Original upload date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:48:39 GMT
[c 1997: Turner Original Productions / American Artists / Channel 5 / Warner Home Video] Early documentary based on the original research of Randall Carlson, premiered as comet Hale-Bopp was closest t
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o the sun in the spring of '97. Features Gene Shoemaker and David Levy, plus Randall Carlson discussing the upper mid-western fires of October 1871.
Includes brief reviews of the Tunguska event of 1908, comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter, the great Chicago fire and simultaneous fires across Wisconsin, potential destruction from the next eminent impact, regularity of atmospheric detonations, and more... (Fake newscast was removed due to critical implausibilities included in the dramatization)