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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:44:52 PM EDT
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Oh, I think a medium sized nuke, say a 200 kt, could hurt an asteroid if we could put it on target. The problem is any type of kinetic treatment might just break the thing up into still nasty pieces.
See "Lucifer's Hammer". eta : I think early detection and then some way to apply an effective nudge from the orbital path is the way to go. |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:46:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:46:50 PM EDT
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The energy in any large meteor might just eat that nuke up and keep on rolling. The best way would be to gently alter it's course when it is months or years away way out in space. Technology we don't have at the current time.
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:49:56 PM EDT
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The energy in any large meteor might just eat that nuke up and keep on rolling. The best way would be to gently alter it's course when it is months or years away way out in space. Technology we don't have at the current time. And will never have as long as FBHO continues to gut NASA. |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:51:05 PM EDT
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see this shit ?
http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ eta: This little meteor was point man for the big one later... |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:09:03 PM EDT
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The energy of a nuke wouldn't make much difference. A nice big piece of stone or metal would make it kaboom nicely. As others have said, shrapnel might be a problem, although I'm not so sure.
ETA: Nuke is a bad solution, as you could not detonate it at the right place. An inbound meteor would see a nuke as a nasty fart. Throw rocks. |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:16:34 PM EDT
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Meteor damage, i beleive...
Ivan managed an intercept with russian technology? Sounds like bullshit.. |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:18:06 PM EDT
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see this shit ? http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ eta: This little meteor was point man for the big one later... That's the event the thread is about. |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:21:08 PM EDT
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It would depend on the size of the rock. The small ones that aren't worth the effort could be destroyed.
The hundred or so feet across ones, could probably be fragmented, Damage would be lessened but spread over thousands of sites instead of one. The giant ones that change the course of life on Earth, well a nuke would be like trying to stop a freight train with a .45 |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:23:36 PM EDT
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Oh, I think a medium sized nuke, say a 200 kt, could hurt an asteroid if we could put it on target. The problem is any type of kinetic treatment might just break the thing up into still nasty pieces. See "Lucifer's Hammer". eta : I think early detection and then some way to apply an effective nudge from the orbital path is the way to go. Some ex NASA astronaut has a non profit? organization trying to get funding to put up a detection sat and has some ideas on how to defeat threats, forgot his name. |
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:24:16 PM EDT
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see this shit ? http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ eta: This little meteor was point man for the big one later... That's the event the thread is about. That's how the movie started 
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:38:40 PM EDT
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It really matters whether the meteor is a giant hunk of metal vs. stone/ice. If it's metal, there's not any really effective solution within the grasp of our tech.
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Posted: 2/14/2013 11:39:22 PM EDT
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It really matters whether the meteor is a giant hunk of metal vs. stone/ice. If it's metal, there's not any really effective solution within the grasp of our tech. Sure there is, hit the fucker with the Earth!!! 
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