The Noah's Ark Principle

The feature debut of filmmaker Roland Emmerich (Independence Day), set in the near future of 1997, centres on a weather-controlling space station at risk of being hijacked.

Most weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods.

The space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West. Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe.

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