- After thinking about the depth of the absurdity that the movie sank to, it becomes clear that the movie is in on the joke. It's like Airplane!, but played completely straight. There's even an exchange where they list every reason why the very premise of the movie is impossible, why they can't go to the core. Which is followed by, "Yes. But what if we could?" Every aspect of the movie knows how ridiculous everything is: the script, the actors, the director, everyone. It's all played straight, but the movie throws you a sardonic wink every now and then to make sure you know that they know everything is BS. It even takes Refuge in Audacity every now and then (lightning bolts causing stone to explode?).
- The Colosseum likely still has metal in it from its construction, or fragments leftover, also that sheer amount of lightning may have been enough to charge a non-conductor. Though still not very likely, the minor possibility is there.
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is a good article that goes into detail about ridiculousness of movie plot. "The cast is rounded out by DJ Qualls who plays a stereotypical convicted computer hacker called Rat. He is brought on board for the critical task of preventing anyone on the Internet from precipitating a worldwide panic by posting theories about the impending disaster. Apparently, dead pacemaker patients, berserk window-smashing pigeons, bizarre space shuttle crash landings, monstrously powerful thunderstorms, the Golden Gate bridge collapse, unexpected nightly displays of the aurora borealis, and the total destruction of Rome, all in around three months, aren't enough to generate concern." - On close examination, Vergil doesn't exactly look like an underground tunneling machine like you might find in Drill Tank, instead looking more like a futuristic underwater train. And that's exactly what it is. Vergil doesn't drill; it uses its lasers to melt the rock around it, then swims though the magma bubble that results, which then cools and closes up behind the ship. It's basically the underground equivalent of a wormhole generator. This also conveniently handwaves the most basic limitation of underground travel; material displacement. Molten magma can be pushed aside much easier than solid rock.
- Fridge Horror: So Rat released the files of what happened and the unsung heroes who saved the Earth will be sung and the villains will be brought to justice, and that is good… but now people know the creation of artificial earthquakes is feasible both as a technology and a weapon of mass destruction (assuming the heroes did enough trimming of the files to not release the whole how-to they still had to leave enough intel on how this thing is not some kind of sci-fi joke that determined enough scientists on any faction may figure it out). And said enemies may think they can work out the kinks and make it work "right" or they believe that risking stopping the core a second time is worth it as long as their opponents die with them. Absolute best case scenario there will be a whole lot of grizzly Disastrous Demonstrations as people race to make their own DESTINI and second best (and that is being nice) Rat just released the next generation of Mutually Assured Destruction unto the world.
- It's also possible that the countries of the world will enter into a mutual agreement never to use the weapons, much like how nuclear weapons have not been used in combat since 1945.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fridge/TheCore
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