We’re a long way from 1998, folks.
Once upon a time, “Armageddon” represented the nadir of scientific collaboration in space-set movies when director Michael Bay told Ben Affleck to “Shut the f*** up” after questioning the premise of training oil drillers to become astronauts and blow up an incoming asteroid …
instead of simply training astronauts how to drill a hole on an asteroid.
Not that scientific accuracy is the end-all, be-all when it comes to entertainment, of course, but we have since received much more worthwhile efforts in the form of Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” and its…The post Don’t Look Up Science Advisor Dr.
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