Near miss asteroid...a very near miss.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I think that's the one where the U.S. decides to selectively save certain people from death when the comet strikes. Only young people are allowed to hide underground. I think that's another Bruce Willis one!

ETA: spoke too soon, no Bruce in this one.

Ah! I remember that movie.

These movie references remind me of one of my fav Twilight Zone episodes in the 80s. It's the one where Earthlings thought that the Earth is under attack by some aliens. The POTUS or whatever decides that we should go ahead and launch the missiles at the alien targets. Then the aliens start to kick our asses. At the end, the alien language was translated and the aliens were actually saying they wanted to be our friends. We made them kick our asses because we attacked first. FML.