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"Meteorites"

Meteorite-list,
 
  I hope none of you had the (mis)fortune of seeing USA Network's made
for TV movie "Meteorites". The technical inaccuracies were terrible!
First, a comet collided with an asteroid, sending on a collision with a
little hick town here on Earth. Second, meteorites fall everywhere and
blow stuff up. The end result is like Days of Our Lives meets Buck
Rodgers--a soap opera with a cheap "space" title tagged on, and a
technical advisor currently in third grade. The plot is virtually
non-existant. 

In one scene, a bystander is standing on a sidewalk at a Hicksville UFO 
fair/tabloid convention, and gets struck by a meteorite. The stone never 
even makes a dent in the sidewalk, but nothing is left of the poor guy
but his pair of shoes, with smoke coming out of them! Either that was
the stupidest movie scene I've ever heard of, or these meteorites are
made of anti-matter! Somebody forgot to tell the script writers that
contact with meteorites does not mean instant vaporization, unless a
huge crater is produced. I doubt there  could be a pair of shoes to
smoke! If the producers even interviewed any scientists for their film,
they obviously didn't take notes.

In another scene, two guys are driving in a truck when two (blindingly 
bright) meteorites just happen to strike on opposite sides of the truck 
simultaneously. Neither of the occupants are seriously harmed. (In fact,
the crater on the right appears to have been a processed aerial photo of
Canyon Diablo, sized down to about a ten-foot diameter.)


In short, this movie makes NBC's "Asteroid" look like a documentary. 
In case somebody reading this helped write the script, I suggest you
wear a paper bag on your head.