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Neither one should have saluted as they were indoors and uncovered (no hat). It could have just been considered a friendly "hello" to each other and not proper decorum.

Just because someone is a genius doesn't make them an expert in all fields. It's entirely possible that Quincey had no hand in the actual construction of the drill. So if he didn't put it together, he wouldn't know what went together wrong.

No. Karl is a retired naval officer. He is shown to be living in a trailer with his wife, parked next to the observatory. So he likely works there as a part time job.

He had a phone book with some of his retired navy contacts which put him in touch with the higher ups at NASA.

After he yells at his wife to go get his phone book: "Get the book! Get the book! Get the book!" Its likely he got up and got it himself, if she didn't bother getting it for him.

Although its needless to say that firing a shotgun on an operational oil rig puts more lives at risk than just A.J.'s... all that is clear, is that he points the shotgun slightly above and to the right of where A.J. is standing during the last two shots, and stops his assault as soon as A.J. is wounded by the ricochet.

If Harry had been angry enough to cause deliberate harm to A.J., Harry would have physically attacked him as soon as he discovered Grace in A.J.'s bed.

Harry's right hand man Chick seemed to know Harry was 'blowing off steam' while scaring A.J. -- That being said, someone like Chick wouldn't have allowed Harry to put others on the rig at risk.

An asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth. NASA puts together a team of oil drillers, lead by Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), considered to be the best deep core driller in the world, and plans to send them up to the asteroid in order to plant a nuclear warhead 800 feet deep inside of it. The hope is that the warhead will blow the asteroid into two pieces, both of which will safely fly past the earth.

Armageddon is based on a screenplay by American screenwriters Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, and Robert Pool. The movie was subsequently novelized as Armageddon (1998) by M. C. Bolin.

There is evidence that Earth was hit roughly 65 million years ago by a stellar object that was at least 6 miles wide. The impact location was in the Gulf of Mexico, just above the Yucatan peninsula (Chicxulub crater). This event would have caused giant tidal waves (tsunamis) and clouds of superheated vapor and dust, causing direct destruction. Moreover, the impact would have caused a chain reaction of global earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Indirect effects would be the mass production of carbon monoxide, causing a dramatic greenhouse effect, and the ejection of dust into the atmosphere, which would have seriously affected plantlife and the entire foodchain. This event is widely believed to be the cause of the massive extinction on Earth in that period. That said, not all life was obliterated; that is why we exist. There are, however, scientists who claim that the impact alone was not enough to create a total extinction. Some theories postulate that climate changes had already caused many species of dinosaurs to disappear, and that the meteor was yet another cause; other theories state that there were multiple impacts on other places and that the combined effect caused the extinction.

In real life, probably. However, in the film Harry explains that he has drilled all over the world for thirty years but still doesn't know everything. He calls drilling "an art", probably meaning that it is a profession that requires experience and instinct; not an exact science that can be simply taught in 12 days. Teaching drillers to be astronauts in 12 days would be easier, provided that they don't have to fly a shuttle or repair NASA machinery; they already have the physical build to survive the trip (at least most of them do), they are used to rough conditions, and they only need to learn to work in zero-g environments.

The song is titled "Leaving on a Jet Plane". It was written by John Denver in 1966 and recorded by various artists, including the Chad Mitchell Trio, Spanky and Our Gang, and Peter, Paul and Mary.

There's a bit of fleeting dialog when Stamper's roughnecks are going through their NASA training: Harry says that they have to "split the asteroid on the fault line", meaning that there was a gigantic geographical crack already present in the asteroid - it was likely discovered by NASA while they were monitoring the asteroid's approach. By drilling deep enough to expose or come within a short distance of the fault, the explosion would be sufficient enough to crack the asteroid the rest of the way. It's a quick moment in the film, easy to miss. There's also another quick, easy-to-miss moment when Harry is arguing with Col. Sharp over the activation of the nuclear bomb when Harry mentions the fault line again.

Only minor changes were made for the Director's Cut. The most striking scene is probably the one where Harry is visiting his father. There are also several other extensions and sometimes some lines of dialogue were added but overall these scenes aren't worth mentioning.

Yes, even though both the DVD and Blu-ray versions feature the theatrical cut of the movie and not the Director's Cut. There is a minor difference between these versions. A shot of the radio telescopes at the beginning has been replaced by another one.

Stanley Anderson, who plays the President in this film is also uncredited as the President in The Rock (1996), another Bay-Bruckheimer film. In both films, there is a scene where he stands in silhouette against a bright window while contemplating a decision that would doom the heroes. This has led many to believe that the two films are connected. However, other actors are in both films but play different roles, so a connection is unlikely.