Half-Assed Internet Research
The infeasible asteroid plan; NASA’s error-counting exercise; real shuttle footage; Criterion’s final LaserDisc
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- A 2011 student paper calculated that the required bomb would need roughly a billion times the power of the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. — Bill Simmons
- NASA management training uses the film to spot errors and has identified at least 168. — Bill Simmons
- The shuttle launches use real launch footage. — Bill Simmons
- Armageddon was Criterion LaserDisc spine 384 and the last LaserDisc title the company released. — Bill Simmons