This 1998 blockbuster was so exquisitely awful
that it's hard to pick a single instance of bad science
in it, since the movie is essentially 99 44/100 percent
steaming garbage. The plot is that a Texas-size asteroid is
spotted 18 days before it hits Earth. NASA sends a team of
wisecracking oil-rig workers (including a grimacing Bruce Willis)
to plant a bomb that will split it in half so that the two separating
chunks will miss Earth, save the day, and allow the boy to get the
girl. But first of all, there is no asteroid that big. Second, if there
were, it would be bright enough for Galileo to have seen it.Third,
it would take decades for it to get from the asteroid belt to Earth.
Fourth, oil-rig workers? Fifth, the bomb used to split the asteroid
would need to explode with the force of a hundred billion one-mega-
ton bombs, millions of times the total yield of all nuclear weapons
ever detonated. I, for one, am glad no such bomb exists.
I just wish the movie had bombed as well.
Ok, fine. The "science" is lame. But if you didn't at least shed a tear or two when Chick's estranged family greets him at the end, then you are a soul-less harpy who eats children (and possibly puppies). Begin viewing at 6:32-6:57.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lcMeM-3wtw
No comments:
Post a Comment