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Apophis destruction sim

What would happen if you stuck a 10 megaton thermonuclear bomb at the center of an asteroid that might otherwise collide with the Earth? A simulation run by Mark Boslough of Sandia National Labs.  
 
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thetrolone (2 days ago) Show Hide
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I say blow it up just as its getting close so we can have a decent meteor shower
dirtflinger113 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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nasa hopes by then they can make a sertain weapon to destroy it by the time it gets close they will probley evac people
cem719 (4 days ago) Show Hide
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we shdu make a nother tsar send it to apohis to fuck it up to peaces
polarhercules (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I think we should seriously start thinking about methods to devert such disasters from hapenning right now, so we will be better prepared when this does happen in the future to save the earth!!!
d3athbRinger (1 week ago) Show Hide
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they have and its not like itl end the world
Nuker1337 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Dude, the meteor is not that powerful, the impact energy is only about 500 megatons- about 9 times the largest nuclear detonation ever. The tsunami energy would be much less than the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. It would barely make it a mile on lowland areas. It could still ruin the lives of thousands of people, but hardly world ending.
Nuker1337 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Tsar Bomba was not the most efficcient design ever made, it was quickly put together in just a few months. Lawrence Livermore NL developed the mk 41 thermonuclear weapon which is 5.2 million times more effective than conventional explosives. It weighs about 5 tonnes and could be mounted on one of the larger ICBMs (DoE also said that they could develop a weapon which was about ~2x as effective as this bomb, which means that a 100 megaton design would only weigh 10 tonnes).
SildeMedia (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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its a 1:45000 chance it's small
lookforme2012 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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ok maybe not
lookforme2012 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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we are well on the way to being able to steer the earth away from such collisions...yes i said steer the earth.
more exactly changing our magnetic field through chemtrails..this will deflect some of the rocks coming in and also as i said slow or change the orbit of mother earth

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