Michael Bay Foiled by Science!
2008-08-27 10:30:05 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Bay's 1998 actioner Armageddon but ultimately rejected as less practical than rocketing Ben Affleck into space with a nuclear warhead
In the movie, scientists tell Billy Bob Thornton (who played the head of NASA), "We want to land a craft, deploy solar sails. You'll have a great big canopy. Solar winds will be caught by these Mylar sails!" To...
