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Meteor
1979 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Ronald Neame
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe that will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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There's no authoritatively correct reference for what "slow" or "fast" should mean in extraterrestrial contexts, however, I think it makes sense to look at it like this:
Suppose you are watching a movie or a video of a meteor hitting Earth, with the whole globe on screen.
The diameter of the Earth is almost 13,000 km. So a meteor(oid) going even 70 km/s is going to take 3 minutes to hit from one diameter away.
It should look like it's barely moving.
Let's make a movie, call it "Meteor" and we can have Jodi Foster star.
Ditto. I asked for movies like wargames, military, strategic, nuclear, and it was way off. It gave me movies like Meteor. I was expecting things like By The Dawns Early Light, Threads maybe, things like that.
Sorry, complete miss.