BAD DEFLECTION HURTS, ALSO EXPLOSIONS MAKE IT A SHOTGUN EFFECT. Ed Lu President @ B Foundation, ʻ04] “Near-Earth Objects testimony before the Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, April 7, 2004 If the asteroid is not deflected in a controlled manner, we risk simply making the problem worse. Nuclear explosives for example risk breaking up the asteroid into pieces, thus turning a speeding bullet into a shotgun blast of smaller but still possibly deadly fragments. Explosions also have the drawback that we cannot accurately predict the resultant velocity of the asteroid not a good situation when trying to avert a catastrophe. Conversely, moving an asteroid in a controlled fashion also opens up the possibility of using the same technology to manipulate other asteroids for the purposes of resource utilization.
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