign of collapsing like the Golden Gate Bridge did in The Core.

However, if you can put aside the nonsense and think of the movie as almost pure fantasy, IMHO it is still fun to watch.

What disappointed me most was that, if you grant the existence of a machine which could survive under the temperature's and pressures of the Earth's deep interior, why didn't the filmmakers exercise a little more imagination... and portray life inside the Earth's molten core? How about creatures composed of hyperdense crystalline alloys, like natural unobtanium? The molten iron, to them, could be like seawater.
It would have been wonderfully ironic, after the eco-friendly images of humpback whales swimming around Virgil during its initial descent, to have a similar scene during the plunge through the incadenscent hyperfluid.

And why didn't the 2 surviving terranauts doa full James Bond-style ending?

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How do you know? (aside from the laser reflector, of course)

 

Damn! You got me. I may as well admit it now: I'm an alien infiltrator walking among you. I have my own private starship, disguised as a Rover. I was on the Moon just last month for the total eclipse...

 

Wow! Did you get any snaps of Earth during totality? Can you post them up?

 

I'd rather not end up carrying on a drawn-out explanatory dialogue, like RawThinkTank...

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=35341&page=4&pp=20

Haven't developed my photos yet.

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Yeah, I loved the way 'The Core' implied that the earth's magnetic field was with only thing preventing solar radiation from melting the earth's crust.

 

Here's an image of the Earth eclipsing the Sun!

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Cool picture, but I wonder why the artist painted in lens flare?

 

So one would think of it as a photograph..?

Same applies here.
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2988&stc=1