Josh Clark
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George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft, among others.
But it seemed from the trailer that they fully like just fictionalized and that it was it was a bomb and it was sabotage.
And that was that was the movie.
Yeah, that's what it looked like to me.
And apparently it was a $15 million movie at the time, which was a lot of dough in 1975 for a movie.
Yeah, it was just the peak.
It was peak disaster film.
So they were looking at all angles, I think.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, bombs being fired at from below, from above.
The one thing they do know for sure is that the hydrogen was what caused it to go up in flames in like 30 seconds.
There is no controversy about that.
How that happened is still not for sure known.
Witnesses said that as the ship approached, it appeared to be glowing,
before the fire even started.
And so at the time, scientists heard that, and they were like, oh, okay, well, it gathered an electrostatic charge because of these storms that were going on, and that there was probably like a hydrogen leak, and that's what ignited the whole thing.