10 Sci-Fi Movies That Got The Science Right

By the turn of the century, it seemed every movie was about an asteroid impacting the planet, but there really were only two: Deep Impact and Armageddon. The science of Armageddon was laughably wrong all over the place, but that couldn't be said of Deep Impact, which was frighteningly plausible.

It's interesting to compare the two films because Armageddon received a great deal more attention, thanks to the cast and its status as the summer blockbuster in 1998. Deep Impact didn't attempt to throw in explosions just to have explosions, and that meant that the science seen on screen was real.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, a man who enjoys taking to social media to explain just how inaccurate movies depict science, mentioned Deep Impact as the only film he could think of where he found nothing to dispute as far as the science is concerned. That's about the highest praise a sci-fi film can receive.

NASA took notice of the physics used to depict what would happen if a chunk of comet slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, and they weren't the only ones. Sandia National Laboratories noted the accuracy of that model, which was incredibly similar to a model they created using a supercomputer.