Netflix just bought one of the biggest movies in the world

BGR ^ | 02/21/19 | Andy Meek

[D_Idaho]

Yes, yes!!! My favorite episode. Lois Nettleton still rocks my world every time I watch it. Wait... What were we talking about? ;-)

[SaveFerris]

[No Godzirra?]

It’s worse than that!

No Bette Midler!

She was taken out by an Improv shrimp during a softball game!

[SaveFerris]

Look, some liberal labeled it “climate change” - good grief - the Earth’s orbit changed taking it closer to the Sun.

Not “climate change” - lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28v9JmyTlA

[Simon Green]

You only need to move the Earth beyond the orbit of Mars to get it in to the new Goldilocks zone.

In the film, they eventually accelerate the Earth to a speed of 600 miles per second. To put things in perspective, the energy required for that is roughly equal to all the energy the sun emits in a year.

Totally doable, right?

[SaveFerris]

[ a red giant. ]

Well, that should be easy enough to fix with a tax or something.

[Gene Eric]

>> people trying to save earth from being destroyed by the sun

Controlled atmospheric pollution shield?

[Pontiac]

Totally doable, right?

Sure, why not.

The question is how long will it take to reach that speed?

If you are in a crisis situation and you only have a few months to do it.

You’re toast (given the movies premise).

The idea of the ‘stellar engines” intrigues me. The article mentions 10 thousand of them. How exactly do they work? How do they attach to the Earth? How do they manage to pull or push the Earth away from the Sun? How do they manage this without stopping the rotation of the Earth (which in of itself would be catastrophic)?

[FredZarguna]

If the Chinese are smart--and so far there's been very little evidence coming from their filmmakers that they are--they'll make straight actioners and other kinds of film that have no underlying social messages; Hollywood will be forced to make decent pictures again, or be destroyed. Most audiences are sick of "scifi" films with gay love stories and multiply gendered or politically correct heroines.

The Star Wars franchise has been completely wrecked by political correctness. The Chinese have a huge opening if they can figure out their audiences.

[SaveFerris]

Been a long time since I saw it. So the Earth was moving away from the Sun.

Cool.

I suppose, literally.

[Pontiac]

The Chinese have a huge opening if they can figure out their audiences.

I don’t know, most Americans are too lazy to watch a movie with subtitles.

Most dubbed Chinese movies I have seen are almost unwatchable. Even the movies that were described as classics.

[ifinnegan]

“As someone has already noted, “Space: 1999” was just as silly.”

Never watched that.

[caww]

China wants the focus on the destruction of the planet, doesn't matter if heat or cold, sun or moos as long as it's audience is ‘afraid’.....as it still will play into “Extreme Weather” which is now the new buss word for ‘climate change’ ie: Global Warming.

Reading sub-titles is a pain though.....the few Chinese ones I've attempted isn't worth the aggravation so I never get thru them.

[Pontiac]

In the film, they eventually accelerate the Earth to a speed of 600 miles per second.

The only way I can think of to make this work is to somehow attach the “Stellar Engines” to the Moon and use it as a Gravity Tractor. This would require starting and stopping the engines at precise times in the moon’s orbit. I can only guess that this might change the moon’s orbital with who knows what detrimental effects.

The only thing is that I can only guess that this would take hundreds or thousands of years to accomplish.

There is also of course the hazard that you could rip the Moon out of Earth orbit (another catastrophe).

[JudgemAll]

Out in China, they are allowed real science, not this political garbage.

[Daniel Ramsey]

This reminds me of the famous sci fi novelist, Edward E ‘Doc’ Smith, who wrote the classic space opera series Skylark of Mars and The Lensmen.

Its a shame Hollywood couldn’t have done this, nope their long term agenda is something else.

And in all honesty i am interested in this film and would look forward to getting an English dubbed Bluray or 4K version.

[wardaddy]

Dubbing is awful

Subtitles much better

[Gamecock]

[Sirius Lee]

A team of heroes builds “ten thousand stellar engines” to propel earth out of the solar system in the hope of finding a new home in space

Good news! The Earth isn't going to burn. The bad news: It is going to turn into a solid ball of ice. And hey, it's not a ripoff of 1999 okay.

[mewzilla]

A win-win for Netflix?

Not if it’s still shedding subscribers like my cats do their fur...

[bgill]

I’ll pass.