From Earth to the Sun, the world's most heat resistant material....On and on, the questions can be endless. I don't know what these three writers, one who wrote the novel, two who scripted the screenplay based on that novel, I just don't know what they did the research works, referred to how many books to enable them co-scripted this sci fi movie. I don't care how many heavy weight actors they signed up to play those roles in this movie, I just want to give you some ideas how stupid and ridiculous this novel and the screenplay were. It's as stupid and ridiculous as the Chinese movie, "The Wondering Earth (2019)" . The only sci fi movie that we might not want to criticize so harshily is "Sunshine (2007)", but still, it's a very stupid and ridiculous movie about earthlings to deal with the Sun.
This 1990 movie was about the Sun Flare threatening the Earth, and how the people on Earth tried to travel to the Sun, throwing an atomic bomb into the Sun Flare to blow and dissipate the Flare. Well, just because of this movie's ridiculous premises, I couldn't resist the urge to search the web and got the following facts to show how ridiculous and impossible this mission could be even off the surface of the Earth, except "Star Trek" fantasy might have a remote feasibility to try. Well, let's see:
The distance between the Earth and the sun is 92.956 million miles. From Earth to Moon Distance 238,900 miles. Current Distance from Earth to Sun is 0.000015558 light years. How long is a light year in Earth years? For most space objects, we use light-years to describe their distance. A light-year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles (9 trillion km). That is a 6 with 12 zeros behind it!
It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon. During that time a spacecraft travels at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometers) which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The specific distance depends on the specific path chosen.
How long did it take to get to the moon in 1969? It took Apollo 11, that's the spaceship that carried Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969, 4 days 6 hours and 45 minutes to get to the moon. They took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:32 pm on 7/16/1969, and the lunar module landed on the moon at 8:17 pm on 7/20/1969. (I herewith reserve my doubt of their Moon Landing claim)
The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers). However, that doesn't happen very often. The total journey time from Earth to Mars takes between 150-300 days depending on the speed of the launch, the alignment of Earth and Mars, and the length of the journey the spacecraft takes to reach its target.
The temperature at the surface of the Sun is about 10,000 Fahrenheit (5,600 Celsius). The temperature rises from the surface of the Sun inward towards the very hot center of the Sun where it reaches about 27,000,000 Fahrenheit (15,000,000 Celsius).
What is a flare on the sun? Sometimes a sudden, rapid, and intense variation in brightness is seen on the Sun. That is a solar flare. A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. On the Sun's surface are huge magnetic loops called prominences. Inside a flare, the temperature typically reaches 10 or 20 million degrees Kelvin, and can be as high as 100 million degrees Kelvin.
New record set for world's most heat resistant material. Researchers have discovered that tantalum carbide and hafnium carbide materials can withstand scorching temperatures of nearly 4000 degrees Celsius.
Based upon all of the above-mentioned, even they made a spaceship that could resist the heat of the Sun; even the space travel would slow down those astronauts' aging process, but you think a small atomic bomb with several mega ton explosion power could dismantle or dissipate a Sun Flare that might thousand bigger than the Earth, albeit the incredible sizes of the Sun and Earth: The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The Sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it. If we put the Earth in front of the Sun, the Earth is just a tiny dot. The spaceship from the Earth would be just a micro dust, even the atomic bomb could be activated in time before melting, the explosion to the Sun would just like nothing happens, even less meaningless than a mosquito bite.
So folks, please don't waste your time to become as stupid as the movie itself. Watch "Star Trek" series, or "Star War" franchise. But most important advice from me is to avoid "The Wondering Earth", because I just couldn't believe the Chinese writer and the Chinese movie maker could be so stupid and shallow in basic science.
This 1990 movie was about the Sun Flare threatening the Earth, and how the people on Earth tried to travel to the Sun, throwing an atomic bomb into the Sun Flare to blow and dissipate the Flare. Well, just because of this movie's ridiculous premises, I couldn't resist the urge to search the web and got the following facts to show how ridiculous and impossible this mission could be even off the surface of the Earth, except "Star Trek" fantasy might have a remote feasibility to try. Well, let's see:
The distance between the Earth and the sun is 92.956 million miles. From Earth to Moon Distance 238,900 miles. Current Distance from Earth to Sun is 0.000015558 light years. How long is a light year in Earth years? For most space objects, we use light-years to describe their distance. A light-year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles (9 trillion km). That is a 6 with 12 zeros behind it!
It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon. During that time a spacecraft travels at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometers) which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The specific distance depends on the specific path chosen.
How long did it take to get to the moon in 1969? It took Apollo 11, that's the spaceship that carried Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969, 4 days 6 hours and 45 minutes to get to the moon. They took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:32 pm on 7/16/1969, and the lunar module landed on the moon at 8:17 pm on 7/20/1969. (I herewith reserve my doubt of their Moon Landing claim)
The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers). However, that doesn't happen very often. The total journey time from Earth to Mars takes between 150-300 days depending on the speed of the launch, the alignment of Earth and Mars, and the length of the journey the spacecraft takes to reach its target.
The temperature at the surface of the Sun is about 10,000 Fahrenheit (5,600 Celsius). The temperature rises from the surface of the Sun inward towards the very hot center of the Sun where it reaches about 27,000,000 Fahrenheit (15,000,000 Celsius).
What is a flare on the sun? Sometimes a sudden, rapid, and intense variation in brightness is seen on the Sun. That is a solar flare. A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. On the Sun's surface are huge magnetic loops called prominences. Inside a flare, the temperature typically reaches 10 or 20 million degrees Kelvin, and can be as high as 100 million degrees Kelvin.
New record set for world's most heat resistant material. Researchers have discovered that tantalum carbide and hafnium carbide materials can withstand scorching temperatures of nearly 4000 degrees Celsius.
Based upon all of the above-mentioned, even they made a spaceship that could resist the heat of the Sun; even the space travel would slow down those astronauts' aging process, but you think a small atomic bomb with several mega ton explosion power could dismantle or dissipate a Sun Flare that might thousand bigger than the Earth, albeit the incredible sizes of the Sun and Earth: The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The Sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it. If we put the Earth in front of the Sun, the Earth is just a tiny dot. The spaceship from the Earth would be just a micro dust, even the atomic bomb could be activated in time before melting, the explosion to the Sun would just like nothing happens, even less meaningless than a mosquito bite.
So folks, please don't waste your time to become as stupid as the movie itself. Watch "Star Trek" series, or "Star War" franchise. But most important advice from me is to avoid "The Wondering Earth", because I just couldn't believe the Chinese writer and the Chinese movie maker could be so stupid and shallow in basic science.