Re: 100 megaton bombs atop Saturn V rockets

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Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:04:38 GMT

>"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 19 years the large asteroid Icarus swings by planet Earth, often
>> coming within four million miles of the planet in 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!

Actually, one big bomb is bad... but many little bombs would be much more
effective. George Dyson's book on Orion and the detail on 'thrust unit'
(sic?) design would be very relevant to this discussion. 

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