----- Original Message ----- From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: a call to the irregulars!
> > > Hi Brinellers. > > It's been a while since I've put out a call to the Brin Irregulars. > But this seems a worthy topic for discussion, whether or not I seek > the services of a high powered Hollywood lawyer. > > I just saw a TV ad for this new movie THE CORE. And I'm afraid I now > see more similarities with EARTH than I did the first time a synopsis > came out. > > So let's discuss it. Do any of you have access to more information > about this awful thing? A web site? A list of the producers? Plot > summaries? I actually took an hour to read the novelization of THE CORE. Yes, the use of earthquakes is similar, but the source of the earthquakes (fancypants electromagnetic waves) is far different. The casting of people with PhD's as lead characters is probably a more important similarity. I kid you not. Unfortunately for them, I don't think the writers have ever met someone with a PhD, so the folks are two dimensional figures (and that's generous in some cases). One of the horrible things that starts to happen when the Earth's magnetic fields go away is that the protection they provide against DEADLY MICROWAVE RADIATION is lost. I kid you not. A lake begins to boil when some microwave radiation sneaks in through a hole in the Earth's magnetic field. Its your call of course, but if it were me I'd be proud of the fact that any similarity with a book I've written was mere coincidence. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
