Nuclear bomb could save Earth from asteroid

Subject: Nuclear bomb could save Earth from asteroid Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:59 pm

Quote :: A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid hurtling toward Earth, just like in the movies, a new study suggests.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility in New Mexico, used a supercomputer to model nukes' anti-asteroid effectiveness. They attacked a 1,650-foot-long (500-meter) space rock with a 1-megaton nuclear weapon - about 50 times more powerful than the U.S. blast inflicted on Nagasaki, Japan, to help end World War II.

DeathBlooms wrote:

Quote :: A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid hurtling toward Earth, just like in the movies, a new study suggests.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility in New Mexico, used a supercomputer to model nukes' anti-asteroid effectiveness. They attacked a 1,650-foot-long (500-meter) space rock with a 1-megaton nuclear weapon - about 50 times more powerful than the U.S. blast inflicted on Nagasaki, Japan, to help end World War II.

My internets real slow at the mo, so i didnt read the article. But yes, a nuke is probably the only hope - at this stage. But what if the 'stroid' [i just coined that term now Wink

] is like 2 or 3 miles across? Also they say depending on the asteroids composition it could just absorb the blast, BUT, I think man will suss it out in the end. Go scientists!
*I'll check that article out later for sure.

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