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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:34:10 EST
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From: redford%doctor.DEC@decwrl.ARPA

The movie about a chunk of the Earth splitting off while our heros
watch from a half a mile away is "A Crack in the World".  The premise
is that scientists try to tap the geothermal energy at the Earth's core
by setting off a nuclear explosion deep, deep underground.  The blast
triggers a fault line that starts propagating around the world.  Get
this, though, they think that if a crack goes all the way around the
Earth it will break apart.  They think that the Earth is held together
by its crust the way an egg is held by its shell.  Nitwits.  Aside
from that the movie was fairly well made.

John Redford