An curved arrow pointing right. Nuking an asteroid on its path to annihilating Earth is a terrible idea. Sorry Bruce Willis. Produced by Justin Gmoser and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video ...

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Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at nine asteroid disasters from movies and TV and rates them based on realism. She looks at "Armageddon" (1998), "Greenland" (2020), "Deep Impact" (1998 ...

In "Armageddon," a catastrophic meteor shower destroys the Space Shuttle Atlantis and devastates parts of the world. NASA discovers that a Texas-sized asteroid is on a collision course with Earth ...

FOR a generation of scientists – and science fiction fans – Hollywood movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact have helped shape and scare society. The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our ...

However, there are other ideas, including moving the asteroid more slowly over time and even detonating a nuclear bomb - an option familiar from Hollywood movies such as Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Popular culture tends to focus on only the most spectacular possibilities: think of the hurtling asteroid of the film Armageddon or the alien invasion of Independence Day. While a dramatic end to ...