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Showerthought: a physics prof in 2017 said Armageddon's asteroid would need to be the size of Texas to have that gravity, and I still argue about it
I was rewatching Armageddon last week and remembered a physics prof in 2017 saying the asteroid in that movie would need to be roughly the size of Texas to pull a space shuttle the way it does on screen, which is about 800 miles across. So now I'm stuck between two camps: the people who say that kind of goof makes the movie dumb and unwatchable, and the people like me who think the goof is the whole reason we still talk about it 25 years later. Where do you all land on this? Does a movie crossing the line from small errors into total nonsense ruin it for you, or does it just make the ride more fun?
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palmer.zara20d ago
I read that the same prof admitted the gravity thing is nonsense but said the movie still works because nobody watches it for the orbital mechanics. "Total nonsense" is kinda the point with these flicks, the science was never gonna hold up so you either laugh at it or you don't.
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