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For those missing the reference: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck Ben Affleck, talking to Michael Bay about
by komali2 8y ago
For those missing the reference: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck
Ben Affleck, talking to Michael Bay about the movie Armageddon, in which oil drillers are sent to an asteroid to drill a hole in it, drop a nuclear bomb into the hole, and then detonate that bomb:
>I asked Michael (Bay) why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers. He told me to shut the fuck up
- rsync 8y agoIt really is worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U
- bhhaskin 8y agoThanks for sharing! It was pretty good.
- trainingaccount 8y agoActually for Apollo 17 it was found to be easier to train a geologist to be an astronaut than the other way around.
- psergeant 8y agoI guess as long as a high enough percentage of the crew are flight people, you can teach someone else to not get in the way too much?
- manicdee 8y agoOr it turns out that 20 years if field experience is harder to teach than 5 years experience in wearing pressure suits and zero/low gravity.
- rory096 8y agoThe Apollo astronauts were also trained quite extensively in geology. Highly recommend the Apollo 12 episode of From the Earth to the Moon for a great look at that.