Talk:Asteroid impact avoidance
The anti-nuclear tilt is too obvious. Maybe some Wiki-ist can resist beating the anti war drum.
"Nuclear scientists are simply trying to find new excuses to keep nuclear missiles around"
Its only the most powerful force creatable by man. I'm not sure they can make millions of tons high explosives much less get it into space.
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Anyone who has read any science fiction (like me) knows about lots of other things that in theory could be done, that does not seem to be part of the near future science consideration. Would it make sense to have a "main artlce" on how this is solved in the world of Science Fiction. There is a Time travel article which reads like science thinks that is plausible, with a main article Time travel in fiction.
Examples of what I mean by solutions in Science Fiction:
- Stick eyes in the sky to see the menace long before it gets here, like a satelite on the dark side of the moon, in the equivalent of a 24 hour orbit over planet Earth where satelite in fixed point in sky. So these satelites are used to map what's coming at us from all directions, and where the risks might be, instead of risk not find out about the thing before it is right on top of us.
- Spend serious money budget to send expeditions to some of those asteroids and comets that cross earth orbit, to learn as much as we can about their composition, what it would take to divert them. We need to know as much about them, if not more, than we know about all other bodies in the solar system other than the Earth and the Sun.
- Send an expedition to the Asteroid belet, and towe some of them back here, to use as shields ... a big rock is hurtling towards us, so we take one of the shields and acelerate it up to rammming speed, at a collision angle that will take the debris away from Earth.
- There are some SF movies that involve shooting nuclear missiles at these rocks. I would like to see some scientific analysis of the validity of the "science" in those movies. If we tried that in real life, I expect that instead of a huge rock on a collision course with Earth, there would be a huge radioactive rock on a collision course with Earth.