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- From: adam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Adam Hamilton)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Comet deflection & mining
- Message-ID: <27935@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:52:40 GMT
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <BxBGKy.34H@techbook.com> szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo) writes:
- :Deflecting anything but the strongest nickle-iron asteroid
- :with a nuclear explosive is silly. Many asteroids are probably
- :rubble piles, not single big rocks, and comets are so fragile we've
- :seen some calve off big chunks and obliterate themselves just from
- :internal gas pressure. For a comet, farting can be suicide!
- :
- My favourite posting of the week.
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