"Meteor"

[Pagan]

Anyone watch "Meteor" on NBC tonight?

I'm laughing at the Patriot missiles firing from Santa Fe!

[Food Lady]

I taped it and warched it after work. I wanted to see it because I like those disaster-type things, and I liked CBS's "Impact." Not sure I like this one; I know there have to be human-interest stories, but these ones are too melodramatic and random. Come on, a bad-cop scenario?? That doesn't belong in a disaster story.

[Dreamstalker]

I'm laughing at the Patriot missiles firing from Santa Fe!

We have Patriot missiles?

...wait, that must be how the aliens crashed!

[Gravekeeper]

Anyone watch "Meteor" on NBC tonight?

I'm laughing at the Patriot missiles firing from Santa Fe!

....they tried to fire Patriots at a meteor? ><

I wouldn't trust a Patriot missile to stop a Goodyear blimp.

Oh wow, read the description of the show....full of fail, isn't it? Sounds more like a bad soap opera that just happens to have meteors in the back ground. I won't even touch the cornholing of science as a whole required to justify the plot. It requires a series of astronomical coincidences even God would have trouble replicating. ;p

They even picked a real asteroid. To grease the cornhole.

Curse you, made for TV movies.

[cinema guy]

Wait, you aren't talking about the 1970's Sean Connery movie? There's a new one. Was it as cheesy?

[Pagan]

We have Patriot missiles?

Um, they were tested out at White Sands. (My mom was a secretary at Raytheon out at WSMR when it was still the SAM-D.) there's a Patriot Missile Battalion stationed at Fort Bliss. Actually, if you go to the Missile Park at WSMR, there's a Patriot on display there, along with a lot of other really cool things. http://www.wsmr-history.org/MissilePark.htm

Actually, I think the footage they were using was from around there. Can't tell if that was the Organs or the Franklins in the background.

....they tried to fire Patriots at a meteor? ><

I wouldn't trust a Patriot missile to stop a Goodyear blimp.

Hey, now, Patriot would stop the Goodyear blimp....since it was designed as an anti-aircraft missile in the first place. It's first successful test was in 1975. The PAC-2 upgrade had just started testing in 1987 and only given to Army units in 1990. The PAC-3 looks to be a quantum leap ahead of PAC-2. We'll find out when the MEADS enters service in 2012.

I'm a bit of a missile geek, but I come by it honestly. My dad was an electrical engineer in climatics out at WSMR for 30 years. Which means that they heated, froze, and shook the hell out of missile systems. And he was on some black missions. I remember one time they were doing rail tests on a captured Soviet missile down at Bliss and had to cover up everything every 90 minutes. I think I still have his Copperhead t-shirt around here somewhere....

Wait, you aren't talking about the 1970's Sean Connery movie? There's a new one. Was it as cheesy?

Actually, it's a miniseries on NBC. Finishes up next Sunday. And since it is a disaster movie, of course there's a cheese factor!

[Dreamstalker]

I was referring to Santa Fe having a missile silo

[Pagan]

I was referring to Santa Fe having a missile silo

Ohh, I see! Not as far as I know. If that certain bunch up there is going to bitch, moan, and protest WIPP every time you turn around, I can't imagine how they'd react to a silo!

[Ben_Who]

I saw that last night on Hulu. ...Ow, my brain...

My favorite part is this stupid woman who apparently starts out somewhere in Mexico and is trying to get back to the US. I have never seen such an eventful and horrifying road trip in my life, which might make it interesting IF all the horrible things that happen to her weren't ENTIRELY UNRELATED to the central crisis.

She runs out of gas. There's a hit-and-run accident. She hitchhikes to a police station, which has just been taken over by gangsters. Escaping from them, she flees to the border in a stolen police car, where she's locked up. Only a phone call from the Vice President rescues her, after which she's run off the road. This is the least lucky woman in the entire world.

Two different cars run out of gas for entirely different reasons within 40 minutes of each other. And no one notices that their car is out of gas until they're actually spluttering to a stop. Characters drive all over the place when a phone call would solve most of the problems. (The cabin has a hot tub, but not a telephone?)

This is pure, concentrated, weapons-grade stupid. I can't wait for part two.

Love, Who?

[Gravekeeper]

This is pure, concentrated, weapons-grade stupid. I can't wait for part two.

I only watched some of the previews, and I saw a guy apparently try to shoot down a meteor with an over the shoulder anti-tank rpg. Good luck with that. >.>

[Barracuda]

Actually, I think that was supposed to be a Stinger shoulder mounted SAM. Little more believable than an anti tank RPG, but not much. Saw the second half online. You think the FIRST half is ridiculous? Gets worse. As for the girl--seriously, why didn't they just stay at the friggin' observatory and use the phone and internet there?

[Gravekeeper]

Actually, I think that was supposed to be a Stinger shoulder mounted SAM.

I did see a guy pick up a Stinger too, but that was after the rpg clip I saw.

Still, if a meteor is coming at you, and its small enough and moving slow enough that you have time to pick up aim and fire a Stinger at it? Just step 10 feet to your right and let it go by. ><

I also like the scene where a meteor homes in on a school bus.

[Pagan]

My favorite part is this stupid woman who apparently starts out somewhere in Mexico and is trying to get back to the US.

She hitchhikes to a police station, which has just been taken over by gangsters.

She was somewhere in Baja California.

With the situation in Mexico, especially in the border area, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the police station was taken over by a cartel....

Body count's already over 1000 in Juarez this year.

[Ben_Who]

She was somewhere in Baja California.

With the situation in Mexico, especially in the border area, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the police station was taken over by a cartel....

Body count's already over 1000 in Juarez this year.

Well, yes, I appreciate that, but when I say it had just been taken over by gangsters, I mean, literally, it had JUST been taken over by gangsters. As in, gangsters were in the actual process of taking it over that second.

This woman has incredible timing. I hope she continues to stay an entire continent away from me. And with her luck, I'm not sure she's the one who should be in charge of getting rid of the asteroid. She'll probably just bring three or four more crashing down on us.

Love, Who?

[Pagan]

Well, yes, I appreciate that, but when I say it had just been taken over by gangsters, I mean, literally, it had JUST been taken over by gangsters. As in, gangsters were in the actual process of taking it over that second.

Again, that part is not far off reality. It's pretty much lawless in a lot of areas on the border (where I grew up).