Earth should have been fine. PLOT HOLE
Near the end of the movie they say that the meteor will arrive a week early.
Pretty much means it's going to miss us. How the hell does the meteor still hit us?
Learn to science, hollywood.
It's a MOVIE.........
shareSo true. It's really not a plot hole, though. There was something included in the film about how the government may have intentionally given the wrong date (we can presume various reasons the government would do that). So if they knew the correct date all along and knew for sure that the asteroid was on a direct course to hit Earth, then Earth would not have been fine.
People here say that the government wouldn't be able to fool everyone and that there would have been others out there trying to notify people of the real date of impact. This is completely true, however since forms of communication were already breaking down and since we're only seeing one local TV news broadcast and hearing news reports on one radio station, there's no way for us to say that there weren't people out there trying to notify the world of the correct impact date.
Not a plot hole in the slightest. It even says at the bottom of the newscast "Conspiracy Theorists: The Government Knew!".
It's entirely plausible the government withheld the true impact date to prevent too much violence from happening, as the worst of it would probably be right before contact.
It's funny how the OP and most people on this board missed the ENTIRE point of this film. Idiots.
shareIt's funny how the OP and most people on this board missed the ENTIRE point of this film. Idiots.
It's not a matter of "missing the point", it's a matter of knowing physics well enough that that kind of error jumps up and hits you in the face or not knowing physics that well.
For those who are on about how the government could easily cover it up, most asteroids are discovered by amateur astronomers who do not work for or receive any support from the government. As asteroids go, 75 mile diameter is huge--out of the more than 20 million asteroids, fewer than 200 are larger than that size.
For those who are on about how the stupid scientists can't calculate trajectories, remember that we have been using the exact same math to deliver payloads to other planets for decades. Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter right on schedule. Off by a second or two maybe, off by a week at two weeks to impact, no. For those who are on about "dim objects", once it's determined that it's going to hit, every effing telescope in the world is going to be pointed at it, including the Hale, the Hubble, the Keck, the VLT, and all the other glass monsters. And every radiotelescope in the world is going to be bouncing radar off it--Arecibo, the VLA, and all the rest of those. Its trajectory is going to be one of the most precisely known quantities in history.
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