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You evacuate people in a big submarine, if you have to. It might not even be necessary, if the impact site is sufficiently far away or the settlement is deep en
by eudox 11y ago
You evacuate people in a big submarine, if you have to. It might not even be necessary, if the impact site is sufficiently far away or the settlement is deep enough.
But this is all a moot point, any realistic asteroid that threatens this planet can be blown to smithereens and will probably be spotted unless it's coming perpendicular to the ecliptic.
- rgawdzik 11y ago*citation needed for both being able to blow up an asteroid adequately, and to have a high probability to spot them. At least from my childhood on discovery channel, both are nearly impossible (With respect to seeing the asteroid, it would be too late to make a difference)
- eudox 11y agoYou fly some nukes into it. Usually, at this point someone links to some NDT interview with Jon Stewart or something where he says "but if you blow up an asteroid, the chunks will still hit you". Yes, well, if you blow up an asteroid the ratio of surface area to volume will change, and a greater percentage of the asteroid's mass will be