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Send a second bomb into the cloud shortly after, ignite and disperse it from within. Poof!
by LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
Send a second bomb into the cloud shortly after, ignite and disperse it from within. Poof!
- dredmorbius 5y agoEffectively, yes. Though the point remains that what you've got to do is avoid impacting the asteroid entirely, whether it's a single solid core or a dispersed dust-cloud. Or more precisely, the total delivered energy has to be considered and kept to a survivable maximum. That said, I'm now wondering what it would look like to suddenly have a sub-lethal dust-cloud impact Earth. I imagine there'd be an initial few stray shooting stars, then a rapidly-growing glow as the dust struck the atmosphere. Hrm...