We have come close at least a few times that where publicized, who knows how many times are classified.
Classic example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Classic example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
I was addressing badfish's fear that the Russians might mistake this meteorite for a nuclear attack and immediately launch a military response. Wouldn't happen today, and it wouldn't have happened in 1963. (What that has to do with WMD's in Iraq is beyond me.)
Even Russia has its Glenn Becks. There is a nutcase in the Russian Parliament that was sure this was an American attack.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-says-meteor-was-actually-a-u-s-weapons-test/
This guy just sounds like an asshat. Lemme guess, he thinks the world was created in six days roughly 6000 years ago too?
By the time its in the atmosphere, blowing it up just turns one big explosion into a lot of little ones... Trading a slug for a shotgun.
I think the consensus thinking is that even blowing up a big asteroid way out in space does more harm than good, you would turn a dinosaur killer into 10,000 tunguskas and do as much if not more damage to the planet. The only way to use a nuke to protect us is to intercept it very far out and use a glancing blow that nudges the trajectory of the rock to miss altogether.
That must be a joke. Must be.
This guy just sounds like an asshat. Lemme guess, he thinks the world was created in six days roughly 6000 years ago too?
It's a spoof. Think the Onion.
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