Train Oil Drillers to Become Astronauts

The plan was to train oil drillers to become astronauts so they could land on an asteroid, drill into it and detonate a nuclear weapon. One of the basic problems of that plot is that it makes wegh more sense to teach astronauts how to use a drill than to trainOil Drillers to become astronots in a week. Which was actually a point that was made by ben afleck onset. So afle recalls he asked, why is it easier to train oil drilleders to become Astronauts than train astos to become oil drillers? And he then recalls, they told him to shut the fuck up.