Last Impact - The impact
| Movie | |
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| German title | Last Impact - The impact |
| Original title | Impact |
| Country of production | United States , Germany , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 182 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mike Rohl |
| script | Michael Vickermann |
| production | Ted Bauman |
| music | Michael Richard Plowman |
| camera | Gordon Verheul |
| cut | Lisa Robison |
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Last Impact is a two-part television film directed by Michael Rohl and produced in the USA, Canada and Germany in 2008. The German-language first broadcast took place on May 13 and 14, 2009 on Sat.1 .
action
A fragment of a brown dwarf about 20 km in diameter, which was obscured by the largest meteor shower of the last 10,000 years, collided with the moon . Parts of the fragment and the moon break through the earth's atmosphere and strike across the world. Initially the damage is minimal, but the lunar surface shows significant damage. Furthermore, the moon was thrown out of its orbit and approaches the earth by approx. 30,000 km, then again by 90,000 km. At first there are only small things that arise when the moon approaches, such as disturbed telephone signals, power fluctuations and radio interference, but later - caused by electrical charges - cars, people and trains take off. Scientists from Germany, Canada and the USA have no explanation for this for the time being.
As the effects of the approach of the moon in Europe wear off, the team of scientists from the USA receives the message that the mass of the moon is now around two earth masses due to the fragment, which is why the moon is steadily approaching the earth and with it in 39 days collide and destroy them. For fear of mass panic, the US government decides to keep this information secret from the public.
In the White House , the President is being advised by two teams on how the orbit of the moon could be changed using nuclear missiles. The team of scientists advises bombarding the moon with 1,100 thermonuclear warheads, each with an explosive force of 5 megatons , which should be detonated every 2 minutes. This would create an exponentially increasing effect. Alternatively, the military suggests detonating all missiles simultaneously in the crack in the moon created by the impact in order to destroy the moon and release the fragment and thus stabilize the moon's orbit. The president decides on the military's plan.
In the meantime, a journalist has learned the true extent of the danger from an informant close to the President and has made it public on TV. This led to unrest around the world, which, however, subsided. At the same time as the nuclear missiles are launched, the President gives a televised address and explains the situation to the public.
The rockets reach the moon as planned and also ignite. However, it turns out that they haven't had the desired effect. Instead, the moon was accelerated further and the time to collision with the earth was shortened by five days. The president then asks the scientists to come up with a new plan.
They actually still see a possibility, as one of the scientists remembers an old project in which an anti-gravity machine was built. This machine could now be used to pull the fragment out of the fissure of the moon and direct it into the sun, whereupon the orbit would stabilize. However, the exact position can only be determined on site. That is why the machine has to be installed and ignited by astronauts on the moon. The chance of surviving the mission is 1: 1000. There are 16 days left for the preparations.
Two of the scientists, the specialist in the anti-gravity machine and the meteorite hunter as the leading "lunar geologist", are assigned to the astronaut team (a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut ). The ESA is preparing their already planned for last month, manned lunar mission in Kazakhstan before. Due to the damage caused by electromagnetic storms, astronaut training and ground control will be moved to the European Space Control Center in Darmstadt.
The mission starts in time with a Soyuz rocket . A suitable location on the moon can quickly be determined and the anti-gravity machine assembled. During the final measurement of the fissure of the moon, the astronaut and the meteorite hunter are killed. In the control center, the scientist's pregnant bride has to watch the scientist's death tearfully. The other two can take off again with the space shuttle and narrowly escape the explosion.
The plan works and you can see the fragment coming out of the moon and flying towards the sun. The massive explosion can also be observed from Earth, whereupon the moon breaks in two.
Publications
The first broadcast ran as a two-parter on May 13 and 14, 2009 on Sat.1, the DVD distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment was released on May 15, 2009.
Physical impossibilities
In the film physical laws are wildly mixed up.
There is talk of a fragment of a brown dwarf that hits the moon and causes the disturbances. Brown dwarfs are explained as extinct suns, but in reality they are sun-like objects whose mass is not quite sufficient to initiate nuclear fusion . In addition, a fragment of a brown dwarf on this scale would not be enough to change the mass of the moon so significantly.
However, if a fragment of a black or a white dwarf collided with the moon, some of the scenes shown in the film might seem plausible to the layman; in particular the strong electromagnetic phenomena would then have an explanation, as well as the high density of the object. However, the high density results in turn from the high mass of the object, which causes the matter to degenerate. But since it is only a question of a fragment, the mass cannot be sufficient to keep the matter in its degenerate state. In brown dwarfs, the matter is not degenerate, so that there is no explanation for the high density here either.
The diameter of the object is on the order of a whole white dwarf. However, its mass would permanently disturb the orbit of the earth.
There are many other inconsistencies. So there is talk of shielding gravity . In contrast to the other interactions, however, gravitation cannot be shielded according to the current state of science.
Reviews
"Routine (television) mixture of science fiction and disaster films with the usual specifications of both genres and emphasizes human subplots."
Web links
- Last Impact - The impact in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Last Impact - The impact at crew united
Individual evidence
- ^ List of publications in the OFDb
- ↑ Last Impact - The Impact. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .