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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Methods for meteor avoidance
- Message-ID: <BrwIxr.5Bv@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:25:01 GMT
- References: <a6cf4fff@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <a6cf4fff@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> brendan.woithe@f820.n680.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Brendan Woithe) writes:
- >After the meteor from last year passed withinn 4 minutes of the earth (the
- >large one), I was wondering if we have any system of avoiding these
- >large beasts??!! ...
- >With a problem like this, surely there must be some defence!!!
-
- There has been discussion of this, both in the past and recently. The big
- problem is detecting them far enough in advance. Given adequate advance
- warning, one could use large nuclear bombs to destroy or deflect the incoming
- rock, in principle. There is a practical problem in that the US currently
- has no launcher adequate to the job; there are some things for which there
- is no substitute for a Saturn V or equivalent.
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- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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