I thought we were supposed to drill 800 feet down, insert a nuke, and blow the asteroid up, preventing Armageddon.
I read that wouldn’t really help …much.
As you would still get the same mass and energy . If you pulverized it to billions of bb size rocks the energy would just be used in a different way. That is the particles would quickly convert their kinetic energy to heat from friction with the atmosphere and a big chunk of the sky would instantly be transformed to white hot plasma, baking everything under it for thousands of sq miles.
