Divine Wind
Platinum Member
Agreed, given that we could shatter it in the first place. Even a nuke might just bounce off with an relatively unpredictable change of course.blowing up a big one just means you are gonna be hit by the smaller bits....neither a good scenario
FYI, "The Rock" is 6-10 times the size in this scenario:
NASA’s plan for when the next asteroid strikes Earth
A 120-meter silicon rock hitting Los Angeles between 18 and 19 km per second would explode with more than 600 times the energy of the nuclear bomb America dropped on Hiroshima, assuming a typical impact angle and consistent surface composition where it lands. It would also leave a crater a mile wide, according to an online simulation program by Imperial College London and Purdue University.
The entire urban center of Los Angeles would be obliterated, along with the port. The area would be unlivable for months, if not years. ”You’re not going to return to the way things were,” said Bout.
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