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Originally Posted by CamaroSpike23
its a large number, but the amount of material that was actually put into the atmosphere was not significant enough to cause a change... now if they were all detonated simultaneously, yes, then we'd be in hot water....literally but they were spaced out enough to not affect things to a high degree
lol.... sarcasm doesnt read well does it?
because its the majority of the public who thinks that kind of thing could only happen in the movies. when in fact, just a few years ago, an asteroid passed within 230,000,000 miles of earth... yeah, thats a large distance, but we didnt see the damn thing until a couple weeks before it passed our orbit.
I agree that we need to spend donkey assloads of money on detection and deflection technologies, but unfortunately, thats not what the majority of the world cares or thinks about.
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Believe me there is not much we can do to stop an asteroid from hitting us. If you watched Armageddon, you would know that sending all of our nuclear warheads into its path wouldn't slow it down or break it apart at the speed they travel in.. Landing on one and drilling a hole in it deep enough to blow it up from the inside is simply science fiction at best.. So I disagree in spending "donkey assloads of money on detection/defelction technology when the planet has millions of starving people that are alive today that could use that money in whatever form it comes in.. (ie. help, charity,) In other words there are bigger fish to fry for the next couple thousand years..