Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: stylin19a
The Final Countdown was a great movie.

I love how James Farentino gets left behind in 1941 on an island.

He turns out to be the "designer" of the aircraft carrier in the future (1979).

43 posted on 02/17/2017 11:41:34 AM PST by boop ("We don't feel like we are doing anything illegal"- Democrat credo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies ]


To: boop; C19fan

sorry...I had to go back and look...
It was the USS Nimtz that went back in time.


45 posted on 02/17/2017 11:57:05 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

To: boop
It's had to imagine, but in the movie The Final Countdown, the time difference between Pearl Harbor and 1979 is almost the same at the movie The Final Countdown in 1979 and now.

That would be a turkey shoot, and everybody knew it, with a 1979 carrier vs the 1941 Japanese. But how would a carrier of today fare against a carrier of 1979? I'd think a carrier of today would have it's work cut out for it against a 1979 carrier. Now maybe some stealth planes could get thru and sink the 1979 carrier. But when you think about it, it certainly appears to have been more technological change from 1941 to 1979 than 1979 to 2017.

59 posted on 02/17/2017 2:48:33 PM PST by Pappy Smear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

To: boop

A6M2 Zero versus AIM-9 Sidewinder missile...’nuff said.


62 posted on 02/17/2017 7:30:49 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson