Bruce Willis Saved the World in ‘Armageddon’ — But Scientists Say the Plot Defied Every Law of Physics

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Bruce Willis rescues planet Earth in the 1998 sci-fi disaster flick “Armageddon,” playing a blue-collar oil driller who drills into an asteroid “the size of Texas” and explodes it into harmless fragments with a nuclear bomb.

Let’s just say the laws of physics didn’t make it into the script. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson complained that it violated more laws of physics per minute than any movie ever made.

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And although the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) cooperated with the production, it tacked on a disclaimer to assure audiences it did not “endorse” it.

Ben Affleck, playing a fellow driller, has argued that it would make more sense to train astronauts to drill a hole than to train oil drillers to be astronauts.