Film Viewing in Science today, THE CORE!
When thirty-two people within a 10-block radius simultaneously drop dead for no visible reason in Boston, Dr. Josh Keyes, a geologist, and Dr. Serge Leveque, a physicist, are brought together by Gen. Purcell of the U.S. government to determine a cause.
Keyes deduces that the people who died had one thing in common - they had Artificial Pacemakers. He initially believes the cause to be an electromagnetic pulse. Having confirmed that the deaths are not, in fact, caused by hostile foreign powers, the US defense department representitive simply walks away and leaves Keyes and Serge to themselves, ignoring the scientists, who are asking questions in an attempt to find out what did cause the deaths.
A short while later, the pigeons of London's Trafalgar Square lose internal navigational ability and smash into windshields and plate glass windows. Upon seeing this news relayed in a webcast, Keyes realizes anomalies are caused by the Earth's core — and that it has stopped rotating. Within a year, the Earth is destined to lose its electromagnetic field and its surface laid waste by solar radiation.
Keyes is tapped by the US Government to lead a team of "terranauts" in a journey to the Earth's core and set off a series of nuclear explosions in an attempt to restart the core's rotation. To reach the core, they make use of an experimental vehicle, known as 'Virgil' by its inventor, that employs an unusual metal that he dubbed 'Unobtanium', and is theoretically capable of withstanding the pressure at the center of the Earth. Braz repeatedly insists that rock or any hot liquid like lava only makes Virgil stronger.
As these events are taking place, the space shuttle Endeavor is forced to make a frantic emergency landing when its navigation systems (which are dependent on electronic components) mistakenly direct them towards downtown Los Angeles. After exhausting all other possible options, the crew, led by Robert "Bob" Iverson, attempts an alternative, by Childs, the Endeavor's rookie mission specialist — a forced landing in the Los Angeles River. Almost missing their only chance, the crew have to swerve to avoid overpasses and successfully grind to a safe stop inches from a bridge but demolish the Space Shuttle.
The FBI, meanwhile, storms the apartment of 'Rat', a talented computer hacker — as Rat races to microwave, de-magnetize and destroy his computer hardware, they enter his home and reveal that not only are they aware that he broke into the FBI's highly-secure computer database, but they also need him to 'hack the planet', literally infiltrating the entire global Internet in an effort to prevent a worldwide panic. His terms are simple: an unlimited supply of Xena tapes and Hot Pockets (which help him concentrate).
In the deserts of Utah, construction begins on the 'Virgil' vehicle, while lightning superstorms appear above the base and around the world. Rome is devastated by a massive electrical storm, with the Colosseum and Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II completely obliterated by lightning discharges of frightening intensity. While this is going on, Purcell confronts Zimsky, Earth specialist and designer of Project DESTINI, over whether his mysterious creation was responsible for the impending disaster; Zimsky vehemently denies it stating he believes DESTINI can resolve the world's predicament. Eventually the vehicle is launched over the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, erroneously referred to as the "south Pacific Ocean."
Twelve hours into the mission, and 700 miles underground, the crew encounters an unusual problem — it seems the computer is malfunctioning, as it's showing a large amount of static. Dr. Keyes, who programmed the computer, quickly determines that it is 'nothing' — and quite literally so, as he neglected to program the computer to recognize empty space, and assumed that the Earth's mantle would be nothing but liquid.
Virgil drills through the outer shell of a gigantic cavernous amethyst geode full of huge crystals, falling under gravity and eventually coming to a stop. The crew then attempts extravehicular activity to free the vehicle from a large crystal embedded in its sonic laser. The EVA quickly becomes a dire emergency, however, when magma begins to pour through (and destroy) the ceiling of the cavern — it seems that Virgil's entrance punched a hole in the fragile 'shell' of the cavern, and it's collapsing around them.
Robert Iverson dies when a piece of amethyst falls through his helmet, and Keyes nearly dies when he disconnects his airhose to power the oxygen torch that is being used to cut the jammed amythyst. After Zimsky retrieves Keyes and returns to the vehicle, the mission resumes. When Keyes' mis-programmed guidance system begins showing black shapes in the magma around Virgil, Childs calls on Zimsky to determine what they might be. Zimsky discovers that they're enormous, mountain-sized diamonds, and that Virgil is simply moving too quickly to go around them.
In a white-knuckle diamond-dodge, Childs avoids the majority of the diamonds — but one collides with Virgil, causing a hull breach. With Serge trapped in the ejecting compartment, Keyes frantically screams for Childs to override the ejection system, but Zimsky sternly reminds her that a single damaged compartment puts the stability of Virgil's entire frame at risk.
Childs is forced to eject the compartment with Serge still inside, and he is killed as the intense pressure crushes the compartment.
Nearly two thousand miles down, Virgil's velocity increases — from 90 to 130 knots, in a matter of seconds. Keyes deduces that that the viscosity of the outer core's liquid is too thin, and a nuclear detonation is unlikely to restart convection in the core. Zimsky, knowing that the project now has little-to-no chance of success, Purcell and Zimsky reveal DESTINI: standing for Deep Earth Seismic Trigger INItiative, and housed in a secret facility in Alaska, can start earthquakes anywhere on the planet. It's also revealed to be the cause of the stalling of Earth's core.
While the team is underground, the world is struck by more disasters. Huge blasts of microwave radiation from the sun break through the atmosphere, melting the Golden Gate Bridge and frying half of San Francisco. Upon seeing the devastation, Purcell decides to activate DESTINI in case the Virgil mission fails. Rat, who has gone from 'hacking the planet' to watching Virgil's readouts, notices that DESTINI is being activated, and sends a covert message to Keyes offering assistance. Keyes responds in kind, asking for more time, and Rat buys that time in true hacker fashion, attempting to shut down of the hydroelectric dams in Alaska; however, Rat is unable to defeat the security systems, and frantically tries to find another way into DESTINI's power supply.
Below the Earth's surface, Zimsky determines that instead of a single large detonation, a series of smaller explosions reacting to each other's shockwaves would restart the core. Keyes suggests ejecting Virgil's compartments, each with a piece of the nuclear bomb inside. As usual, there are complications: Virgil was never designed to eject undamaged compartments. The only way to manually eject an undamaged portion is to 'unlock' the catch manually — an act of sheer suicide, as the ejection catch is in the impeller crawlspace, and it's currently at 9,000 degrees, and the environmental suits can only withstand temperatures at half that level.
Braz 'volunteers', by way of a rigged 'shortest-straw' pull. After being caught in his cheat, he implores the crew to let him go, as he feels that, by building Virgil, he has accomplished a one-of-a-kind miracle. Zimsky, whom Braz once accused of stealing his research, tells his departing friend that Braz built a hell of a ship, and that he 'wishes to hell' it could have been 'their' ship.
Unfortunately, Braz' sacrifice may have been futile: due to unforeseen miscalculations, the final bomb needs to have 30 percent more energy to achieve the required effect. During a quick course-correction, Zimsky is pinned by the free-rolling nuke in the final compartment, and seconds before it's ejected, tells Keyes to power the enhanced explosion with the plutonium from Virgil's reactor. After nearly dying from radiation burns and intense heat, Keyes returns to Virgil's remaining section, where Childs finds him as the bombs begin to detonate
Meanwhile, Rat has attempted nearly every trick his resourceful mind can recall to derail DESTINI, only to be greeted by 'ACCESS DENIED' and 'CLASSIFIED' notices at every turn. Seconds before DESTINI is activated, Rat realizes that he's been attacking from the wrong angle — instead of trying to cut DESTINI's power, he instead redirects it, to Coney Island. DESTINI is thwarted, and Rat is quickly approached by the suspicious general, who discovers that Rat has apparently been playing Pong on his computer the entire time.
The last bomb goes off and the core starts spinning again. The Deep Core Control Room erupts in cheers, but absent from the celebration, however, are Keyes and Childs, who are stranded beneath the Earth in a powerless Virgil. With Virgil's cooling systems powerless, the heat quickly rises — until Keyes remembers that Virgil's 'Unobtanium' plating converts heat into energy. By the very nature of its construction, Virgil's hull is a giant Solar panel.
After some quick modifications to Virgil's interior, Keyes and Childs power Virgil's impeller and 'surf' to the Earth's surface on magma flows of up to 420 knots. When Virgil reaches the ocean floor, however, the vehicle again goes dead — Virgil runs on heat, and the ocean floor is as cold as an icecube.
On the ocean's surface, a massive Search and Rescue operation is underway, but the ships are on the verge of giving up — the only thing they're picking up is whale-song. What the searchers don't know is that the whales aren't singing to the searching ships — the whales are gathering around the nearly-powerless Virgil 800 feet down; the impeller's motion creates subsonic vibrations and, in essence, 'sings' to them.
Childs and Keyes are notably subdued as they realize that their friends — Braz, Zimsky and Serge — will go totally unrecognized, because the Virgil mission is highly classified. Keyes slowly begins to grin as he realizes that they have a 'mole' — or rather, a 'Rat' — within Core Control, which is where all of the mission-critical information is stored.
Several weeks later, Rat (wearing a thick wool hat and dark glasses) hacks into a cyber-cafe and uploads pictures of the six 'unsung heroes', the Virgil mission, and Project DESTINI to every news agency in the world. Sitting behind his laptop, having once again 'hacked the planet', the only thing Rat says is 'DESTINI...meet the world. World...meet DESTINI'.
Keyes deduces that the people who died had one thing in common - they had Artificial Pacemakers. He initially believes the cause to be an electromagnetic pulse. Having confirmed that the deaths are not, in fact, caused by hostile foreign powers, the US defense department representitive simply walks away and leaves Keyes and Serge to themselves, ignoring the scientists, who are asking questions in an attempt to find out what did cause the deaths.
A short while later, the pigeons of London's Trafalgar Square lose internal navigational ability and smash into windshields and plate glass windows. Upon seeing this news relayed in a webcast, Keyes realizes anomalies are caused by the Earth's core — and that it has stopped rotating. Within a year, the Earth is destined to lose its electromagnetic field and its surface laid waste by solar radiation.
Keyes is tapped by the US Government to lead a team of "terranauts" in a journey to the Earth's core and set off a series of nuclear explosions in an attempt to restart the core's rotation. To reach the core, they make use of an experimental vehicle, known as 'Virgil' by its inventor, that employs an unusual metal that he dubbed 'Unobtanium', and is theoretically capable of withstanding the pressure at the center of the Earth. Braz repeatedly insists that rock or any hot liquid like lava only makes Virgil stronger.
As these events are taking place, the space shuttle Endeavor is forced to make a frantic emergency landing when its navigation systems (which are dependent on electronic components) mistakenly direct them towards downtown Los Angeles. After exhausting all other possible options, the crew, led by Robert "Bob" Iverson, attempts an alternative, by Childs, the Endeavor's rookie mission specialist — a forced landing in the Los Angeles River. Almost missing their only chance, the crew have to swerve to avoid overpasses and successfully grind to a safe stop inches from a bridge but demolish the Space Shuttle.
The FBI, meanwhile, storms the apartment of 'Rat', a talented computer hacker — as Rat races to microwave, de-magnetize and destroy his computer hardware, they enter his home and reveal that not only are they aware that he broke into the FBI's highly-secure computer database, but they also need him to 'hack the planet', literally infiltrating the entire global Internet in an effort to prevent a worldwide panic. His terms are simple: an unlimited supply of Xena tapes and Hot Pockets (which help him concentrate).
In the deserts of Utah, construction begins on the 'Virgil' vehicle, while lightning superstorms appear above the base and around the world. Rome is devastated by a massive electrical storm, with the Colosseum and Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II completely obliterated by lightning discharges of frightening intensity. While this is going on, Purcell confronts Zimsky, Earth specialist and designer of Project DESTINI, over whether his mysterious creation was responsible for the impending disaster; Zimsky vehemently denies it stating he believes DESTINI can resolve the world's predicament. Eventually the vehicle is launched over the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, erroneously referred to as the "south Pacific Ocean."
Twelve hours into the mission, and 700 miles underground, the crew encounters an unusual problem — it seems the computer is malfunctioning, as it's showing a large amount of static. Dr. Keyes, who programmed the computer, quickly determines that it is 'nothing' — and quite literally so, as he neglected to program the computer to recognize empty space, and assumed that the Earth's mantle would be nothing but liquid.
Virgil drills through the outer shell of a gigantic cavernous amethyst geode full of huge crystals, falling under gravity and eventually coming to a stop. The crew then attempts extravehicular activity to free the vehicle from a large crystal embedded in its sonic laser. The EVA quickly becomes a dire emergency, however, when magma begins to pour through (and destroy) the ceiling of the cavern — it seems that Virgil's entrance punched a hole in the fragile 'shell' of the cavern, and it's collapsing around them.
Robert Iverson dies when a piece of amethyst falls through his helmet, and Keyes nearly dies when he disconnects his airhose to power the oxygen torch that is being used to cut the jammed amythyst. After Zimsky retrieves Keyes and returns to the vehicle, the mission resumes. When Keyes' mis-programmed guidance system begins showing black shapes in the magma around Virgil, Childs calls on Zimsky to determine what they might be. Zimsky discovers that they're enormous, mountain-sized diamonds, and that Virgil is simply moving too quickly to go around them.
In a white-knuckle diamond-dodge, Childs avoids the majority of the diamonds — but one collides with Virgil, causing a hull breach. With Serge trapped in the ejecting compartment, Keyes frantically screams for Childs to override the ejection system, but Zimsky sternly reminds her that a single damaged compartment puts the stability of Virgil's entire frame at risk.
Childs is forced to eject the compartment with Serge still inside, and he is killed as the intense pressure crushes the compartment.
Nearly two thousand miles down, Virgil's velocity increases — from 90 to 130 knots, in a matter of seconds. Keyes deduces that that the viscosity of the outer core's liquid is too thin, and a nuclear detonation is unlikely to restart convection in the core. Zimsky, knowing that the project now has little-to-no chance of success, Purcell and Zimsky reveal DESTINI: standing for Deep Earth Seismic Trigger INItiative, and housed in a secret facility in Alaska, can start earthquakes anywhere on the planet. It's also revealed to be the cause of the stalling of Earth's core.
While the team is underground, the world is struck by more disasters. Huge blasts of microwave radiation from the sun break through the atmosphere, melting the Golden Gate Bridge and frying half of San Francisco. Upon seeing the devastation, Purcell decides to activate DESTINI in case the Virgil mission fails. Rat, who has gone from 'hacking the planet' to watching Virgil's readouts, notices that DESTINI is being activated, and sends a covert message to Keyes offering assistance. Keyes responds in kind, asking for more time, and Rat buys that time in true hacker fashion, attempting to shut down of the hydroelectric dams in Alaska; however, Rat is unable to defeat the security systems, and frantically tries to find another way into DESTINI's power supply.
Below the Earth's surface, Zimsky determines that instead of a single large detonation, a series of smaller explosions reacting to each other's shockwaves would restart the core. Keyes suggests ejecting Virgil's compartments, each with a piece of the nuclear bomb inside. As usual, there are complications: Virgil was never designed to eject undamaged compartments. The only way to manually eject an undamaged portion is to 'unlock' the catch manually — an act of sheer suicide, as the ejection catch is in the impeller crawlspace, and it's currently at 9,000 degrees, and the environmental suits can only withstand temperatures at half that level.
Braz 'volunteers', by way of a rigged 'shortest-straw' pull. After being caught in his cheat, he implores the crew to let him go, as he feels that, by building Virgil, he has accomplished a one-of-a-kind miracle. Zimsky, whom Braz once accused of stealing his research, tells his departing friend that Braz built a hell of a ship, and that he 'wishes to hell' it could have been 'their' ship.
Unfortunately, Braz' sacrifice may have been futile: due to unforeseen miscalculations, the final bomb needs to have 30 percent more energy to achieve the required effect. During a quick course-correction, Zimsky is pinned by the free-rolling nuke in the final compartment, and seconds before it's ejected, tells Keyes to power the enhanced explosion with the plutonium from Virgil's reactor. After nearly dying from radiation burns and intense heat, Keyes returns to Virgil's remaining section, where Childs finds him as the bombs begin to detonate
Meanwhile, Rat has attempted nearly every trick his resourceful mind can recall to derail DESTINI, only to be greeted by 'ACCESS DENIED' and 'CLASSIFIED' notices at every turn. Seconds before DESTINI is activated, Rat realizes that he's been attacking from the wrong angle — instead of trying to cut DESTINI's power, he instead redirects it, to Coney Island. DESTINI is thwarted, and Rat is quickly approached by the suspicious general, who discovers that Rat has apparently been playing Pong on his computer the entire time.
The last bomb goes off and the core starts spinning again. The Deep Core Control Room erupts in cheers, but absent from the celebration, however, are Keyes and Childs, who are stranded beneath the Earth in a powerless Virgil. With Virgil's cooling systems powerless, the heat quickly rises — until Keyes remembers that Virgil's 'Unobtanium' plating converts heat into energy. By the very nature of its construction, Virgil's hull is a giant Solar panel.
After some quick modifications to Virgil's interior, Keyes and Childs power Virgil's impeller and 'surf' to the Earth's surface on magma flows of up to 420 knots. When Virgil reaches the ocean floor, however, the vehicle again goes dead — Virgil runs on heat, and the ocean floor is as cold as an icecube.
On the ocean's surface, a massive Search and Rescue operation is underway, but the ships are on the verge of giving up — the only thing they're picking up is whale-song. What the searchers don't know is that the whales aren't singing to the searching ships — the whales are gathering around the nearly-powerless Virgil 800 feet down; the impeller's motion creates subsonic vibrations and, in essence, 'sings' to them.
Childs and Keyes are notably subdued as they realize that their friends — Braz, Zimsky and Serge — will go totally unrecognized, because the Virgil mission is highly classified. Keyes slowly begins to grin as he realizes that they have a 'mole' — or rather, a 'Rat' — within Core Control, which is where all of the mission-critical information is stored.
Several weeks later, Rat (wearing a thick wool hat and dark glasses) hacks into a cyber-cafe and uploads pictures of the six 'unsung heroes', the Virgil mission, and Project DESTINI to every news agency in the world. Sitting behind his laptop, having once again 'hacked the planet', the only thing Rat says is 'DESTINI...meet the world. World...meet DESTINI'.
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