GRB: The Revenge

[gfish]

Randomness: If an action/disaster movie about a gamma-ray burster was to be made, what would the deus ex machina at the end be?

Assume that they (somehow) get a couple week's warning that there will be a GRB in the local vicinity -- no more than 10,000 light years away. The solution, obviously, need not be limited by reality, but the more plausible the better.

The cast should involve, but is not limited to:

• Harrison Ford as a somewhat bitter professional in some seemingly irrelevant but highly masculine trade, like a forest fire jumper or deep sea diver.


• Scarlet Johanson as an absent minded physicist.


• Jack Black as her wacky lab assistant.

The only thing I can think of is that they come up with some kind of magical forcefield which they use to shield the entire earth. That's kind of dull, on the scale of a GRB, but I don't see much available between that and some Stephen Baxter type of plot involving solar system scale engineering.

Comments

[tylik.livejournal.com]

Interesting. There was a discussion over coffee recently of actresses who shouldn't be allowed to play physicists...

[encapsulate.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a wad of the folks from "What the Bleep Do We Know?!?" to Quantuum-Wish us to existance in another galaxy.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

I want to see a caper movie about this (http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/mass/). It would be called "The Standard" and would feature this dialogue:

"How much does it weigh?"
"A kilo. Exactly."

oh dear.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I've created a monster.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

We launch ALL the lead-acid batteries on the entire planet into orbit. Side-plot involving frantic seizure of batteries (from running cars in traffic jams) and top secret research for a LAB replacement. Wacky hijinx involving overcharging Li-ion batteries that burst into flame in Jack Black's hands.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

A couple of weeks' warning? Billions of years from now, the benevolent transcended intelligences of another tool-using species would come across the charred, blackened Earth, reconstruct what happened, and resimulate everything at the point of incineration.