Why was it easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts

>implying nerds would ever learn how to drill oil like a man
kek step away sissy bitches while the jocks go to space

>>84778152
They didn't really train them to become astronauts. There were actual astronauts sent on the mission with the drillers. Harry's team was just given a crash course so they would be prepared to work on the asteroid.

Because it was just a very shit movie.

>>84778219
>Implying you're a man

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>>84778152
shut the fuck up

remember that part where the miles-long oil pipe bursts resulting in tons of oil being sprayed in all directions and all they needed to fix it was some shouting and 'elbow grease'

Actual astronauts flew the ships, not the drillers. Still, drilling on an asteroid is way different than drilling on Earth, with the lack of gravity and different rock composition. And if the pilots got killed, the drillers would be boned trying to fly the ships. So yeah, it would have been better to have astronauts trained to be drillers.

Why didn't they just not bother and let the cursed earth perish like it deserves?

I unironicly like this movie

>>84778152
>it's an "OP is 19 years too late to the party" epasode

love this shit

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>>84778152
>when MIT babbies can't even get your drill right