Re:Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
by chaosmachine on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:11PM
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I wonder how large an impact would be required to alter the earth's rate of rotation. I think we could all use a slightly longer day ;)
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Re:Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
by rbanffy on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:45PM
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You could do that with a lot of smaller impacts. Also, it would be advisable to hit all major plates equally, to reduce the risk of major quakes on fault lines. If we were going to try to do it in one impact, we'd better evacuate the planet before too.
And have no plans to return in less than a couple hundred years.