Coming Soon has the synopsis for SURVIVE, and it’s a doozy: ““In the film, Julia and her loving husband celebrate their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean,” reads the official synopsis. “When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh.””
Yeah, I should be kinder. You don’t go to horror movies for the science. You go to horror movies for the swarming murder-crabs. Even if all of them should be exploding from the lack of pressure. And even then: as I said to my wife, watching sea monsters decompress like that would be impressively gory, but then what are you going to watch for the next hour and fifty nine minutes?
Reverse the polarity!
Ye cannae break the laws of physics!
From what little I know of crabs from watching Deadliest Catch, they seem to be pretty resistant to decompression.
But the earth having an apocalyptic polarity shift… (Sinus salute) The magnetic pole moves around, and sometimes shifts dramatically for (unknown at the time I was studying Geology, but I’m a quarter century out of date) reasons. It doesn’t have this kind of dramatic effect. An increase in radiation until the magnetosphere settles down. Likely a period of heavy volcanism (associated with, but causation…?) so, weather disruptions up to and including ice ages. Migratory animals are going to have potentially fatal problems. So bad, but Cosmic Horror.
Well….you nailed it in the last line there.
Our mortal sciences and engineering are not fundamentally vulnerable to a polar shift.
The delicate machines and intricate bindings that restrain a cosmic horror on the other hand…?
More fool us for having forgotten the knowledge and forsaken the religions that warned and educated us on how to deal with such an inevitability.