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Wouldn't just doing the boom on surface made more sense ? Less energy wasted and possibly more directional blow if bomb landed in a crater.
by ilyt 4y ago
Wouldn't just doing the boom on surface made more sense ? Less energy wasted and possibly more directional blow if bomb landed in a crater.
- aaronblohowiak 4y agoThat can be harder to get to in a hurry than next to it
- nine_k 4y agoThe idea is to irradiate and evaporate a slightly larger area "below" the blast, so that more of the ejected matter had the impulse with the direction across the course, obstrucred by the asteroid on one side and thus not symmertical. (Much if the energy will anyway be wasted on beams / jets that are symmetrical and thus compensating each other.)
- ilyt 4y agoThat's why I mentioned dropping it in crater, to redirect part of it into desired direction