Deep Impact

A comet is coming toward Earth and could mean the end of everything. The United States government is trying to keep it quiet so no one will panic. Jenny Lerner who is a reporter lets word slip when it isn’t supposed to. When people find out President Beck of the United States has to make a plan. The astronaut Spurgeon Tanner and his men will land on the comet and will put bombs on it and hopefully destroying the comet. If they don’t get the job done then that is the end for everybody and everything on planet earth. Many critics thought the acting in Deep Impact was excellent and the director, Mimi Leder, put emotion into a majestic movie based on the scientific script. Directing Mimi Leder had a lot on her plate. How was she going to make this world end in Deep Impact? Mimi Leder bring “faith” into the film something a Hollywood director has never done (Kimble 54). Deep Impact is one of the most convoluted disaster movies however it has too many characters and stories (Rittenhouse). Mimi Leder put emotional relationships issues in the film in…

Filmic interpretations of the apocalypse often focus on the anxiety between progress and destruction, because the way we see different technologies is intimately tied to how we see ourselves. Technology is shown alternately as our savior in trying times, a testament to our intelligence, or a testament to our mastery, but also as an accident waiting to happen, an isolating force, or a feeble attempt to raise ourselves to the level of deities. The stories we tell about technology, (especially…

Garret Torre Dr. Cunningham BIO-101-107 April 17, 2017 Deep Impact Film Review Deep Impact is about a comet that is hurtling towards Earth and could possibly destroy the earth. The U.S. government tries to keep it a secret until a reporter by the name of Jenny Lerner discovers what is really happening forcing the president to announce his plan. An astronaut Spurgeon “Fish” Tanner and his team will land on the comet and plant explosives, hopefully changing the route of the deadly comet. The…

It is a common believe that mass extinction on our planet arose as a result of excessive warming and a deep acidification of the oceans. The asteroid theory states that the asteroid impact might have led to vaporization killing dinosaurs on the way. Dr. Keller’s hypothesis states that volcanic activity created a cascade effect that ended up in the extinction of these animals. Either way, experts commonly agree that dinosaurs could not survive in very hot environments. But how did extinction…

Deep ecology is a “new metaphysics that places humans in nature not above it”, “a total intermingling of person with planet” (RE, 92) and it “promotes a sense of human place within the household of nature” (RE, 93). It is resonating with the ecocentric part of partnership ethics that humans are part of the nature and are not superior to other species in any way. We cannot selfishly develop simply for profit or social goods, and cut trees down and release pollutants to the biosphere recklessly.…

include terrestrial stresses (such as lower sea level or global temperature) and radiation (Pasichnyk, 2011), but the 2 theories that have become the most widely accepted as they have the most amount of supporting evidence are the Impact Theory (otherwise known as the Alvarez Hypothesis (Smith, 2005)) and the Volcanic Theory (Pasichnyk, 2011). The Impact Theory states that millions of years ago a comet or an asteroid struck the Earth and the impact of that is what killed the dinosaurs, it also…

The Deep Water Horizon disaster had and still has a major impact on the Gulf coast of America. The millions of barrels of water that gushed into the ocean in April 2010 had a significant impact on the environment and the economic impact on the gulf coast. Even though the British Petroleum company and the US government tried to clean up the oil spill, there are till remnants of oil still in the gulf today. A couple weeks after the disaster occurred, the residents of the coast can see the impact…

such depths with the extreme temperatures, darkness, and immense water pressure, but they do. Over four hundred types of foraminifera, which are single-celled protists, have been found here as well as amphipods, worms, sea cucumbers, and shrimp. Along with this, a record was set for the deepest depth of a found fish. It is an unknown species of snailfish. Not only is the living of importance here, but the physical makeup of the trench is as well. Studying samples and footage taken from this…

extinction happened because of the impact of a cosmic asteroid and created a massive explosion…

and our exploitation of the earth. In each of the book’s thirteen chapters, Kolbert highlights a particular species that is now extinct and analyzes the causes and effects of its extinction. She explains the scientific history of the concept of extinction. Just as the current concept of a sixth extinction seems impossible to grasp, once the idea of rapid extinction itself was believed to be impossible. It took centuries of paradigm shifts in order for the scientific community to take the notion…