re: Armageddon is the finest film ever made

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Is that the movie where NASA thought they could train oil workers to be astronauts quicker than they could train astronauts to drill into an asteroid???

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I actually don't have a problem with that. It would have been impossible to give a group of astronauts the raw experience required to be able to on the spot problem solve drilling issues under pressure like they would have had to do.

It's relatively realistic to train the drillers in a few days on whats required to go into space with two trained and experienced pilots to get them to the rock.