13th December 2003, 8:08 AM
Oh for the love of... That movie was SO unrealistic it's not even funny. NOTHING like what happened in that movie would happen if the magnetic field were removed. Oh and, that whole magnetic reversal thing HAS NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE to do with finding palm trees in the arctic! Yeesh... That's continental drift at work!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)