Re: 100 megaton bombs atop Saturn V rockets

From: BitBanger (Bb_at_dd.net)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:40:00 +0200

"Elden" <Elden72992@nospamearthlink.net> wrote in message
news:w8SGc.4962$sD4.3881@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> http://www.thespacereview.com/article/175/1
>
> Every nineteen years the large asteroid Icarus swings by planet Earth,
often
> coming within four million miles of the planet > astronomical terms.
Icarus last passed by Earth in 1997. Before that, its
> previous approach was in June 1968. We now know that such near-Earth
> asteroids are not all that rare and in recent years Congress and NASA have
> shown greater interest in trying to track, and even visit them.
>
>
> What the group decided to do was to take six Saturn V rockets then in
> production, and with only minimal modifications to their payloads use them
> to carry smaller bombs to Icarus. The first launch would have to take
place
> by April 1968, only a year away, and five more launches would have to
follow
> at two-week increments.

What is it with this f*cking infatuation with nuclear bombs!!! Why do they
keep wanting to blow up things when it has been shown many times before that
this is the wrong kind of solution. In fact, it could make things even
worse!

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