threelonmusketeers to [email protected]English • 11 hours agoDon’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-linkDon’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032arstechnica.comthreelonmusketeers to [email protected]English • 11 hours agomessage-square36fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•edit-26 hours agoCan we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher? Wait, we could just detonate all those huge nukes right now. Show that stupid asteroid.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni 🇺🇸linkfedilink3•3 hours agoNuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•22 minutes agoWouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?
Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?
Wait, we could just detonate all those huge nukes right now. Show that stupid asteroid.
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?