[cripplecreek]

So basically get a small asteroid from the surface of a large asteroid.

[Red_Devil 232]

I am having a problem understanding how this is supposed to work.

[bayliving]

Why not pluck boulders from space and toss them at your enemies? You hurl a big enough rock at a city and you have all of the effects of a high yield nuke without all of that messy radiation to deal with...

[Moonman62]

This is the equivalent of getting a huge stack of money and setting it on fire.

[keving]

What does Algore suggest?

[Telepathic Intruder]

“Up to four meters in diameter”. More like a meteoroid than an asteroid. It’s less than half the size of the meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013.

[COBOL2Java]

But, did they vet this plan with the Muslims first?

[norwaypinesavage]

This sure seem like an awful lot of shoveling for a quite useless hole. So we "tow" s useless rock from one place in space to another, and then "visit" it. What have we gained? We can already determine it's makeup from instruments. Even if it were pure gold, the value would be far less than the cost.

This sure sounds like something Obama dreamed up in one of his adolescent nightmares.

[smokingfrog]

Is this Billy Bob's idea?

[Raycpa]

Do we call the asteroid wormwood?

[KoRn]

I know that I’m nowhere NEAR as ‘smart’ as these people, but to me this entire thing sounds like a colossal waste of time and money. Especially when you consider that we’re paying the Russians for trips to space.....