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1.0 out of 5 starsHorrible science!!! Just awful:-(((
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2020
I love the post-apocalyptic genre- when it's done well. It almost always is not. Author's want to write in this genre, but don't know anything about the science. This author is no different.
Spoilers:
First and foremost, where and how in the heck are they producing all that helium??? Did the author mean hydrogen? It's seriously like helium appears by magic! Just allofasudden there's a ton of helium where you need it! That's so wrong it's almost humorous!
Ok how is a military aircraft hardened against nuclear EMP but not lightning? It demonstrates the author's complete misunderstanding of science, because basically, lightning is the same as an EMP, so to harden for one hardens for both. If the ship can withstand multiple EMPs, it can also withstand lightening.
Clearly the author has never heard about radioactive plume analysis. Because in the book, the radiation plumes aren't plumes, they're just some kind of static force that never moved away from the source. Even with tons of wind present. That's not how radioactive fallout works. At all!
Ok, You have this diver who's done over 90 dives successfully and has never once seen one of these creatures (sirens). But all of a sudden there's thousands of them out there all across the country. How does this happen anywhere???? How is it that they all evolved exactly the same way at the same time across the country with all of this radiation around introducing random mutations? It's just not possible. Even with genetic engineering.
The list of errors just goes on and on. I can't believe they would ever make a movie out of this tripe. It would be so obvious where the errors are. And sci-fi fans are pretty up on their science, so any movie containing this many errors would just get shredded in every review.
