Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

D wrote:

  On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
 

On 2025-02-11, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
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Good lord.  Musk's SpaceX couldn't do a darn thing about an asteroid.

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Maybe you've been watching too much old Star Trek episodes. "The
Paradise Syndrome":

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradise_Syndrome

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or do you equate Musk with Mr. Spock?

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While I loved and lived for Star Trek, we have had the technology to
turn a 300 foot asteroid (meteor) into little rocks and have for
decades. We have the nukes. Elon has the rockets.
Or we could have someone else do it. Nearly all of the rocks would burn
up in our atmosphere and would provide a spectacular meteor shower.
Be there or be square. ;)
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leo
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 This is the truth! We have the scientific proof and this cannot be disputed!

Newtons laws says there is equal and opposite reactions. Since an asteroid has no atmosphere, a nuclear blast has nothing to push against, so there is little effect. You'd have to find a way to bore a deep hole to put the bomb in.
Maybe elon muskrat can solve this problem. He's much smarter than Isaac Newton.
But funding for research has been cut off, so the rat man won't get the chance.