Disaster Movie Scientist Ignored. In the movies scientists warn about impending disaster such as hurricanes tsunamis and earthquakes but their warnings fall on deaf ears from governments who don t want to know. The sinking of the british rms lusitania by a german u boat during world war i wasn t supposed to be unexpected or surprising since germany had ran several advertisements in the new york times warning of the ship s impending doom the advertisements ran for several weeks until the morning of the day that the lusitania left the united states.
Ok so that s as political as i will go. Details free returns return this item for free. In fact there s a whole movie subgenre in which scientists see doom approaching scramble to warn the public and get ignored by authorities until very bad things happen.
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At the start of every disaster movie there s a scientist being ignored why do we ignore smart people. The resulting disaster then kills more. Big budget hollywood disaster movies such as 2012 and san andreas have been reclassified as documentaries by the internet movie database imdb. That day it even appeared on the same page.