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No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid
- dalke 14y agoThat specifically analyzes the asteroid and circumstances in "Armageddon", starring Bruce Willis. It does not apply to all incoming asteroids.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoAlso, in general it'd be much more efficient (though not as cinematically impressive) to just nudge the asteroid off course rather than blowing it to tiny pieces, particularly if you could get to it in time. A relatively small nudge would make it miss if you had enough time for the vector change to operate. Nudging rather than blowing up would also have the advantage of not leaving you with a zillion pieces on unpredictable and uncontrollable courses.