...if george bush were in control of this situation, the nukes would go off,
having no effect on the trajectory, and then a massively radioactive
asteroid would squish us a few years later:)
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Andy Brice" <andyb1@btclick.com>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: <virus@lucifer.com>
Subject: Re: virus: Expert: Asteroid May Hit Earth, but Don't Panic
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:39:04 +0100
> 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
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
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