links for 2010-02-22

  • "Red Dawn" is being remade, due out in November. Fun fact: The original was the first movie to receive the PG-13 rating, and was, in terms of deaths per minute, the most violent film ever made, at the time of its release.
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  • Jupiter is a planet without a surface. The gas giant has a 700 mile gradient that begins with 40 miles of cloud cover, followed by hydrogen gas that gradually becomes denser, until it's liquid hydrogen. At some arbitrary boundary along there, one may consider the surface of the planet to have begun. But even that liquid hydrogen gradually becomes denser, until it becomes metallic hydrogen. It's only the very core of the planet that is rocky, a planet as we think of it. Jupiter might be interesting to scientists, but to the rest of us, it's barely a planet. Which makes sense, since Jupiter is basically a failed star.

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4 replies on “links for 2010-02-22”

  1. They’ve been filming Red Dawn in Detroit for some time now. Need a city that looks like it’s war torn and bombed out? Come to Michigan! We’ve got a few!

  2. I’ve always thought the most disappointing aspect of John Carpenter’s “Escape From New York” was that it was filmed in St. Louis.

    well, that plus the fact that the awesome image on the box-cover is something that doesn’t even remotely come close to happening in the movie.

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