What we learned from 'Meteor: Path to Destruction'

Shoulder missile launchers fire projectiles larger than the launcher itself.

When a meteor strikes, a flaming gas tanker comes out.

There are missile silos in the middle of downtown Las Vegas.

Meteor watch facilities have the authority to fire hundreds of nuclear warheads.

When missiles are being launched out of silos, they are actually being launched out of 70's stock footage of AA guns.

The psychopathic cop subplot is completely unrelated.

Meteors going 160,000 mph can be shot down with an RPG.

Meteors can destroy entire cities, but not knock over a fat guy carrying groceries.

Sending documents and information digitally is absurd, drive hundreds of miles instead.

Running out of gas causes your car to overheat.

Every time you run out of gas, someone dies.

Fire extinguishers are just as good for putting out horny mexican convicts as they are small office fires.

1. If the earth is in danger and the President wants all available hands to address the situation, only send one confused scientist from the JPL to assist the effort.
2. Meteors can be shot down with hand-held surface-to-air missiles
3. If you are the only one with data to save the earth, stand in front of a moving vehicle and get killed so that your brainless assistant can bungle the task.
4. If you are in Mexico with equipment that can track objects in space, and you need to send that telemetry data to the JPL or everyone on earth will die, get in your car and drive to where there is no cellular connectivity.
5. If you and your partner want to rape a woman, have your partner leave the room and then act like a scared teenager until something distracts you, then crouch with your hands over your head long enough for the intended victim to beat your brains out with a fire extinguisher that is mounted on the wall on the other side of the room.
6. If you steal a police car, leave a firearm on the front seat and hope that the border officials will understand.
7. If a crazed hillbilly puts a gun to your head, be sure to pause to look at meteors out of the window, and then talk to him calmly until he puts the gun down and transforms into a caring humanitarian.
8. If a woman begs you to not steal her car because she has children, allow her to drive you until the car runs out of gas, and then strangle her to death.
9. You can’t launch nuclear missiles without first slowly counting down from 10 to zero.
10. A sip of coffee will reveal flaws in complicated algorithms.
11. Planet-killer meteors only head towards the USA, never to any other countries… thus eliminating the need for any other countries to cooperate in saving the earth.

Dwacon
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If you are a brilliant but eccentric scientist, no one will believe you and people will ridicule you...until they discover too late that you were right all along!

This is being a little more specific:
you can shoot down a meteor moving at anywhere from 45,000 MILES per hour (12.5 or so miles per second) to 100,000mph (27.7 miles per second) with a stinger missile that has a range of 3 miles and travels at a speed of 750 METERS per second. Essentially from the moment it enters your range you have 0.1 to 0.24 seconds to shoot it out of the sky.(for every one foot the stinger travels to the target,the target travels 27 feet. this is at the low range speed of 45,000)

Also an air burst of a meteor traveling at that speed has no affect on the city below. So that whole Tunguska Event where they believe a meteor roughly 30 meters in diameter detonating 3 to 6 miles ABOVE the ground with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs and leveling 830 square miles of forest? that clearly wasn't a meteorite.

If you break a massive asteroid in half with a comet both pieces will fall exactly in the same direction towards earth, only one will happen to be very gentlemanly and let the other chunk precede directly before it.

LOL! I was truly annoyed by the SECOND car running out of gas!

Good stuff. Here are a few more:

1. Apparently, "harbingers" from the killer meteor can wipe out all our moon landing stuff. This despite the fact that the moon landings happened on the side of the moon that ALWAYS faces us. So the face of the moon (and all moon landing equipment left behind) would not be in the direct path of any supposed debris.

2. Shoulder fired RPG: Top speed of I'd guess a few hundred MPH. Meteor fragment from space: Average speeds of 25,000 - 30,000MPG. Yeah, no chance of hitting one with the other.

3. You can just shoot all the nukes up meet the asteroid and they will all explode and that will take care of that. I said...THAT WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT!

4. Once that woman scientist found Jacob Carter/Selmak, she should have asked him to contact the Tok'Ra for assistance. They are our allies now.

5. I have no idea what kind of "calculations" they were doing, but it doesn't look like anything NASA uses to compute these sorts of things.

Great flick!

1) A person can easily and without any emotional breakdown shoot a guy in the chest. The writers never explain or provide a lead in to her non-emotional gun toting skills.

2) A meteor shower somehow causes multiple other horrible non-related events to occur to the same people.

3) If you are the hero or heroine and discover a new plot twist and you are the only person to know this new plot twist something horrible will happen to you.

4) Sitting under a bridge in a meteor shower in the middle of nowhere will, after discovering something earth shattering, automatically have the stars align to create some bad event which will be a massive gas truck with no breaks hurling toward your location.

5) In the end, the crazy scientist wasn't redeemed b/c he still was wrong about the meteor's mass.

6) If you are the husband of a doctor at the local hospital (and yes, the actor is from Jericho and he played a similar role - wife was a doctor and his house destroyed) and come upon the scene of the hospital's destruction instead of asking emergency workers if your wife and son are still in the building...you immediately rush into the building and have a nervous break down or become Superman.

7) Your rugged laptop still works after being thrown around and although there's no satellite uplink (since the "harbingers" destroyed most of them on the US side) for some reason the landline internet also doesn't work but the regular phone lines do.

8) The writers of this movie believe that US military generals are more interested in saving the lives of a few thousand people then saving the ENTIRE PLANET. Anyone taking bets that part II on Sunday will have the US military under-stockpiled with nukes because of THAT decision.

9) Every bad ass/bad attitude killer cop needs a motor cycle.

10) Boyfriends in red sports cars are only interested in one thing and are jerks.

11) Bullies on school buses have the worse karma.

12) It's more important to show a great actor (Christopher Lloyd) perform his craft with excellence in the first 6-10 minutes of the movie then write a good plot for the rest of the movie in which he is no longer alive.

13) Having name actors in your movie is more important then giving them great dialogue or the room to showcase their skills: Ernie Hudson and Carmen Argenziano...for example. Although Ernie was given slightly better dialogue then Carmen whose border officer character comes off as idiotic.

14) If you're beautiful, it's the end of the world and you have to walk miles to the shelter in the next town...you'll just happen to have a cabin with a hot tub available to stop at on the way there.

15) You're the writer or director of summer disaster flick and you honestly believe that the location detector between every set of scenes isn't annoying.