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Old November 24th, 2021 #8
Nikola Bijeliti
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Originally Posted by bedford View Post
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.
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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