14 Things That Happen In Movies That Are Scientifically Improbable

"Quick, we’ll blow the asteroid up with a nuclear bomb."..."What happened?""Nothing really, an asteroid big enough to pose a threat to life on Earth would barely get a scratch from your average nuke. We broke some chunks off, but they’re still heading for us.""Has this got anything to do with the fact that we sent barely trained oil rig drillers on a dangerous space mission?""Probably not, but that wasn’t the smartest move either. One of them wasn’t mentally robust enough to handle it and rode the nuke.""Rode the nuke?""Rode the nuke, sir."

Ignoring, for a second, the notion that we wouldn't notice a Texas-sized asteroid until the very last moment, sending a troupe of Very Good Diggers into outer space to meet it armed with a deadly weapon is probably not the smartest move humanity could make.

Notable Offenders: Armageddon