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Geostorm: Abi and Freda Uncut
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It's another UNCUT special, back to our eighth episode and third ever dumb science movie! A two brothers classic: Geostorm. This week you get 20 extra minutes of our incredulity at the ridiculousness of this movie! Enjoy
We've got frozen deserts, exploding cities, giant tsunamis and #airlockdrama! Abi tries to understand the scientific and economic logistics of a space net while Freda just wants this movie to flush itself out of her brain. It hurts all the science parts.
"I want it dead, I want it's whole family dead, I want it down in the ground!"
Things you might find interesting:
- Will weather control happen in the future? - BBC
- Can China control the weather? - How Stuff Works
- Cloud Seeding: should we or shouldn't we? - Independent
- Geostorm and the ethics of geoengineering - The Conversation
- The disasters of disaster movies - Yale Climate Connections
- Project Poyeye - Office of the Historian (US Dept of State...not an onion article)
- The science behind Geostorm - Smithsonian Mag
- Rockets and rocket launches - National Geographic
- BBC How to build a satellite - Youtube
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