who has seen the Time Machine?
The scenes where the Moon is seen to be breaking apart because of nuclear demolitions to build underground luxury resorts - is all because of this!
Time Machine ScriptAbout halfway down there is the 2030 part (then called 2005) in which the school kids ask about the lunar terraforming
quote:
EXT. PARK (2005) - DAY
Alexander sits unnoticed in the Time Machine as he watches a
group of schoolchildren and their teacher gathering around
the informational kiosk. It is a public information booth
with a video screen showing the word VOX. A glowing red blip
within the "O".
The Vox kiosk is activated when the TEACHER steps in front of
a sensor eye.
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
May I help you?
TEACHER
Yes, please... tell us about the
terraforming.
The children watch, delighted, as images of the moon and
renderings and videos of some massive engineering project
appear on the Vox screen.
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
The joint United Nations/Microsoft
terraforming operation began nine
months ago with the Moon Base Alpha
landings. After establishing
Plymouth Center the terraformers
began colony construction. Can I
tell you more?
CHILD
What are they doing now?
Alexander watches, stunned. A machine that converses with
people.
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
Currently, the terraformers are
preparing the first excavation
demolitions for the subterranean
chambers. It is projected that the
first lunar colonists should be
landing within the decade. Can I
tell you more?
Alexander gapes at the Vox kiosk. Magnificent renderings of
a vast underground metropolis. People living on the moon.
He must see this grand adventure out. He presses on...
TIME TRAVEL
But almost immediately the Time Machine is lurching and
buffeting -- a strange darkness spreading over it as air raid
sirens scream --
Alexander is alarmed -- he begins to pull back on the control
lever -- the date on the display clicks to: AUGUST 26, 2007.
And Alexander and the Time Machine suddenly topple over as
the ground lurches below them --
EXT. PARK (2007) - DAY
Alexander looks up from the grass...
Right into the eyes of a small albino alligator.
The alligator blinks at him and then slithers off, a brood of
other alligators with it.
Alexander glances to the street -- sees an enormous pack of
rats emerging from a sewer drain -- a thick, undulating
carpet of rats --
And Alexander feels the vibrations. The earth, a steady
rumble. His eye is drawn to a small puddle of water near
him. The water swirls around strangely and then -- whoosh --
forms into a vortex and spirals away into the sky --
Alexander follows the water with his eyes and finally sees
it...
The Moon.
Filling the sky as if it were falling toward the Earth.
Parts of the moon are beginning to sheer off -- violently
peeling away like the skin of an onion -- as it impacts the
gravitational Roche Limit, 7,300 miles above the Earth. (The
moon is currently 230,000 miles above the Earth.)
The people on the street race around, tense and desperate,
flowing along the streets and sidewalks. National Guard
soldiers are trying to retain order, urgent voices into
megaphones --
Alexander hauls himself up -- and races into the mob --
EXT. STREET (2007) - DAY
He grabs a man --
ALEXANDER
What's going on -- ?!
The Man pulls away from him, terrified -- Alexander is
bustled along the sidewalk in the mass of people -- He turns
to a woman:
ALEXANDER
Please tell me -- what's
happening?!
She ignores him -- he is buffeted along in the mob of people
-- then, a voice, remarkably calm in the chaos, a familiar
voice:
CALM VOICE
May I help you?... May I help
you?... May I help you?...
Alexander pushes his way through the frenzy of people toward
the voice. Finds himself at...
The front steps of the Fifth Avenue New York Public Library.
The twin stone lions looming over the chaos on the street.
The calm voice is coming from another Vox kiosk, an upgrade
of the one he saw previously. Alexander unintentionally
activates the unit by stepping in front of a red sensor eye.
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
May I help you?
ALEXANDER
I -- what are you?!
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
I am the Fifth Avenue Public
Library informational kiosk. VOX
registration NY-114. May I help
you?
ALEXANDER
What's happening to the moon?!
Informational videos appear on the screen, showing the cause
and horror of the moon's fall, as:
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
The 2005 terraforming demolitions
for the lunar excavations sent the
moon into a diminishing retrograde
orbit resulting in global
gravitational fluctuations,
increased seismic activity and
tidal anomalies. Can I tell you
more?
ALEXANDER
No -- wait -- the moon's falling
out of orbit -- that's not
possible!
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
Well, considering it is, in fact,
happening, I would assume it's
possible. The retrograde orbit
began in 2005 when the demolitions
for the lunar colonies --
ALEXANDER
Why is it -- breaking up?
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
I was getting to that... The moon
has reached the gravitational Roche
Limit, 7,300 miles above the
surface of the Earth. This has
created pressure on the lunar
stratum beyond gravitational
tolerances. It might be helpful to
know that the nearest public
evacuation shelters can be found at
Grand Central Station, Madison
Square Garden --
Then -- behind Alexander -- the entire street EXPLODES up --
the asphalt twisting crazily -- people tossed through the
air --
And Hell has come to earth.
The earth begins to shake and quake and undulate violently --
as if gravity itself is rebelling.
Above -- a huge part of the moon breaks away --
Alexander gapes around -- horrified to see violent seismic
and gravitational upheavals -- the tectonic plates shifting
wildly, jutting up at harsh angles -- the East River swirling
into a twisting cyclone of water spiraling into the sky --
And most shocking of all: a volcanic mountain BURSTING up
through Manhattan.
A National Guard soldier races to him --
SOLDIER
Underground -- we have to -- !
His words are drowned out by a DEAFENING BLAST -- the
reverberation sending SHOCK WAVES down the street -- people
are thrown through the air, blood streaming from some
punctured eardrums --
In the distance, the volcano is ERUPTING --
The soldier hustles a mass of people toward a subway entrance
-- they scurry down --
Alexander spins around and races back, towards the Time
Machine.
As the Vox Kiosk continues its lonely chore:
VOX KIOSK (V.O.)
May I help you?... May I help you?
EXT. STREET (2007) - DAY
Alexander sprints down the street, passing horrific flashes
of the end:
-- Looters, lighting fires and taking nihilistic joy in their
useless treasures...
-- A family, kneeling in prayer, holding hands...
-- Doomsday cultists, celebrating the end. A macabre Dance
of Death as the city dies...
-- A man standing quite calmly, trying to use his cell
phone...
-- A taxi trying to drive through the mayhem, desperate
people attacking the taxi, trying to get in, trying to get
away...
Then -- the earth HEAVES violently and Alexander is thrown to
the ground -- in the distance, but much closer, another
VOLCANO BLASTS UP -- THRUSTING through the earth -- RIPPING
aside the Empire State Building and most of midtown
Manhattan --
Alexander barely has time to pull himself to his feet before
it happens again --
The THUNDEROUS explosion -- the cascading SHOCK WAVE --
Alexander is hurled through the air --
He SMASHES into a parked car, shattering the windshield -- he
rolls off the car, his coat shredded, a gaping wound in his
side --
As the new, closer volcano ERUPTS in a torrent of spewing
lava -- great rivers and explosions of lava everywhere --
JETS of lava SHOOT through the air -- incinerating everything
in sight --
Gasping through his pain, Alexander rises and hurries down
the street -- he tosses off his shredded coat -- his injury
slows him, but he goes as quickly as he can --
But a vast TIDAL WAVE OF LAVA is careening after him --
burning everything --
And then he see it... the park... the Time Machine.
It is a race against time as Alexander sprints for the Time
Machine -- the lava closer and closer --
Alexander leaps to the Time Machine and hauls it to its
upright position -- the lava is almost on him -- he dives
into the Time Machine and SLAMS the lever forward --
A high-pitched whine -- building -- the world undulating
around Alexander --
JUST as the tidal wave of lava ROARS over him --
It shows that Microsoft is responsible for the downfall of humanity and the seperation into two subspecies - the Eloi and the Morlocks.
Now who REALLY want's to see m$ die before 2037
(sorry about the length
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