Spoiler alert! In Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, Earth gets destroyed by Comet Dibiasky and everyone is killed but the villains.
Also in the movie, two Michigan State University astronomers — PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and professor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) — upon discovering the “planet-killing” comet try to rally public, political, and scientific opinion in support of a Nasa/global mission to deflect the space rock. On the other hand, US President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) and the billionaire chief executive of tech company BASH, Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance), decry alarmism and advocate mining it for trillions of dollars worth
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