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Bush Tucker Man:
What's Your Favourite?

I don't mean of the slasher/gore-fest/zombie genres, I mean of the 'It Could Happen' scenario

1. 'OutBreak'
I started watching this at work last night (on a late tea-break) & finished it off at home (after SWMBO had watched 'Billy Elliot'*)
Now that's a scary proposition, an airborne virus gets transported around the world on a passenger jet, with no recognised cause & no known cure:(scared):
There's a scare every so often with Ebola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_(film) (Wikipedia link won'twork, with brackets)

(Mindst you, it also has the 'hot' Rene Russo in it :(biglove):




2. 'SuperVolcano'

This is also a very scary one, as the title sequence states,
'This Is A True Story, It Just Hasn't Happened. Yet...'
It was a brilliant productionfirst aired on the BBC, & still shows on the 'UKTV' documentary channels on cable/satellite
The basic premise explores the 'what if?' if the Yellowstone Caldera blew (this is a 9,000 square kilometer eruptable spot!!)
Most of you have heard of the phrase 'Nuclear Winter'? If Yellowstone goes, that winter would be a very long one indeed!

* There's a link between these 2 films. know what it is? :wink:

BBC pages

Wikipedia

For more scientific information, visit this site & pay attention to the diagrams; the first scale map & the comparative magma outputs.

3. 'Armeggedon'/'Deep Impact'
There's been a few near-misses (in cosmic terms).
If an asteroid was found to be on a known collision course, would 'we' be informed, or kept in the dark to prevent the breakdown of every society & religion??

4. 'Independance Day'
Hey!, it could happen (but hopefully without Will )Smith

So, come on, am I 'hitting the mark here', or have I missed a few

muddyjlx:
towering inferno.


earthquake


them :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

BigSi:
There was a documentary on TV a while ago, which depicted several catastrophic events. One was flooding, virus attack, falling meteorite, and some machine opening a black hole? All these events were very plausible, and certainly made you think!

redhand:
Outbreak was an amercianised remake of  a classic british series Survivors http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/ Thats the problem with Hollywood no originality

Lord Shagg-Pyle:
28 Days Later

 that programme that was on about gridlock on the M25 that then causes massive tailbacks and culminates in aircrashes

Hot Fuzz! trust me, it has happened!

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