The US Is Trying to Weaponise Asteroids Against Enemies, Claims Russian Expert! | Weather.com
The US Is Trying to Weaponise Asteroids Against Enemies, Claims Russian Expert! | Weather.com
Most meteors are car-sized, and burn up in the atmosphere before reaching us. However, scale it up to a 60-feet-wide two-storey house size, and you have a bomb stronger than the Hiroshima one. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
Most meteors are car-sized, and burn up in the atmosphere before reaching us. However, scale it up to a 60-feet-wide two-storey house size, and you have a bomb stronger than the Hiroshima one. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
I mean, you could probably do it, but it'd be a lot cheaper and easier to just use nuclear weapons. And you could do it when you wanted, rather than waiting for an asteroid of appropriate size to be passing by.
I don't really see the utility.
The utility is in making it difficult to identify who it is that dropped it. Nukes are very easy to identify- down to where the ore was mined before extraction, where the ore was refined and weapons grade materials further extracted.
Also, asteroids would presumably not leave nearly as much radiation. And are relatively common in that part of the world, for some strange reason
In any case, the reality is either the guy is nuts- or this is some kind of false flag: “the us is planning to use asteroids!”…. [proceeds to drop asteroid on themselves]
A 60 foot wide two story house that requires a supercomputer's worth of computing to fire with any degree of certainty at a target the size of a continent. A meteor that would require pulling the trigger probably a month before the meteor would then hit. That doesn't exactly sound like an effective strategic weapon.
The utility is in making it difficult to identify who it is that dropped it.
I think that the spaceship heading up to the asteroid ahead of time might provide one with some pretty good guesses.
it should be a tick episode.