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Nuclear bomb could save Earth from asteroid
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- This will cause ROCK RAIN and can be surely less damaging but still very much scare humanity. Good news we can use ATOM BOMBS for outside threats then on earth...surely a pieceful demo of ATOM BOMBS should be used..
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- Yes, a nuclear bomb would indeed be a very efficient method of diverting a close asteroid. Even if the rocks continued on their course towards Earth, they would all be smaller in size and would burn up quicker on entry into the Earth's atmosphere. What we need to do now is test this on a real asteroid to see if it actually disrupts the rocks enough in the asteroid to accomplish our intentions. This finally could be a practical use for such a weapon.
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- Yes, a nuclear bomb would indeed be a very efficient method of diverting a close asteroid. Even if the rocks continued on their course towards Earth, they would all be smaller in size and would burn up quicker on entry into the Earth's atmosphere. What we need to do now is test this on a real asteroid to see if it actually disrupts the rocks enough in the asteroid to accomplish our intentions. This finally could be a practical use for such a weapon.
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- Sounds like the dawn spacecraft might already be doing the space tug.Is vesta on coarse with Earth?
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- What if something goes wrong with the nuclear devise prior to hitting the asteroid? We're still going to be toast!
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- Look ahead 20 years, what's worth saving?
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- The nuclear bomb option is science fiction, because in space, there is no matter for the explosive force to tamp against and divert the path of the asteroid.
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- The nuclear bomb will be pushing against the asteroid... Energy is released in all directions which will push anything with mass. If want to know where the energy comes from, its a nuclear explosion. It comes from splitting atoms which is described in e=mc^2, which basically states that mass is made of energy and vice versa.
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- The 'short-bus' school of physics is heard from.
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- "The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood." Revelation 8:8. Hmm...I wonder...does that verse refer to an asteroid striking the Earth? Maybe, maybe not. It's an interesting thought though. 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water and 30 percent by land. I suppose the possibility of an asteroid hitting the ocean would be greater. "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be." Matthew 24:21. Just a thought, for what it's worth.
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- It means nothing, for those writing the Bible were ordinary men who were trying to sell their religion with imaginary prose. It's just a made up story.
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- They should wait and see where the projected landing zone would be. If it's Texas or the Middle East, let it land
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