While the entire world watches the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid, hidden by the meteor field, smashes into the moon in a tremendous explosion of rock and debris. Fragments from the asteroid, and even from the moon itself, penetrate Earth's atmosphere and make impact. Even though the initial damage is minimal, nerves are frayed throughout the planet. There is significant physical damage to the lunar surface, but experts quickly conclude there will be no lasting ramifications. Then strange anomalies begin to manifest themselves on Earth. It starts small - cell phone disruptions, unusual static charges and odd tidal behavior. The world's leading scientists, including Alex Kittner, Maddie Rhodes and Roland Emerson, begin piecing together evidence that suggests the moon's properties, and its orbit, may have been permanently altered. Their fears are realized when the anomalies increase to the point where the effect of "simulated" gravity is being manipulated by increased electromagnetic surges coming from the moon. People, cars and other objects are rendered momentarily weightless in random, isolated areas around the globe. Alex, Maddie, Roland and the rest of their team soon discover something far worse - the moon's new orbit has put it on a collision course with Earth! The world now has 39 days to stop it or Earth, and all of mankind, will perish. After a failed attempt by the United States to destroy the moon, our heroes bring all the countries of the world together in one last hope for humanity - an international mission to the moon itself where astronauts will attempt to reverse the magnetic effects and restore the moon to its original orbit. Alex, whose children are now missing after the latest rampage of anti-gravity, is emotionally torn as he must now join Roland and two other astronauts on the Earth saving mission into space. It is a race against time as the two celestial bodies are drawn closer and closer to impact, the world united, watching and praying, the survival of mankind in the balance. First of all, I need the -10 for 10 for Vote.<br/><br/>Just watched this on ABC. TOTAL WASTE OF THE TIME!!!<br/><br/>1. Going to the moon/falling star - total copy of Deep Impact. <br/><br/>Plot is quite similar. Going to the falling star. Plant the bomb. somebody dies, somebody comes back. All the countries help each other. Yes, we've been that.<br/><br/>2. Science… common, what are you thinking?<br/><br/>The missile flying with fin in no air space. Just one nozzle. Hah!<br/><br/>The landing module with only one nozzle. Great. Director gotta watch some space science documentary. <br/><br/>Gravity and Electromagnetic(EM) power. Sure… As Electronics Major student, I gotta laugh or cry.<br/><br/>EM with bright blue light? Great Effect. Sure…<br/><br/>3. Plot? there is no such thing.<br/><br/>Sometimes too fast, fast, too slow or, slow. Horrible acting, too. Granny and Kids scene was not needed at all. <br/><br/>4. HORRIBLE Computer Graphics.<br/><br/>Floting ship looks like 90's game CG. It would be cool at least Atlanta Olympic Game. Common, there is Star Trek and Transformer 2. Are you kidding me? Looked like the Co-ed graduation work. Actually Everything looked like the Co-ed work with some budget.<br/><br/>5. There is no excuse.<br/><br/>I know it is TV movie. So, I didn't expect much. If it was on the Movie Theater and I had to pay, I'd torch the theater. and sending the threat letter to the IMDb to change the vote margin to -30 ~ 10. And, still shouting that there is no -100.<br/><br/>6. Finally…<br/><br/>Somebody give my time back. Is God punishing me by didn't go the church night service? As was already pointed out, a brown dwarf is a small star about 13 or more times the mass of Jupiter. A white dwarf is a collapsed object with very dense matter - they would not have been able to hoist a piece with a crane. They made the statement that the Moon used to have 1/6 the mass of the Earth - no! It was (is) 1/81 of the Earth's mass, or 0.0123 – they mixed this up with the gravity being 1/6 that of the Earth. So on the Moon you would weigh 1/6 of what you weigh here.<br/><br/>A piece of this degenerate matter would either go right through the Moon or the Earth or sink to the center of either body.<br/><br/>The meteor shower is shown to stream in parallel lines in space to the Earth. Usually the meteors would actually seem to originate from a point in space, the radiant. This is like driving through a snow storm. But, to be fair, if the meteors are really coming from a nearby area, they might follow the paths shown.<br/><br/>If the Moon was now twice the mass of the Earth then the Earth would be orbiting the Moon. There is a complex interaction of the Earth, Moon, and Sun and the spin axis, the length of the day, etc. will all be changing.<br/><br/>Then they are shocked to see there may be a collision. You either have a stable orbit, or get flung away, or you crash. That's life with gravity.<br/><br/>Another issue is the constant scenes of the Moon with a bunch of debris hovering around it - either the junk is orbiting or it will fall back down to the surface. The same side of the Moon may not keep facing the Earth - the impact might set it spinning, or the oval orbit could break up the 1:1 resonance with the Earth.<br/><br/>The scenes of things floating up are odd. The gravity of the Moon could balance the Earth's gravity if it had the new mass and was closer. But they attribute this to some electric - magnetic effect. I could not understand the explanation - yes, we are all made of the same stuff, but obviously not everything is affected much by magnets. A white dwarf can have extreme magnetic fields, but you probably would die if it could lift you. Your bodily functions and cell growth would be messed up. The heart beat would be messed up, too.
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