Armageddon/YMMV: Difference between revisions

m
revise quote template spacing
m (Mass update links)
m (revise quote template spacing)
 
(2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1:
{{work}}
* [[Anvilicious]]: '''''Lots''''' of comments are made about [[I Want My Jetpack|how pathetic our space technology is]], and [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|how utterly screwed we'd be if it happened for real]].
{{quote| '''Dan Truman:''' Our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|it's a big-ass sky]].<br />
'''Dan Truman:''' Even if [[Colony Drop|the asteroid itself hits]] the water, it's still hitting land. [[Story -Boarding the Apocalypse|It'll flash boil millions of gallons of sea water and slam into the ocean bedrock.]] Now if it's a Pacific Ocean impact, which we think it will be, it'll create a [[Giant Wall of Watery Doom|tidal wave 3 miles high, travel at a thousand miles an hour, covering California, and washing up in Denver]]. Japan's gone, Australia's wiped out. [[Depopulation Bomb|Half the world's population will be incinerated by the heat blast]], and the rest will [[After the End|freeze to death from nuclear winter]].<br />
'''Harry Stamper:''' And this is the best that you c - that the-[[The Government]], the '''''[[Eagle Land|U.S. government]]''''' can come up with? I mean, you-you're [[NASA]] for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You-you're the guys that think this shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a [[Time for Plan B|backup plan]], that [[Million-to-One Chance|these eight boy scouts right here]], that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me?<br />
'''General Kimsey:''' [[Crazy Prepared|We spend 250 billion dollars a year on defense]]. And here we are. The fate of the planet is in the hands of [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun!]]<br />