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Bruce Willis
The Bruce Willis approach from “Armageddon” (1998) might be our favourite, though it is extremely unrealistic. Willis performs Harry Stamper, an oil miner by commerce, who leads a bunch of unlikely astronauts, largely colleagues from his oil rig. They fly out to a hazardous asteroid and attempt to drill deep within the floor; as soon as the probe is deep sufficient, the story goes, a nuke must be sufficient to blow the asteroid astray.
Stamper is decided to do the work nicely: “I have never, NEVER missed a depth that I have aimed for,” he assures NASA and his group. But issues do not precisely go to plan. The scheme probably would not have labored anyway, as probably all of the nuke would have finished was blow up the asteroid right into a cloud of particles nonetheless on monitor to hit Earth.
But if nothing else, Willis and his Hollywood group raised the profile of planetary protection excessive sufficient to get within the public eye. In the identical 12 months that “Armageddon” and the opposite huge space asteroid movie of that point, “Deep Impact,” launched, Congress directed NASA to seek out all the near-Earth asteroids no less than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) large that would pose an affect danger to Earth.
