Nuclear Shotgun

[nobdy0]

Last night Blake and I were talking about staged explosive propulsion after reading about the Operation Plumbbob test launching a manhole cover past solar escape velocity (estimated at ~56 km/s vs. solar escape of ~43km/s). Anyway, we got to thinking and decided that this is now the most awesome (if maybe not the most practical) asteroid defence

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[cyre2067]

Scientifically speaking, the likely scenario for astroid impact will be many hitting at the same time. If you follow this particular brand of estachology, they come from the oort cloud due to the near-passing of our sun's twin, nicknamed Nemesis. There's actually a lot of literature available if your interested.

For you're viewing pleasure I'll embed a video that the same people just put out:

[nobdy0]

2012?! SHIT MAN THAT'S LIKE ALMOST TOMORROW.