Most meteors are car-sized, and burn up in the atmosphere before reaching us. However, scale it up to a 60-feet-wide two-storey house size, and you have a bomb stronger than the Hiroshima one. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

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    1 year ago

    The utility is in making it difficult to identify who it is that dropped it.

    I think that the spaceship heading up to the asteroid ahead of time might narrow it down a fair bit.

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      1 year ago

      kind of. yeah. i mean, don’t get me wrong- it’s patently nuts.

      in theory, however, there’s plausible deniability. Especially if they have some means of disguising the launch. Going up into orbit is common enough it could have just been a satellite launch. or maybe it was really the ESA that’s doing it with all their asteroid RV missions.