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Originally Posted by bedford
I think NASA already has the technology that allows a spacecraft to get next to an asteroid and move it out of an orbit that could impact the earth. I remember watching a TED
talk a couple of years ago where a scientist discussed this.
They could also hit it with a tactical nuke and blowed it up real good, as John Candy and Joe Flaherty used to say on Farm Film Report. Remember SCTV.
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Blowing up an asteroid without deflecting it would do no good. It would simply hit the earth in many pieces instead of one.
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