Asteroid Expert Rates Nine Asteroid Disasters In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2022
- Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at nine asteroid disasters from movies and TV and rates them based on realism. She also discusses scenes that show meteor showers and comet impacts.
She looks at asteroid scenes from "Armageddon" (1998), "The Good Dinosaur" (2015) and "The Expanse" S5E3 (2020). She also rates comet impacts from "Greenland" (2020), "Deep Impact" (1998), "Bruce Almighty" (2003), and "Don't Look Up" (2021). Benedix also rates the realism of a meteorite in "Color Out of Space" (2019), and a meteor shower in "Ice Age: Collision Course" (2016).
Benedix is a cosmic mineralogist and astrogeologist in Perth, Australia. She is a professor at Curtin University, where she is a member of the Space Science and Technology Centre in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and a fellow of The Meteoritical Society. Benedix is the author of multiple papers on astrogeology and specializes in extraterrestrial geology, geochemistry, and planetary science.
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Asteroid Expert Rates Nine Asteroid Disasters In Movies and TV | How Real Is It?
Explosives experts: "Completely unrealistic, too much fireball!"
I think the most unrealistic thing in Don't Look Up, is that apparently there was enough force to eject parts of cities into space, but somehow leave the buildings on chunks of land intact.
Armageddon
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I appreciate her honesty. She did not throw out high scores just because. Would love know what her opinion is on Moldavite. The coolest stone on earth.
"if you see a fireball coming at you. just stand there... if its big it doesn't matter" I lol'ed
Really appreciate the fact she tries to explain it without over complicating it, good job 👍
Fun fact about the Colour Out Of Space: the fact that the meteor is unusually hot is actually commented on in the book it's based on. It's one of the first things that clues the science team from Miskatonic University investigating it that there's something not quite right about it.
This Lady is harsh but fair.
I appreciate her trying to calm everyone's fears about the risks being low. The assumption being that we know where the big asteroids are and it's hard for us to get surprised. Trouble is, long period comets are 1) far away and not detectable until they're on their way in; 2) really big; 3) falling in toward the sun (and, potentially, us) from great distances and therefore really moving by the time they're here. The risks of long period comets are small but very real.
in fairness, they did actually point out the explosives issue in Armageddon. which was why they decided to put a single bomb on a fault line that ran the length of the object to break it in half instead of destroying it. I also think it actually was supposed to be a comet, not an asteroid, but just said asteroid because of deep impact coming out.
The Expanse was a great series, they did a lot of fact checking on the actual realism of space & how things would actually act in it.
Some might call her honesty brutal. I say calling out Hollywood for its overhyped, unrealistic, overdramatized, crap is spot on. One thing I liked about the Martian is that the filmmakers took great care to stick to a science-based story that was practical. The fact that actual scientists gave its believability a thumbs up was good enough for me.
Would've really loved to have seen her analysis on the asteroid in Disney's Dinosaur (2000), such a shame. I remember it being a very intense scene that stuck with me.
Really appreciated her in-depth approach that is coming from her years of experience. It is actually a privilege to be able to watch this kind of programmes that also for free.
I love these. I especially love the "this would never happen, 1/10." Preach it, Gretchen!
I'm actually really happy to see Greenland on here because I think it's a really underrated film that not enough people saw or talk about. In my very humble layman opinion, I think it's one of the more realistic takes we've had on film of what could happen with an impending impact incident on earth. I know that the expert disagrees with me, and she may be right. But she also freely admitted that we've never seen firsthand a disaster of this size.........so who really knows? (I do agree however that the total global devastation of every city isn't very likely, but it makes for good cinema.)
I found it humorous she rates 'Deep Impact as a 1/10 for realism because about a month ago I read an article that 'Deep Impact' rated highest amongst astrophysicists for realism in disaster movies. Speaking of astrophysicists, Neil Degrasse Tyson (love him or hate him) even listed it on his Top 10 Sci-Fi movies saying, "'There have been many asteroid/comet disaster films. But this one took the time to get most of the physics right,..."I found humorous
The thing about the impact damage in Greenland is that immediately after it shows the entire globe, and there were impact marks all over it caused from pieces of the comet that had broken off. Not all the damage was from the main body of the comet.