Also of course I’d expect it to make some difference what proportion of the mass burns up in the upper atmosphere, lower atmosphere, or strikes the land or sea.
Which is not to say that millions of particles burning up within a short timespan is not going to cause big problems. But some effects like tsunamis and the nuclear winter may be vastly reduced.
Also, it is (some) asteroids that have that huge amount of precious metals and rare earths. Comets have far less, being largely ices.
I watched it again with my wife and actually found it better on the second viewing (I wouldn’t say I found it “bad” in the first place). But I will stand by my original statements that it was a bit tonally inconsistent and much of it felt like it was lifted directly from other movies.
I thought y’all might find this AP story relevant:
Having control over supply isn’t the same thing as having an increase in supply.
See: the diamond market, (or … the US invasion of Iraq – oil).
If the market isn’t actually free …
Just watched this the other night. It was ok. My only real belly laugh was Ron Perlmans racist speech as he was launching. Something about all the hard working white people and the gays etc… lol.
The force doesn’t matter so much - break it up small enough and it will all vaporize before reaching the surface of the Earth.
The problem is, is still has all the energy.
Here’s a cite that a 1-km asteroid wold have an impact energy of about 6.6 x 10^21 J.
The Earth’s atmosphere has a mass of about 5.1480 × 10^18 kg (easy to google) and the heat capacity of air is about 700 J/kg. Do the math, and you find that the energy of the above asteroid is enough to raise the temperature of the entire atmosphere by about 2 degrees C.
So that’s close to the worst case scenario for global warming over the next few decades, in a matter of minutes.
And the comet in this movie was bigger than that.
So, we’d still be in a mess, just a different one.
Overall, I think most of the criticism is pretty fair, and I thought it was at best kind of OK. But this, I think, needs to be emphasized more: Dr: Mindy escaped the prediction of BASH’s algorithms by showing some character growth, finding value in real human connection, and renouncing the selfish temptation of techno-salvation—hence, not behaving in a way that jibes with the lowest-common-denominator sort of prediction models. President Orleans, on the other hand, doubles down on her selfishness, greed, and disregard for others, to the point that she forgets her own son, hence having the (outrageously implausible) prediction come true.
Saying that someone is likely to die alone is a plausible predictive model. Saying that someone is going to be killed by a very specific (but unknown at the time) animal species, on the other hand, is strong evidence that one of the script writers has read Machine of Death.
I thought it was very amusing, thought-provoking and in some places quite moving.
I think it helps to take it at face value - an Armageddon/Deep Impact-scenario disaster movie with lashings of satire, rather than by judging whether it’s an accurate allegory for COVID or Climate Change.
Just Leo and J-Law’s frustrations at being surrounded by self-absorbed, perpetually-distracted cretins made it worth watching for me.
I kinda liked it. I watched it in the spirit of letting the story be the story, and letting the vaguely familiar characters be funny coincidences. From that perspective, it didn’t suck. Jonah did his best Jonah, Streep was exquisitely Streep, and Leo did an amazing Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. It was fun, and the ending was delightfully on-the-nose in the way it supported the merits of disregarding reality as the world crumbles around you, if doing so makes you happier than facing the ugly truth. I’ve always been the one to not suffer reality deniers because I couldn’t conceive of a headspace that would make it a reasonable path, but I might just lighten up now. Maybe. For a bit.
But doesn’t TFG have one of those, too?
You mean the tramp stamp we see on Orlean in the credits scene? 
Oh, you’re talking about the picture with Clinton. My bad. Carry on.
I want the hours back that I spent watching this. Cool that two of the main characters were from Michigan State, uncool that no footage was actually shot here. The Don’t Look Up crowd was clearly a takeoff on the MAGAbots, but unrealistic in that they actually turned on the speaker at the rally when they used their own eyes. True cultists would not trust anything but their Dear Leader. Not a Meryl Streep fan but she does play one unholy bitch really well. DiCaprio did a great job too. Would have been a decent movie had they been a little more economical in the plot and avoided the silly affair between the professor and the tv lady.
Just watched this film. No, it wasn’t about Covid, and wasn’t about climate change. Those are too concrete and specific. It was about the one characteristic of the Washington crowd of both parties, especially of Trump: the stubborn refusal to acknowledge objective reality and to ignore obvious facts.
I didn’t like the comedic parts, but I think they were an attempt to make the film less preachy. If that’s the case, it didn’t work.
At the end, I truly didn’t care whether or not anyone survived. I was rooting for the Brontorac.
I could totally see something like this happening, and Trump and his cronies’ main concern would be how they could use it for their own political advantage, not how it could be mitigated, and so forth.
And that was what chilled me the most- the idea that NASA and the scientific community could actually DO something about it, but that TPTB would disregard it because it’s not politically convenient at that point, or because they’re too ignorant to understand, and by the time they get around to it, it could be too late.
I kind of think that they got the morning show people a bit wrong; what they’d get would be a lot of insincere concern and tongue-clicking while on the show, and then no follow-up. It would have been Dr. Mindy & Kate Dibiasky in the serious part, followed instantly by Selena Gomez (can’t recall her character’s name), and they’d react to whatever her thing was with giddy intensity, like the previous segment had never happened, which really diminishes the impact of the Armageddon segment. That would be how the popular news would go about it in general; it would be front page/leading news for a week or so, and then be pushed into the background when the next shocking news rolls around, just like the Chandra Levy story did in 2001.