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Can we shoot down distant asteroids with a missile?
by sbmthakur 7y ago
Can we shoot down distant asteroids with a missile?
- ben_w 7y agoNo, for much the same reasons that you can’t shoot down an incoming KE shell fired at you from the main gun of a tank on a ridge half a mile above you with a bang-snap you fire from a child’s elastic catapult. Sure, technically asteroids come in many sizes, but for dangerous ones you are talking about shooting a thing the size of a mountain that is falling towards you in a way that makes it stop falling towards you.