A recent Improbable article drew attention to a paper from a team of cosmologists at the University of Leicester, UK, who calculated that, contrary to the plot-line, Bruce Willis probably had very little chance of saving the world by nuking a giant asteroid in the film Armageddon. But the team have also pried even deeper into […]
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A few gigatons short of a blockbuster (part I)
Bruce Willis heroically managed to save the world in the film 1998 Armageddon. He was able to deflect a huge Earth-bound asteroid with the expedient use of a well placed thermonuclear explosion. But some have questioned whether Willis’s feat would actually have been possible – without breaking the laws of physics . . . A […]
He climbed a chimney to see an asteroid
The strange story (stranger still as told here, machine-translated into English by the Chrome browser) of a strange man with a strangely strong desire to see an asteroid, reported (in French) in Est Republicain: He Wanted to See The Asteroid: A Madman Stuck on a Chimney A madman who wanted to see the passage of […]