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Experimental Proof That We Could Nuke a Dinosaur Killer Asteroid After All

2024-10-03 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@Zemaj 2024-10-04

Purely by chance, on 9 July 1962 I witnessed the Starfish Prime nuclear space explosion as a nine-year-old from Aotearoa New Zealand way ‘down-under’ in the Southern Hemisphere. It was one of the most awe-inspiring events of my life.

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@reganhoward7883 2024-10-04

The approach talked about here was brought up at the Planetary Defense Conference held in Vail, CO in 2006. I’m sure it was floating around before that. It’s nice to see public experimental evidence that the approach could work.

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@Gruntsworth 2024-10-04

3:09 "Another team proposed sending a swarm of flying squirrels to overwhelm the asteroid."

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@AgentLeon 2024-10-04

Anton: treaty forbids use of nukes in space. Everybody: hahahahhahhaha, LOL, treaty....

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@n3v3r1s4 2024-10-03

"Simulation of asteroid deflection with a megajoule-class X-ray pulse" well, that's a really cool study title =P

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@joemcintyre2090 2024-10-04

They did some very crazy nuclear testing back in the day.

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@AceSpadeTheCinderace 2024-10-04

Somewhere, Micheal Bay just jumped up out of bed and exclaimed "I smell sequel money!"

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@stoborking 2024-10-03

So the dinosaur died due to a skill issue

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@moodswinggaming2972 2024-10-03

If we launched several nukes, with a batch that hit it directly at the same time and another batch that detonate between us and the object just after you could program a strike where the secondary nuclear explosions serve to deflect the pieces after the initial strike breaks the object up.

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@ericsmith6394 2024-10-04

Your chances of being killed by a giant rock ducky bath toy from space are low...but never zero.

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