Wonderin

[ericcoleman]

coat_of_brown touched on this earlier today. This is kinda my variant.

What is your favorite "they didn't do their research did they" moment in movies or TV?

Mine, I think it has to be the episode of the X-Files (which I am too lazy to go look up at the moment, but I think it's in season 1) that happens, partly, around Lake Okoboji in NW Iowa.

I personally was not aware that there were lovely mountains in NW Iowa.

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[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Last year, when I was teaching plate tectonics, we culminated our unit by watching Dante's Peak with Pierce Brosnan and the lead from Terminator, tearing apart all the science.

The Cascade mountain had runny, fast moving basalt lava, like how Hawaiian volcanoes flow. Andesite mountains do produce ash, it is a *lot* thicker than in the movie, and it is more like mud (hence, a lot of mud flows). Hard to breathe.

Boiling the couple in the hot springs? Water itself does not turn colors to be red hot! And when it does get that hot, it like, produces clouds of steam as it boils...

And the truck would like, totally be on fire if it drove over lava, fer shur, fer shur...

But great fun!

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

And the idea of Tommy Lee Jones' movie _Volcano_! Um, volcanos happen when plates slide under one another, deep in the Benioff Zone. Plates sliding past each other produce earthquakes, not orange bubbling lava flows able to be stopped by concrete construction walls.