day state, with the Gulf of  Mexico, Cuba, etc. In fact it is believed that the Gulf was created  when this particular asteroid hit the Earth. To put this into  further perspective, North America was at that time still part of a  supercontinent now known as Laurasia, which connected it to Europe  and Asia. And the globe in the first scene of Armageddon shows North  and South America linked to each other, something that wasnt so 65  million years ago.