I swear the last time I saw news about this asteroid a week or less ago it was like 1.9%
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Oh good, an ELE. Did Elijah Wood find this one? Welp, call president Beck and send The Messiah with the nukes.
Edit: Damn two people hate Morgan Freeman that much?
There's a study that says the effects of an impact landing in water won't be as bad as thought.
Also there is a way of using nukes to detonate adjacent to an asteroid or comet that slows it down without a risk of fracturing it. The heat turns the surface red hot and makes it shoot out mass and slows it down more. So we can stop basically any asteroid as long as we see it.
Armageddon?
I don't wanna close my eyes!
Things have been so wacky I think we need bingo cards for global events. We could charge for them and give bingo winners some of the proceeds.
Iβd be interested to see if they can capture it, rather than deflect the asteroid. We need to work on space-based manufacturing anyway, and itβd be convenient if we could get this thing parked at a Lagrange point for research and practice.
First reference to Bruce Willis.