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NASA May Use Nukes To Defend Earth From Asteroids
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| 06-22-2015
| By Sarah Fecht
Posted on 06/22/2015 12:28:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
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What could possibly go wrong?..............................
To: SunkenCiv
Catastrophism Ping!...................
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:28:50 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
I certainly hope that when the day comes we HAVE to use a nuke to protect ourselves, we have the brass, and the nukes, to do so.
When we are about to be smashed to smithereens is not the time to play "green".
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:32:34 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Red Badger
Better call A.J., Chick, Bear and Rockhound.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:33:02 PM PDT
by
cork
(Gun control = hitting what you aim at)
To: Red Badger
What could possibly go wrong?.Turning a few small rocks into a bunch of little bitty rocks. ;)
/johnny
To: Red Badger
I sure hope that we do just that - with plenty of overkill. When a civilization-destroying object is headed toward the Earth, it isn’t time for half-measures.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:35:48 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Red Badger
The same government who let “China” read our personnel files for a year, who couldn’t protect a US Ambassador, doesn’t have enough amphibious ships for the Marine Corps, couldn’t set-up a simple website, lost guns in Mexico and forfeited the Middle East? Well, I’ll sleep better tonight.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:36:57 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: Red Badger
Even the “relatively small” Chelyabinsk rock was equivalent to 20-30 Hiroshima bombs. It would have caused a lot more devastation had it not exploded high above the ground.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:39:19 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Red Badger; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:39:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: Red Badger
What in the world does this have to do with making Muslims feel better about themselves?
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:41:51 PM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
Pieces Be Upon Them......................
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:42:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
“Blowing things up” seems to be the common (and calming) thread. It is a “religion of peace” after all.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:43:03 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: Red Badger
What could possibly go wrong?..............................
1. The nuke is a dud.
2. It blows up at the wrong place or wrong time.
Yea I know, someone will worry about terrorism or the environment, but to paraphrase a certain famous person:
"What difference, at that point, will it make?"
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:43:28 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
“What in the world does this have to do with making Muslims feel better about themselves?”
We’ll be giving them the nukes?
To: BitWielder1
I believe Jupiter runs defense for our planet.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:49:16 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: Red Badger
Environmentalists would complain if a nuke was successful in deflecting an asteroid.
To: Red Badger
We’re not talking an over 50 kT nuclear warhead like the W80 warhead on our cruise missiles. A 15-20 kT warhead is enough to “nudge” the trajectory of the asteroid to a different orbit if you drop a soft lander with the warhead on the asteroid and then detonate the bomb.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:57:57 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: BitWielder1
Trouble is, we’ve lost our launch capabilities.
This was all heavily studied in the late 60’s under “Project Icarus”, an MIT study.
I remember when I was in college I worked in the library back then putting books back on the shelves. I stumbled across the Icarus study and sat down in the aisles and read it...
99.9% certain now that we would just blast it into a different orbit.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:59:19 PM PDT
by
djf
(OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
To: Red Badger
Send in the Armageddon Team:
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:02:19 PM PDT
by
TexasCajun
(Hillary: Ethically Sleazy & Politically Stupid)
To: Red Badger
hypothetically speaking... if a 60m asteroid was on target to impact directly on mecca tomorrow and we had a nuke that could vaporize it before impact, should we?
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:02:33 PM PDT
by
TangibleDisgust
(The Parmesan doesn't go like that.)
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