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The militaristic implications of asteroid deflection.
Posted on 10/2/22 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 10/2/22 at 1:22 pm
Not to go full Klandathu, but should we be looking into ways of manipulating asteroid trajectories to fall on our enemies?
Edit: I actually think manipulating an asteroid to impact Mars would be a cool experiment to perform if only to test the K-T impact hypothesis on real-life scale.
Edit: I actually think manipulating an asteroid to impact Mars would be a cool experiment to perform if only to test the K-T impact hypothesis on real-life scale.
This post was edited on 10/2/22 at 1:35 pm
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Posted on 10/2/22 at 1:56 pm to UndercoverBryologist
What are risks not worth taking? For 100, Alex.
Posted on 10/2/22 at 2:01 pm to m2pro
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What are risks not worth taking? For 100, Alex.
You know China and Russia are thinking about such a weapon. I'd rather we develop it first than let them get there first.
Posted on 10/2/22 at 3:34 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Asteroid impacts are way too strong to be used that way. It could cause an extinction event.
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was estimated to be a ~100 million megaton blast. It rose the global temperature to over 500° F.
The largest bomb ever detonated, Tsar Bomba, was 50 megatons..
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was estimated to be a ~100 million megaton blast. It rose the global temperature to over 500° F.
The largest bomb ever detonated, Tsar Bomba, was 50 megatons..
Posted on 10/2/22 at 3:36 pm to UndercoverBryologist
There is no way we could ever achieve that level of control. It would have to be a rocket that lands and does controlled thrusts, which may never be powerful enough to move an asteroid of sufficient size.
Posted on 10/2/22 at 3:36 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Impossible to control the landing spot with that level of precision.
Posted on 10/2/22 at 3:48 pm to Ben Hur
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was estimated to be a ~100 million megaton blast. It rose the global temperature to over 500° F.
The largest bomb ever detonated, Tsar Bomba, was 50 megatons..
The asteroid DART impacted was estimated to be the size of a football field.
Using an estimate of 100 meters in diameter, if you use the Impact Calculator Website website, plugging in the most extreme parameters into the program (90 degree trajectory angle, 20 km/s, density of iron), you get 9.24 x 10^17 Joules of energy. Which equals 2.21 gigatons of energy.
If it's the opposite side of the Earth, the US would survive. At most, we would experience a collective worldwide earthquake of 6.0 on the Richter scale.
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