Garret Torre
Dr. Cunningham
BIO-101-107
April 17, 2017
Deep Impact Film Review
Deep Impact is about a comet that is hurtling towards Earth and could possibly destroy the earth. The U.S. government tries to keep it a secret until a reporter by the name of Jenny Lerner discovers what is really happening forcing the president to announce his plan. An astronaut Spurgeon “Fish” Tanner and his team will land on the comet and plant explosives, hopefully changing the route of the deadly comet. The team plans to plant nuclear bombs on the comet to deter its course. When the bombs detonate, the larger pieces miss Earth while the smaller piece lands in the sea creating a tsunami. In preparation of the impact, limited numbers of civilians are given shelter in special bunkers. The people are selected by lottery together with 200 000 scientists, doctors, soldiers and other officials. …show more content…
When it hits the ocean, it produces a huge tsunami with waves around 400 meters high. The tsunami floods coastal areas including New York City and Washington D.C. Comets are made up of dust and ice, they come from very far out in the solar system. (1) Sometimes a comet may hit Earth and land in the ocean causing a tsunami but is rare. In this scene, a comet strikes the ocean creating a large tsunami. The size of the tsunami is realistic based on the size of the comet.
Comets come from a far region of the solar system known as the Oort cloud (1). When comets approach the sun, they heat up and release particles from their surface, the particles are sent into the air from the wind from the sun, this makes the comet tail. Comets have two very different tails, one is made up of from gas and the other of dust. The Oort cloud consists of trillions of leftover comets from when our solar system was
Dr. Cunningham
BIO-101-107
April 17, 2017
Deep Impact Film Review
Deep Impact is about a comet that is hurtling towards Earth and could possibly destroy the earth. The U.S. government tries to keep it a secret until a reporter by the name of Jenny Lerner discovers what is really happening forcing the president to announce his plan. An astronaut Spurgeon “Fish” Tanner and his team will land on the comet and plant explosives, hopefully changing the route of the deadly comet. The team plans to plant nuclear bombs on the comet to deter its course. When the bombs detonate, the larger pieces miss Earth while the smaller piece lands in the sea creating a tsunami. In preparation of the impact, limited numbers of civilians are given shelter in special bunkers. The people are selected by lottery together with 200 000 scientists, doctors, soldiers and other officials. …show more content…
When it hits the ocean, it produces a huge tsunami with waves around 400 meters high. The tsunami floods coastal areas including New York City and Washington D.C. Comets are made up of dust and ice, they come from very far out in the solar system. (1) Sometimes a comet may hit Earth and land in the ocean causing a tsunami but is rare. In this scene, a comet strikes the ocean creating a large tsunami. The size of the tsunami is realistic based on the size of the comet.
Comets come from a far region of the solar system known as the Oort cloud (1). When comets approach the sun, they heat up and release particles from their surface, the particles are sent into the air from the wind from the sun, this makes the comet tail. Comets have two very different tails, one is made up of from gas and the other of dust. The Oort cloud consists of trillions of leftover comets from when our solar system was