Things you noticed in Armageddon without a website

[Pilot7893]

Do we really need a thread about this? YES. Anyway, yes. Post things you noticed in that "Life suckin from which there's no escape" that you didn't see posted on a website yet.
-When Freedom is landing on the asteroid, it actually glides into a landing like an airplane
-When Independence is going down, the crew is floating around while pipes are falling to the floor
-The engines are CONSTANTLY running (I guess NASA has gas money and they're not afraid to use it)
You can find a really funny review of the movie here

 

[Deke]

- Despite being a mentally-challenged multiple-murderer, Sling Blade is the head of NASA.

 

[Pilot7893]

-They have the engines on when in orbit

 

[willy88]

-They have the engines on when in orbit

You already said that...

 

[Pilot7893]

You already said that...

-They have the engines on all the time:lol:

 

[ryan]

It's a movie, who cares about accuarcy.

 

[Pilot7893]

It's a movie, who cares about accuarcy.

I couldn't agree with you more, but it kind of went over the limit

 

[ryan]

For the first one it might be possible for the shuttle to land on the astroid like that, becuase the astroid is moving it might be possible for that.

 

[Deke]

For the first one it might be possible for the shuttle to land on the astroid like that, becuase the astroid is moving it might be possible for that.

Uhhh... No.

 

[Andy44]

It's a movie, who cares about accuarcy.

This is the internet, who cares about proper spelling.

 

[MajorTom]

-They have the engines on when in orbit

This one's bugged me a long time. I've had to explain countless times to flatlanders that in orbit, one does not need their main engines on the whole time...this sort of thing in a movie does nothing to help the general public understand, actually makes it worse....ARRGH!

 

[Deke]

This is the internet, who cares about proper spelling.

I'm glad there's people like you in this world. Really.

 

[thomasantony]

They "BANK" like airplanes in order to turn, when they go to dock with the space station. The station is spinning at insane rates at which the docking would have been impossible. The docking adapters would have broken and sent the shuttles flying off. The people inside would be unconscious at that rate.

There are "SPIKES" on the asteroid which couldn't have formed by any natural process. The damn thing is so big that it would have been visible to the naked eye many months prior. There is no asteroid in the Solar System that is that big. They suggest that breaking such a gigantic asteroid in half AND giving it the required separation velocity to miss the earth (6400km) in just 4 hours.

AAhh It was torture watching it. Even more than watching the color tricks for a looong time or just waiting for the dang ship to land in 2001: A Space Oddysey.

 

[Deke]

Oh yeah and by digging JUST 800 feet into an 800 mile wide asteroid will EASILY split it in two.

 

[simonpro]

This is the internet, who cares about proper spelling.

Frankly I don't give a damn about how accurate Armageddon is. I think if you're watching any Bruce Willis movie for accurate portrayal of reality then there's a problem somewhere.
It would be nice if the movie were 100% realistic, but then it might be a pretty boring movie.

 

[pandadude]

Frankly I don't give a damn about how accurate Armageddon is. I think if you're watching any Bruce Willis movie for accurate portrayal of reality then there's a problem somewhere.
It would be nice if the movie were 100% realistic, but then it might be a pretty boring movie.

I agree. It is interesting to look at all the inaccuracies, but at the end of the day, they obviously didn't set out to create a realistic movie, and that's a good thing IMO. Armageddon isn't the type of film that would have benefitted from being ultra-realistic. It probably wouldn't have been very good if it had been 100% realistic (although that implies that I found it good despite the inaccuracies, which isn't true either - I thought it was pretty lame).

 

[n122vu]

- The astronauts access Freedom & Independence, on pads 39A & 39B, I assume, from the same gantry, even though the pads are miles apart (which is seen when they pull the cameras back for the launch shot)

- Not a movie glitch really, but the same guy from Apollo 13 that wanted to do the direct abort return (typhoon warning guy) is still working for NASA in Armageddon, is the same age, and is the same guy who wants to slow the asteroid down with solar sails. Yeah, that'll work.

 

[Pilot7893]

-When the wing of Independence gets blown off, it spirals out of control.

 

[bujin]

Ah yes. We had a thread on this subject a couple of weeks ago on the Gwlad Rugby forum.

Wouldn't it take up less space on the Orbiter Forum database if we list all the things Armageddon got right?

Erm...

1. There is a place called "The Earth".
2. There are asteroids.

That's about it, isn't it?



Ok, let's chuck a few more problems in there.

1) Both Freedom and Independence take off within minutes of each other, both heading to the same destination, and therefore both having to head for the same inclination. If NASA ever sanctioned two craft launching on the same inclination, it wouldn't be at more or less the same time, as there would almost inevitably be a collision.

2) SRB separation - the ET falls off too.

3) MECO occurs several minutes later, but the ET had already gone...

4) Why is MIR only crewed by only one (slightly crazy) Russian?

5) Why is MIR carrying enough fuel for the two spacecraft to get to the asteroid - especially when even a modified Space Shuttle wouldn't ever be able to get that far away from the Earth?

6) Since when did MIR ever rotate to create artificial gravity? It's not big enough, for starters...

7) Allowing for (6), surely it would have been safer to switch on the artificial gravity after the two craft have docked - docking with a rotating station is not an easy task, and that's if the spaceship is heading for the relatively stationary centre of rotation, which in this case, they were not!

8) It didn't exactly take a long time to get to the moon...

9) An irregular shaped asteroid "the size of Texas"??? Texas is around 1000 miles across. An body becomes spherical under gravity typically when it gets to (IIRC) around 100 miles across.

10) And finally (for now) - no shutdown procedure when the shuttle (which would never have survived re-entry anyway) lands. They crew just get out and walk down the runway. They'd probably have all taken in all those noxious gases dissipating from the shuttle and died!

Other than that, top notch film.

(Except for the fact that it's a really bad film, of course)

 

[Urwumpe]

4) Why is MIR only crewed by only one (slightly crazy) Russian?

Wasn't he actually the only sane person in the whole movie?