Surviving
Survival: Land, Sea, Jungle, Arctic
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Can a scientist who is in the 'know' tell me honestly how long we have before the Gulf Stream is fcuked and enough fresh water from the arctic melts and dilutes the Atlantic Conveyer and stops it and makes the film 'Day after tomorrow' (NASA, by the way, from what I've heard wasn't happy about some of the claims that film made - bit too near the truth apparently - and wanted it changed - a bit like the U.S. Army wanted the 'plausible liability' dialogue & Area 51 scenes changed in the film 'Independence Day') a reality! When do I need to by a Parka coat and my eskimo boots from the ex-military clothes shops etc., and to brush up on my survival training - I know it can't be too long now and it's not a case of IF but WHEN - could a good quality meteorological scientist and/or scientists give me the bottom line please !
It's not flooding I'm worried about - it's FREEZING - SUPER FREEZING that concerns me - after that Gulf Stream comes to a complete standstill coz it's getting diluted - I haven't been convinced otherwise yet and some seem to have conveniently fogotton about the Boxing Day Tsunami ! As for being paranoid - I wonder how many people know that Hollywood's R+D budget is bigger than NASA'S !!!
it seems that the Brazilian rain forests have had their first drought in recorded history. it also seems that the El Nino may fix itself permanently off the coast of Peru and if it does the worlds weather will be dramatically affected.
be afraid, be very afraid!
If all the ice melts, won't that add more pressure to the sea bed? and won't that release methane trapped in the sea bed? adding more greenhouse gasses. I understand that the pressure of the sea on the sea bed pushes the land upwards. Your guess is as good as mine as to what will happen then, won't be much fun for us is my guess.
be terrified!
It's not just the arctic that's melting
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Can a scientist who is in the 'know' tell me honestly how long we have before the Gulf Stream is fcuked and enough fresh water from the arctic melts and dilutes the Atlantic Conveyer and stops it and makes the film 'Day after tomorrow' (NASA, by the way, from what I've heard wasn't happy about some of the claims that film made - bit too near the truth apparently - and wanted it changed - a bit like the U.S. Army wanted the 'plausible liability' dialogue & Area 51 scenes changed in the film 'Independence Day') a reality! When do I need to by a Parka coat and my eskimo boots from the ex-military clothes shops etc., and to brush up on my survival training - I know it can't be too long now and it's not a case of IF but WHEN - could a good quality meteorological scientist and/or scientists give me the bottom line please !
It's not flooding I'm worried about - it's FREEZING - SUPER FREEZING that concerns me - after that Gulf Stream comes to a complete standstill coz it's getting diluted - I haven't been convinced otherwise yet and some seem to have conveniently fogotton about the Boxing Day Tsunami ! As for being paranoid - I wonder how many people know that Hollywood's R+D budjet is bigger than NASA'S !!!
The ice caps won't melt and even if this scenario did happen there would be no flooding. Why not? Take some cold water and put it in a measuring jug. Note the exact amount and then put it in the freezer overnight. Take the jug out next morning and note the measurement. Is it above or below the measurement when it was just plain water? The Earth's water levels will actually drop if the poles melt!
The scenarios of disaster films are pure fiction and cannot happen as they have been shown, or they would have happened long ago! The Earth's temperature was warmer long long ago. Europe had a mediterreanean temperature everywhere. There were no cold places as we know them now. There is too much evidence to support that the whole earth was warm at one time, therefore the anomaly is the actual frozen poles lying on top of land.
Apart from the occasional really bad winter, storms, hurricanes, etc, etc, which are all natural occurences there is no need to panic or increase your stock of survival supplies. Man's inhumanity to fellow men in time of war and in times of great need, as demonstrated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will cause more harm than nature will manage to do.
Area 51 is a devolopment site, and the public 'interest' in that site has only served to provide the U.S. government the means to increase their military budget against a potential threat that does not exist. This is the reason the Cold War lasted so long. The U.S. knew that Russia would not attack Europe, but the implied risk was used to further their requests for an increased military budget to meet the non-existent threat.
So relax and chill out and enjoy the good weather while it lasts. We complain whenit rains and also when it is warm, like now.
Barracuda VS Kingpin. Winner gets The Russian.
Who takes it?
Some stats:
Barracuda
Height: 7'0"
Weight: 320 lbs
Skills: Serial killing, terrorism Excellent unarmed combatant, large size, near superhuman strength, weightlifting
The Barracuda has undergone full US army special forces training, and all the coarses that it includes.
Hand to hand Combat: Barracuda was trained in hand to hand combat, and how to incapacitate or kill his opponents as quickly as possible.
Marksmanship: Barracuda was trained in Combat shooting and sniping, as well as advanced marksmanship. Even with only one eye, hes a crackshot.
Survival Training: Barracuda has been trained to not only survive, but also to fight in desert, arctic, mountain, tropic, and urban environments.
Amphibious training: Barracuda was trained in Combat swimming, combat diving, underwater combat, and amphibious assault.
Airborne Training: As well as full HALO, HAHO,LAHO and LALO jump training, Barracuda has also been taught freefall, ecstatic, paragliding, and heliborne insertion.
Medical skills: Barracuda was trained in medicine and field surgery, and has extensive knowledge of how to treat wounds.
Language/cultural training: Barracuda was taught the language and customs of several cultures, most likely Latino and Arabic ones.
Demolitions training: Barracuda was taught how to handle explosives in any environment, as well as under water.
Black Ops training: Barracuda was taught various forms of stealth and infiltration tactics. He is also an experienced escapologist.
Strength level
U.S. Army ROTC classes: Hand to hand combat (1st degree black belt Jujitsu)- Combative fighting arts, boxing training
Equipment
Jason hockey mask, graffiti cans, bulletproof vests, guns
Transportation
Hotrods
Weapons
Military explosive weaponry (C-4, grenades, land mines ect.), assault weaponry (Handugns, Machine Guns ect.), heavy ordnance weaponry (rocket launchers), hood knives collection (Mostly switchblades), Machete
Kingpin:
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 450 lbs
The Kingpin is composed almost entirely of muscle that has been developed to enormous size, much like a sumo wrestler, and he possesses peak human strength. His vast bulk shields him from many forms of injury, either providing padding or causing penetration wounds to only strike him relatively superficially. He has extraordinary skill in hand-to-hand combat, specializing in a number of martial arts, including sumo wrestling. His fighting skills and unusual agility for a man of his size compensate for a great difference between his human level of strength and that of Spider-man when the two engage in unarmed combat (Spider-man also has severe inhibitions about using his strength against an opponent without superhuman powers for fear of killing him or her.) The Kingpin is a criminal genius and a highly skilled planner and organizer. He employs numerous henchmen, scientists, and even superhumans, almost all of whom are fiercely loyal to him due to dedication, fear, or both.
The Kingpin possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. The Kingpin is virtually as strong as it is possible for a man of his age, height, and weight to be without having superhuman strength. His great bulk does not consist of fat but of muscles that have been developed to enormous size, as in a sumo wrestler. The Kingpin can lift (press) approximately 650 pounds.
Weapons
The Kingpin sometimes carries a walking stick which contains a concealed laser beam weapon that fires a short pulse of 300 watts, enough energy to vaporize a handgun. The walking stick can also be used to fire a concentrated spray of sleeping gas. The Kingpin's diamond stickpin also contains a small, highly compressed container of sleeping gas which is effective when fired directly into an opponent's face at close range. The Kingpin uses the stickpin gas as a last resort.
The Russian
Height: 7'2"
Weight: 573 lbs
Following his resurrection and subsequent reconstruction at the hands of General Kreigkopf’s paramilitary organization, The Russian possessed a various superhuman abilities.
Bodily Reconstruction: Following his ressurection, the Russian's natural physiology was rebuilt using a combination of extremely durable metal alloys and plastics.
* Superhuman Strength: Much of the Russian's musculature and ligaments were replaced with extremely durable, but lightweight plastics, increasing his already prodigious strength to higher levels. While the exact limit of his superhuman strength wasn't known, it is known that it didn't exceed 10 tons.
* Superhuman Stamina: The Russian's dramatically altered and enhanced artificial musculature produced less fatigue toxins during physical activity than a normal human, granting him an unknown degree of superhuman stamina. He could, however, exert himself at peak capacit
The Russian, because I'm russian and we haul ass
Barracuda VS Kingpin. Winner gets The Russian.
Who takes it?
Some stats:
Barracuda
Height: 7'0"
Weight: 320 lbs
Skills: Serial killing, terrorism Excellent unarmed combatant, large size, near superhuman strength, weightlifting
The Barracuda has undergone full US army special forces training, and all the coarses that it includes.
Hand to hand Combat: Barracuda was trained in hand to hand combat, and how to incapacitate or kill his opponents as quickly as possible.
Marksmanship: Barracuda was trained in Combat shooting and sniping, as well as advanced marksmanship. Even with only one eye, hes a crackshot.
Survival Training: Barracuda has been trained to not only survive, but also to fight in desert, arctic, mountain, tropic, and urban environments.
Amphibious training: Barracuda was trained in Combat swimming, combat diving, underwater combat, and amphibious assault.
Airborne Training: As well as full HALO, HAHO,LAHO and LALO jump training, Barracuda has also been taught freefall, ecstatic, paragliding, and heliborne insertion.
Medical skills: Barracuda was trained in medicine and field surgery, and has extensive knowledge of how to treat wounds.
Language/cultural training: Barracuda was taught the language and customs of several cultures, most likely Latino and Arabic ones.
Demolitions training: Barracuda was taught how to handle explosives in any environment, as well as under water.
Black Ops training: Barracuda was taught various forms of stealth and infiltration tactics. He is also an experienced escapologist.
Strength level
U.S. Army ROTC classes: Hand to hand combat (1st degree black belt Jujitsu)- Combative fighting arts, boxing training
Equipment
Jason hockey mask, graffiti cans, bulletproof vests, guns
Transportation
Hotrods
Weapons
Military explosive weaponry (C-4, grenades, land mines ect.), assault weaponry (Handugns, Machine Guns ect.), heavy ordnance weaponry (rocket launchers), hood knives collection (Mostly switchblades), Machete
Kingpin:
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 450 lbs
The Kingpin is composed almost entirely of muscle that has been developed to enormous size, much like a sumo wrestler, and he possesses peak human strength. His vast bulk shields him from many forms of injury, either providing padding or causing penetration wounds to only strike him relatively superficially. He has extraordinary skill in hand-to-hand combat, specializing in a number of martial arts, including sumo wrestling. His fighting skills and unusual agility for a man of his size compensate for a great difference between his human level of strength and that of Spider-man when the two engage in unarmed combat (Spider-man also has severe inhibitions about using his strength against an opponent without superhuman powers for fear of killing him or her.) The Kingpin is a criminal genius and a highly skilled planner and organizer. He employs numerous henchmen, scientists, and even superhumans, almost all of whom are fiercely loyal to him due to dedication, fear, or both.
The Kingpin possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. The Kingpin is virtually as strong as it is possible for a man of his age, height, and weight to be without having superhuman strength. His great bulk does not consist of fat but of muscles that have been developed to enormous size, as in a sumo wrestler. The Kingpin can lift (press) approximately 650 pounds.
Weapons
The Kingpin sometimes carries a walking stick which contains a concealed laser beam weapon that fires a short pulse of 300 watts, enough energy to vaporize a handgun. The walking stick can also be used to fire a concentrated spray of sleeping gas. The Kingpin's diamond stickpin also contains a small, highly compressed container of sleeping gas which is effective when fired directly into an opponent's face at close range. The Kingpin uses the stickpin gas as a last resort.
The Russian
Height: 7'2"
Weight: 573 lbs
Following his resurrection and subsequent reconstruction at the hands of General Kreigkopf’s paramilitary organization, The Russian possessed a various superhuman abilities.
Bodily Reconstruction: Following his ressurection, the Russian's natural physiology was rebuilt using a combination of extremely durable metal alloys and plastics.
* Superhuman Strength: Much of the Russian's musculature and ligaments were replaced with extremely durable, but lightweight plastics, increasing his already prodigious strength to higher levels. While the exact limit of his superhuman strength wasn't known, it is known that it didn't exceed 10 tons.
* Superhuman Stamina: The Russian's damatically altered and enhanced artificial musculature produced less fatigue toxins during physical activity than a normal human, granting him an unknown degree of superhuman stamina. He could, however, exert himself at peak capacit
It is obvious!The Russian strikes down Kingpin with one punch before he pulls out his gun(s)!Then he faces Barracuda
The Russian:Barracuda at last we meet!
Barracuda:I am going to rip out your heart!
The Russian:Yeap!Look at your Heart!!!
Barracuda:Ooooh crap!!
You know what happened!
The Russian:I think I won
And they lived happily ever after!
Can a scientist who is in the 'know' tell me honestly how long we have before the Gulf Stream is fcuked and enough fresh water from the arctic melts and dilutes the Atlantic Conveyer and stops it and makes the film 'Day after tomorrow' (NASA, by the way, from what I've heard wasn't happy about some of the claims that film made - bit too near the truth apparently - and wanted it changed - a bit like the U.S. Army wanted the 'plausible liability' dialogue & Area 51 scenes changed in the film 'Independence Day') a reality! When do I need to by a Parka coat and my eskimo boots from the ex-military clothes shops etc., and to brush up on my survival training - I know it can't be too long now and it's not a case of IF but WHEN - could a good quality meteorological scientist and/or scientists give me the bottom line please !
I'm going to have to start using that bloody spellchecker - correction - it's not 'by' a Parka coat - it's 'bUy' a Parka coat
One of my companies produces long range forecasts for business development strategies and we are looking at 2050 -2100 for property development sites, we don't look at anything less that 200 feet above sea level which rules out over 2000 miles of southern English coast line and London. Personally I would scrap the Parka and go into welly production!
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The Grey
About: Many probably know Carnahan as the upstart testosterone-filled director who broke out with “Blood, Guts, Bullets, and Octane.” He went on to make the well-received “Narc,” which led to a pre-couch-hopping call from Tom Cruise to become the next director in his Mission Impossible super-franchise. Things fell apart, Carnahan followed up with the all-over-the-place dud “Smokin’ Aces,” and that promising future seemed to be slipping away. Thank God for the ghost of Mr. T, because Carnahan jumped onboard the director-for-hire train and took on The A-Team. It was there that he apparently pitched Bradley Cooper his long gestating project about a group of plane crash victims trying to survive a pack of wolves. Cooper signed on and the movie is apparently a go (though where in the Bradley Cooper go-picture cycle it is, I’m not sure). In the middle of it all is Ottway, a sad, frustrated, conflicted man who it so pains to be away from the woman he loves, that he simply can’t take it anymore. Combine that with being out in this vast depressing ice desert, stuck with all these cro-magnums, sunlight peeking out two hours a day at most, and you understand why he’s out here, away from the other men, with a gun to his head, considering ending it all. But something…some unknown force…brings him back from the edge. He’ll live. At least for one more day. Lucky for him and the others, the company is flying the team back to Anchorage for a little recuperation. So everyone jumps on a 737, and they take off into a blizzard. Ottway drifts off, but less than an hour into the flight, there’s a large jolt, a twist, a turn, metallic wheezing, and the plane goes tumbling down. Twisted metal, fire, fuselage everywhere. Almost everyone’s dead. Just a handful of men survive. There’s Ottway, Luttinger (a bear of a man), Flannery (a sort of Bill Paxton type from Aliens) and Pike (the troublemaker), along with a few others. Nobody’s able to keep their shit together. They are out in the middle of the North fucking Pole, employees of a company they know is too cheap to send out a rescue team to find them. But the only one who understands the true severity of their situation is Ottway, and he quickly takes charge. They need to set up a fire and they need to find food. Fast. As the others gradually slide out of shock, they begin to notice they have visitors. Wolves. Off in the distance. Staring. Pacing. Observing. But these aren’t ordinary wolves. They’re bigger. More viscious. Unafraid. A genetic result of being forced to hunt bigger pray out here in the middle of nowhere. So they’re stronger. And they’ve never seen humans before. So they’re not afraid of them. They simply see them as another animal species invading their territory. And for that reason, they need to be killed. And that’s exactly what they start doing. Instantly picking off our men, one by one. At first they wait for them to walk off alone, to go the bathroom. But soon they’re impatient with even that approach, and literally run into the group, grabbing their prey, and pulling the helpless men back to the pack, as they’re chewed apart alive. And the assessment is that out here, they’re toast. They need to get to the forest, where they’ll have cover. But if dealing with hungry killer wolves weren’t bad enough, the lawless Pike disagrees with nearly everything Ottway suggests. Pike wants to be the leader here, and his continual insubordination is threatening to kill them from the inside before they’re killed from the outside. There are no big plot twists here. No surprises. No trickery or unique structure. It’s a very simple story. Group of Men vs. Group of Wolves. Battle for survival. And what makes it so compelling, is that the men are so grossly overmatched. They’re out of their element, starving, freezing, and the only one that understands the gravity of their predicament is a man that just yesterday wanted to end his life. What I loved about The Grey was just how realistic it all was. You could feel the ice on your fingers. You could hear the wind kicking up the snow. And Carnahan and Jeffers supplement it with an “in your face” style full of italics and underlines. Normally that stuff annoys me, but here, it feels appropriate, as it embodies the immediacy and second-to-second struggle these men are going through. And there’s something about Ottway that just makes you root for him. I love characters who want to end their life, only to be thrown in a situation where they must fight for it. Outside of the irony, it’s moving to see that moment a character realizes just how valuable life is. Ottway spends much of the opening speaking in voice over and his words are so real, so intense, they pierce you, bonding you with this man forever. As the odds become stacked higher and higher against him, you pray that beyond all reason, he’ll somehow find a way to survive, to find shelter, to find help. And yet, instinctively, you know no one’s coming to help him. And then of course there’s the wolves. Oh the wolves. They’ll do what no other wolves would dare do. Run right into the pack, snatch you away, and chow on your throat as they drag you back to their kill den. This ain’t the French-kissing Taylor Lautner kind of wolf, nosiree. But the most terrifying of them all is the Alpha Male, the wolf that’s even bigger than all the other abnormally large wolves. Watching him observe these men from a distance, seeing eyes that almost appear intelligent, plotting, is what brings the reality of this situation to bear. And one of the cooler threads was the parallel between the alpha male relationship to the wolves in the wolfpack, and the alpha-male relationship to the humans in the human pack. As we jump back and forth, we realize these carnivores aren’t that much different from each other. It was all just done to perfection. If there’s something that can be improved, it’s probably the secondary characters. Outside of Flannery and Pike, none of the other men stood out. And there’s a lot of places you can go with a pool of murderers and ex-cons. I thought that could’ve been fun to explore. But this is a 2007 draft, so I have a feeling they may have addressed that issue. Still, I hope they haven’t messed with anything else. This was an intense harsh thrill-packed ride from cover to cover, and I think it works perfectly the way it is. What I learned: Voice over is one of those things that, unless you know what you’re doing, you just shouldn’t fuck with. But when done well, it does a great job of quickly connecting you to the main character – helping you identify with and care for them in a manner that’s just not possible without hearing their thoughts. I dare you to read the opening 10 pages, hear Ottway’s voice over, and not sympathize with him, not want to root for him.
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