You know what always got me about that description of the asteroid in “Armageddon” being “the size of Texas”? Texas is measured in square miles — two-dimensionally — while, I would assume, an asteroid on a collision course with Earth would be measured three-dimensionally, in cubic miles or something of that sort. Unless I missed something. That was a long time ago, after all.
Yeah… presumably a relatively roundish asteroid the size of Texas would cause more damage than a flat one the size of Texas… assuming the flat one wasn’t so thin it’d distintegrate in the atmosphere.
But then again… Armageddon isn’t exactly one of those movies I’d expect scientific accuracy from . . . let alone anything else that interests people like me.
ZING, Y’ALL.
Yeah, this guy already did a pretty dope write up: http://www.pankmagazine.com/?p=1202
Hell, Texas really shouldn’t be the measure of anything. …Unless it’s people’s girth. …Both fatty and gravid.
You know what always got me about that description of the asteroid in “Armageddon” being “the size of Texas”? Texas is measured in square miles — two-dimensionally — while, I would assume, an asteroid on a collision course with Earth would be measured three-dimensionally, in cubic miles or something of that sort. Unless I missed something. That was a long time ago, after all.
Yeah… presumably a relatively roundish asteroid the size of Texas would cause more damage than a flat one the size of Texas… assuming the flat one wasn’t so thin it’d distintegrate in the atmosphere.
But then again… Armageddon isn’t exactly one of those movies I’d expect scientific accuracy from . . . let alone anything else that interests people like me.
I’m a Texan and I lack girth.
I don’t get it.
Nano Rhino is a small rhino.
Eh… you’ve got time.