> On 25 Jul 2002 at 22:05, Andy Brice wrote:
>
> > Time to start dusting off those plans for Orion*?
> >
> > Andy Brice
> >
> > *the nuclear bomb powered space craft designed in the 50's, able to
carry
> > huge payloads and achieve very respectable velocities.
> >
> To where? (the answer 'anywhere but here' will not suffice).
Actually I meant as a platform to deliver a number of collossal H-bombs to
the asteroid/meteorite. I would have thought that a few hundred megatons
would be enough to divert it or blow up into small enough pieces that they
would mostly burn up in the atmosphere.
Andy Brice
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