Hollywood’s Solution to a Large Asteroid
The 1998 film “Armageddon” dealt with the end of the world scenario that Johnson has been trying to avoid at all costs. In the movie, a massive asteroid is on a collision course for Earth and is projected to strike in 18 days. When that happens, all life will end. So NASA hires Harry Stamper, an oil driller played by Bruce Willis, to land on the asteroid, plant a nuclear bomb inside and detonate it before the asteroid reaches our atmosphere.