Are you worried about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out mankind? You should be. Astrobiologists at Cardiff University suggest that the way our solar system keeps "bouncing" around, it's only a matter of time before a meteor shower rains on our parade. The good news is, if we do find ourselves under attack, Canada's got our back.

Hollywood's solution to an earthbound asteroid has always been the nuclear option -- blow it up before it hits the earth. Armageddon was directed by Michael Bay, after all. It might be entertaining but Intuitor's Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics gave the film a rating of XP (obviously physics from an unknown universe), and described it as "a feel-good movie with comic book physics that performs a serious public disservice by trivializing one of the worst long-term threats to human existence."

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