Spoliers.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Meteor
JSouth1 — 10 years ago(September 07, 2015 10:14 AM)
Spoliers.
As the nuclear missiles are approaching the asteroidthey seem to make the WHOLE distance of over 2 hours of flightburning their engines !! There appears to be NO staging of the missiles and they arrive to the asteroid INTACT !!
A NOVICE interest in science KNOWS that large missiles do NOT stay intact to their target. They have several 'stages", which "fall away" as their fuel is consumed and they burn out. By the time they made it to the asteroidthere would ONLY be the warhead sectionsince all of the acceleration needed would have already been done before.
Among the MANY errors of tihs filmthis is a BIG oneand I am QUITE surprised the writers would have though it through a bit more. -
ryan-anderson — 10 years ago(September 09, 2015 02:40 PM)
As the nuclear missiles are approaching the asteroidthey seem to make the WHOLE distance of over 2 hours of flightburning their engines !! There appears to be NO staging of the missiles and they arrive to the asteroid INTACT !!
Yeah, I thought of that once myself. Perhaps because Hercules was originally intended to intercept a meteor, it's "rocket" stage was designed to last longer.maybe even the whole way (for the purposes of course correction perhaps?).
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