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As I mentioned at the seminar on 11/21/09, the movie "2012" has some interesting
points.
When world governments realize that the earth's crust is shifting, they sell
tickets to billionaires and multimillionaires.
Top government officials
are automatically allowed to travel to - where else - China.
China has managed to build in rapid time, "arks" for the survivors
of the end of the world.
These "arks" are located in a location near China's border with Nepal, not far from
Mt. Everest.
I find it fascinating that of all of the places in the world this movie could have chose,
they chose China (probably because it was the only government who could build these
behemoths fast enough and cheap enough, and secretly enough within a mountain range.)
Then, with all of the other cheezy dialogue at the end, these arks sail off
to Africa which managed to escape the catastrophic events that the rest of the world
endured. The ending of the movie gives a whole new meaning to China in Africa.
Not worth your time unless you are very bored and want to see a few CGI scenes.
Cheryl Watson