[Bear_in_RoseBear]

One of the things that struck me about the movie was the complete ignorance of satellite and radar weather data. The only satellite ever mentioned was the space station; as if it would be impossible to look down at the Earth without a person up there to do it. As if ground-based weather radar wouldn't detect the temperature variations and other atmospheric conditions necessary to form super hail and super tornadic storms...

The movie didn't display ignorance of just basic weather science... it displayed amazing ignorance of the technology used in weather science.

[Fedora]

One of the things that struck me about the movie was the complete ignorance of satellite and radar weather data. The only satellite ever mentioned was the space station; as if it would be impossible to look down at the Earth without a person up there to do it. As if ground-based weather radar wouldn't detect the temperature variations and other atmospheric conditions necessary to form super hail and super tornadic storms...

The weather was using Stealth cloaking :)

BTW, the disaster in that movie was Jesus and Bush's fault, according to the liberals in this thread (which is in serious need of some FReeping):

Jesus is responsible for Global Warming

For the apotheosis of absurdity see esp.:

I thought you meant

BTW it doesn't mention Darksheare, but I suspect he was involved, too :)

[JenB]

I love bad science movies!

Let's see. There were two interesting previews with mine. "Cellular" looked like a good renter, and "I Robot". Did you have that preview? Asimov's spinning in his grave, but it ought to be worth watching.