{"id":1147,"date":"2004-05-28T00:42:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T00:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1147.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"the-day-after-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/05\/28\/the-day-after-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The day after tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts after having been to see <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319262\/\"><i>The Day After Tomorrow<\/i><\/a> this evening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was reminded a lot of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0752808869\/legenofthesun-21\"><i>Mother Of Storms<\/i><\/a> by John Barnes.  Barnes had better science, I seem to recall.  The global disaster played out over a longer timespan, and didn&#8217;t involve quite so much ice.  Lots of wind and rain, though.  Worth a read if you enjoyed <i>TDAT<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>As is always the case with large-scale disaster scenarios, I start to wonder just how much of the world&#8217;s population we could lose, and still retain a technologically advanced civilization.  Whether it&#8217;s a comet impact or a plague that kills 9 out of every 10, how much of a knock could our society take, and still remain standing?<\/li>\n<li>The trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irobotmovie.com\/\"><i>I, Robot<\/i><\/a> made my blood run cold.  Asimov&#8217;s robot stories centre around a fundamentally logical, rational premise: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Laws_of_Robotics\">the three laws of robotics<\/a>.  The stories are generally intricate, thoughtful, and calm.  Seeing masses of robots running amok in the trailer, looking and acting like a bunch of mechanical <i>Star Wars<\/i> stormtroopers, made me break out in a sweat just thinking how <em>bad<\/em> this film might be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts after having been to see <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319262\/\"><i>The Day After Tomorrow<\/i><\/a> this evening:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}