02-19-2016, 06:48 PM
"Don't worry, it looks like the Russians have our back on this.
Russia plans to modify some of its intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy asteroids before they hit Earth, according to a top Russian rocket researcher.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/politics/r...index.html"
Let's hope they have a bit more success with that than building telescopes - they don't have a good record with the latter. I also have no idea why they want to blow up small asteroids that are little threat to us with nuclear weapons. The Chelyabinsk meteor, roughly the size the Russians allegedly want to nuke, caused damage and sent some people to hospital, but was below the threshold of causing a catastrophic impact. Sending nuclear weapons to intercept such a threat seems a little over-the-top to me.
Russia plans to modify some of its intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy asteroids before they hit Earth, according to a top Russian rocket researcher.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/politics/r...index.html"
Let's hope they have a bit more success with that than building telescopes - they don't have a good record with the latter. I also have no idea why they want to blow up small asteroids that are little threat to us with nuclear weapons. The Chelyabinsk meteor, roughly the size the Russians allegedly want to nuke, caused damage and sent some people to hospital, but was below the threshold of causing a catastrophic impact. Sending nuclear weapons to intercept such a threat seems a little over-the-top to me.