Talk:Crack in the World

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

The chunk
I think the idea was that seawater poured into the crack and turned into super-heated steam at very high pressure, which was supposed to send the chunk (about 20,000 square miles surface area) hurtling skywards.(Cyberia3 (talk) 21:57, 23 May 2010 (UTC))

Science fiction
I've removed the following text from the lead:
 * While noted for its attempts at scientific accuracy, its premise&mdash;a crack in the solid crust of the Earth threatening life on it&mdash;was disproved by the conclusive proof of plate tectonics, announced in 1965.

Well the thing is it's science fiction. There is no information here supporting the statement on attempts at scientific accuracy, which I've removed. We don't even see who the science advisor was, if there was such a person. Nor do we see who the writer or writers were. Was it a rare venture into fiction by a great scientist? We don't know from this material. So until we've got some good reason to say this is something worth saying (and not just some puffery intended to sell tickets) we don't say it. --TS 20:50, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Nor is it clear that -- just because the upper crust of the planet isn't completely solid (i.e. plate tectonics) -- that somehow this would disprove the main point of the movie. Remember -- they weren't just drilling 10 or 20 miles deep. They wanted to go core-deep. Even with plate tectonics in play -- if you perforate the crust often enough and deep enough, bad things happen. You don't get an explosion, but bad things happen. Even if -- by gravity -- the parts stay together (and would eventually fuse back together hydro-statically) -- it would be mighty inconvenient to have a core-deep crack anywhere on earth. Chesspride 66.19.84.2 (talk) 05:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)