Re: 100 megaton bombs atop Saturn V rockets

From: Scott Ferrin (sferrin_at_xmission.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 06:00:54 -0600

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:40:00 +0200, "BitBanger" <Bb@dd.net> wrote:

>
>"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!

What would you suggest?????? A feather pillow???????????????????? Or
maybe that dumbass solar-sail idea like the guy in
Armageddon?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
That might work if we had ninety years to alter the friggin course AND
we had the technology TODAY, right NOW to make and deploy solar sails
miles across. We don't. A nuke is something we know how to do and
something we could throw together on short notice. It's the ONLY
thing in the tool box that has a realistic chance of effecting an
asteroid on short notice. There is no need for this unreasonable
terror you have for the word
"nuclear"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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