Dread L0rd Kaolian wrote:
You do realize that by the time that impacted on the surface it would be about the size of a volkswagen right? I mean, were not talking a world ending strike here.
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Nasa has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere.
Ummm... yeah.
Regardless of whether or not
this thing is going to hit us, it's probably about time to make sure that we do have the capabilities to deflect or destroy one of these things if it does, in fact, hit Earth. It's bound to happen sometime, and better safe than sorry.
$20 on the first big one that does hit Earth landing in New Jersey.