AUDIO: What [the film] "Armageddon" got right about space drilling, and what it (mostly) didn't

[Ryan Goble]

A "deep core" oil driller (a.k.a. Bruce Willis) is sent into space to drill a hole and drop a bomb in an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth. Could that actually be a thing? https://t.co/WRnPhzMsp5

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