We just need to ban asteroids.
How could it be worse than the single large one?
How can this be arranged? :hmm:We'll have to get Boomer out of there...but that's probably about it
We just need to ban asteroids.
No matter how much notice we had, a asteroid 6 miles in length landing anywhere on the planet would wipe us out. Approx one hundred trillion tons of dirt and rock would be hurled into the atmosphere and entomb the earth in a dark, cold hell. Odds are it would land in the ocean, causing massive global tsunami's.
No amount of nukes could stop it, we would actually make it worse by breaking it up into multiple objects instead of just one.
We don't have the ability to stop this. Imagine 10-20 thousand nuclear weapons all going off at once. The best we could do would to push it off course, but then it may smash into the moon or the sun.
Even if DA14 hit California for example which is the length of 3 tractor trailers, would wipe out most of the state and cause massive earthquakes.
I strongly disagree. 6 miles is nothing. That is actually a small corn field in most Midwestern states. The damage it did would be dependent on it's velocity. I am pretty sure our atmosphere would slow it a bit. But breaking it into smaller parts would slow the velocity as well. AND, many of the pieces would be sent off course in other directions.
Not to mention if it landed in the ocean, that is like throwing the biggest rock you can carry into a pond. There might be some tsunami like conditions if it hits close to a shoreline, but the thing would virtually disappear in the middle of the ocean. You are talking about a rock less than 1/1000000th the size of the Atlantic Ocean.
The damage would be greatly less.
Breaking it into pieces is the last thing you'd want to do. The goal would be to alter its course.
Yep, a nudge so it'll miss earth. If that fails nudge it so it'll miss the US and hit somebody else...like north Korea.
I strongly disagree. 6 miles is nothing.
You do know that the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was roughly 6 miles wide and also impacted in the ocean? The crater from impact was 180km in diameter. I think you haven't wrapped your head around the power something that massive moving at 30km a second is.
We don't have the ability to stop this. Imagine 10-20 thousand nuclear weapons all going off at once. The best we could do would to push it off course, but then it may smash into the moon or the sun.
The big variables are, how much time do we have to deflect it?, what is it made of?, if impact is years away a small deflection is enough, land a small booster stage on it and light it, pushing it off course but this won't work on an asteroid that's barely held together bunch of rocks or made of ice..
We make it sound so easy. Just land a booster on it and make it go away.
It's a floating mountain moving at 18 miles a second. How these scientists come up with the calculations to even get a rocket on there would probably make my friggin head explode.
nuking it would be worst since it will scatter into small pieces and spread all over the earth and cause more damage. They should nuke with a custom made super mega glue specially made by scientist and nuke it at the meteor which wraps the whole meteor with its super mega sticky goo-like gum that when it impact..... It will reduce the damage and keeps the pieces together from spreading.
nuking it would be worst since it will scatter into small pieces and spread all over the earth and cause more damage. they should nuke with a custom made super mega glue specially made by scientist and nuke it at the meteor which wraps the whole meteor with its super mega sticky goo-like gum that when it impact..... it will reduce the damage and keeps the pieces together from spreading.
Breaking it into pieces is the last thing you'd want to do. The goal would be to alter its course.