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ARMAGEDDON! Saving Earth By Blowing Up Asteroids?

Howdy folks, I played “guest scientist” for Fact or Fictional with Veronica Belmont this week. We discussed just how unscientific the movie Armageddon was. In 151 minutes, they make at least 168 scientific mistakes. Here’s a few of them.

If we pointed out all of the mistakes, this video would have been about an hour long. But there’s so, so, so many more. Needless to say, this one’s total fiction. Anyway, enjoy my face, on your screen, talking about science!

(by TheTechFeed)

With today’s fly-by by asteroid 2012 DA14 (which wasn’t really a cause for alarm), it’s a good time to remind everyone of the time that I sat down with Veronica to talk about how bad the asteroid science is in the movie Armageddon. 

Armageddon: Asteroid Splitting Doesn’t Work A team of grad students has called BS on Armageddon’s asteroid nuking, Earth-saving climax. Of course, this is only a surprise if you happen to ignore the rest of the movie, which is Day After Tomorrow-level unscientific. I mean, they put Bruce Willis in space, which would never happen, as he’s an official national treasure. Would we launch the Declaration of Independence into space?! Back to the bomb … Check out Jennifer Ouellette’s breakdown of the boom-boom-induced breakup, and you’ll be surprised at how much energy it would actually take to split a killer asteroid with enough force that it would miss Earth. We’re talking Sun-level energy. Essentially, picture the biggest nuclear weapon ever built. Now picture a billion of those. (via Discovery News)
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Armageddon: Asteroid Splitting Doesn’t Work

A team of grad students has called BS on Armageddon’s asteroid nuking, Earth-saving climax. Of course, this is only a surprise if you happen to ignore the rest of the movie, which is Day After Tomorrow-level unscientific. I mean, they put Bruce Willis in space, which would never happen, as he’s an official national treasure. Would we launch the Declaration of Independence into space?!

Back to the bomb …

Check out Jennifer Ouellette’s breakdown of the boom-boom-induced breakup, and you’ll be surprised at how much energy it would actually take to split a killer asteroid with enough force that it would miss Earth. We’re talking Sun-level energy.

Essentially, picture the biggest nuclear weapon ever built. Now picture a billion of those.

(via Discovery News)

Source: news.discovery.com