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That would be quite a feat.
by anovaskulk 17y ago
That would be quite a feat.
- noss 17y agoIt would be quite a weapon too!
- coderdude 17y agoAgainst yourself?
- antipaganda 17y agoIt's only 350 metres wide. That'd be enough to seriously fuck up any large country on Earth without causing much damage, relatively, to other parts of the world. Anyway, you could keep the equipment on the rock, keep Apophis skimming Earth nice and close every few years, and have a permanent very big deterrent.
- rbanffy 17y agoThe deterrent wouldn't work. It would take ages to direct it to any target, but a much smaller time to neutralize it with a bomb.
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- rbanffy 17y agoApophis is big enough to wipe out a large metropolitan area, but not much more than that, with plenty time to evacuate. It could, however, excavate quite a crater that could become a very large water reservoir. But I would prefer to do such major construction projects with nukes - the delivery time and positioning are much more controllable. Also, we have a whole lot of them sitting around and the freedom to use larger formats (they wouldn't have to ride on planes or missiles) could yield much cleaner ones too. I suppose governments won't like the idea of civilians operating gigaton+ nukes, but that's something to be resolved between politicians and lobbyists.
- chaosmachine 17y agoI wonder how large an impact would be required to alter the earth's rate of rotation. I think we could all use a slightly longer day ;)
- rbanffy 17y agoYou could do that with a lot of smaller impacts. Also, it would be advisable to hit all major plates equally, to reduce the risk of major quakes on fault lines. If we were going to try to do it in one impact, we'd better evacuate the planet before too. And have no plans to return in less than a couple hundred years.
- dirtbox 17y agoIn Soviet Russia asteroid saves world from you.
- bioweek 17y agoI wonder if that strategy was considered during the cold war? I wouldn't be surprised.