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Ben Affleck, talking to Michael Bay about the movie Armageddon, in which oil drillers are sent to an asteroid to drill a hole in it, drop a nuclear bomb into the hole, and then detonate that bomb:

>I asked Michael (Bay) why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers. He told me to shut the fuck up

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It really is worth your time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U

Thanks for sharing! It was pretty good.

Actually for Apollo 17 it was found to be easier to train a geologist to be an astronaut than the other way around.

I guess as long as a high enough percentage of the crew are flight people, you can teach someone else to not get in the way too much?

Or it turns out that 20 years if field experience is harder to teach than 5 years experience in wearing pressure suits and zero/low gravity.

The Apollo astronauts were also trained quite extensively in geology. Highly recommend the Apollo 12 episode of From the Earth to the Moon for a great look at that.

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