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From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-12 (Wednesday)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:34:47 -0800
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On 2/14/2025 10:11 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:47:55 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2025 at 1:16:31 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:32:50 -0800, suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/13/2025 6:23 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>   Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>>>>   On 2/13/2025 7:40 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>>>>>   Yesterday, I worked in the morning, and ran errands in the afternoon,
>>>>>>>   but still had enough time to get through soaps, and to binge a couple
>>>>>>>   more episodes of "Paradise":
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #3 & #4. Reddit was all saying how "episode #2
>>>>>>>   was a letdown, but episode #3 was so much better", but I don't think
>>>>>>>   that was true at all - the best part about episode #3 was giving
>>>>>>>   Sterling K. Brown a chance to shine; but otherwise, I thought it was on
>>>>>>>   par with ep #2. But episode #4 I thought was much better, finally
>>>>>>>   delivering some answers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   snip.
>>>>>>   So this is a show worth watching?
>>>>>   
>>>>>   No
>>>>
>>>> Maybe not for you, but it might be for Arthur.
>>>
>>> I've been enjoying the show. Sure, there are holes in the plot but
>>> overall it's been an enjoyable ride. It also helps that the show isn't
>>> intended to last for many seasons.
>>
>> SPOILERS BELOW
>>
>> I'm having a problem with the outside apocalypse. From the data the president
>> pulled up on his special iPad, apparently global warming caused the ice sheets
>> in Greenland and Antarctica to melt enough that the decreased weight on the
>> earth's crust allowed volcanoes to erupt that had been "plugged" by the weight
>> of the ice, including a heretofore undiscovered super-volcano under the
>> Antarctic ice. This then melted all the ice that was left, which inundated the
>> earth and turned it into Waterworld. We're treated to several shots of just
>> the tip of the Washington Monument obelisk sticking up above the waves, which
>> means the world's oceans have risen not just the seven inches that even the
>> most dire Warmists predict, but over 500 feet.
> 
> So the apparent explosion we saw from the plane in the pilot was
> actually a volcano erupting? Okay... Yeah, the rise in the oceans is
> crazy.
> 
> That said even if all that happened it didn't fit with the shots we
> got of the four that went outside and were killed by Billy. That
> showed a cold world with radiation which fit with the idea of a
> nuclear winter. If that was happening then the ice couldn't have
> melted.
> 
> 
> 
>> The problem with that is that even if you melted every bit of ice on the
>> planet and condensed every drop of water out of the air, there's not enough
>> water on earth to account for that kind of inundation. So where did all this
>> extra water come from? And does this mean that in addition to being in a huge
>> bunker underground, there's a massive ocean above them, too? Where are they
>> getting their air?
> 
> No, they clearly wouldn't have that problem. Remember they are inside
> a mountain. Further we saw the two kids head into their equivalent of
> the aerodrome in San Francisco with all the planes in storage. That is
> clearly just a shelter that opens into the air. So the place was built
> into a mountain well above sea level.
> (Clearly no one bothered to make it all fit together. The shot of the
> airplane storage facility clearly suggest the air is fine to breathe
> and that there was plenty of sunshine coming through the windows.
> Which goes against what the four found with a gloomy cold outside.
> Which goes against a world where all of the ice has melted.)
> 
> Oh, you ask about where the water came from. There's been talk about
> huge pockets of water stored deep underwater. So maybe that water was
> freed as the volcanoes erupted and the land settled. lol.
> 
>> And none of this explains why the team they sent up to explore was talking
>> about intense levels of radiation. Where did *that* come from? Was there a
>> nuclear war in addition to a flooding catastrophe? And if so, why is the
>> Washington Monument still standing?
>>
> 
> Yeah, what we saw in the pilot from the plane window made me think
> there was a nuclear war. As that explosion we saw from the window sure
> looked like the effect of a nuclear explosion.
> 
Could have been a combination of events. And where is the bunker 
located? I figured in the Rockies somewhere and the outdoor scene was 
just a regional blizzard and not indicating the entire world was like that.