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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:
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.
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.