Distributors for these films didn't even have the alibi of being hit by sunny skies, since the weekend weather was pretty poor across the UK, which may have been a factor in relatively modest declines for many titles.
If the missiles were in fact only randomly targeted (within a more general area), the British could simply disperse important installations to decrease the likelihood of their being hit.
An actor friend told me how she recovered from a 1-2 punch of first being hit by a drunk driver (dragged in reverse by an SUV for an entire city block), regaining her ability to walk only to be brutally raped in her first outing.
Scientists have found that huge supervolcanoes known as the Deccan Traps, in what is now northern India, doubled their eruptions within about 50,000 years of the Earth being hit by a giant asteroid about 66 million years ago – both events combining to deliver a lethal double whammy to the stricken dinosaurs.
Indeed, the chance of AN10 colliding with our planet is no bigger than the chance of the Earth being hit by an undetected asteroid within the next hour.
Another gorgeous video of the world slowed down, created by Fluke Corporation, depicts the intricate vibrations of a cymbal being hit by a drumstick.
For the interior scenes used in the first moments of the Impala being hit, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Padalecki, and Ackles were required to sit in the car, which was in front of a blue screen.
For the interior scenes used to depict the first moments of the Impala being hit, the actors were required to sit in the car in front of a blue screen; this allowed for the truck's headlights to later be added in with visual effects.
But, a lot of the sculptures have contact mics attached to them, so they'll get the sounds of different densities of wood and metal being hit.
Since 1997, the agency has been measuring the effects of a vehicle's being hit from the side.
