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To: InterceptPoint

I don’t believe you are wrong. An object that small can’t exert much more gravitational pull than the Empire State Building.


5 posted on 08/08/2014 12:05:14 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: fwdude

and yet... i am drawn to it.


6 posted on 08/08/2014 12:08:08 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: fwdude; cogitator; neverdem; Nachum; SunkenCiv

And yet, the “academic community” so desperate to argue against using a nuke warhead to blow apart an incoming comet/meteorite that would otherwise hit the earth, the “easy” part is matching orbits to the inbound comet and actually driving a “tether” into the surface of the rocks.....


10 posted on 08/08/2014 12:30:37 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: fwdude

Comet weighs way more. It’s 2 to 3 miles across.


16 posted on 08/08/2014 1:22:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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