60m Asteroid currently assigned a .022% chance of hitting Earth.

Joshua Hobbes

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2012da14.html

http://rt.com/news/paint-asteroid-earth-nasa-767/

Seems like a good opportunity to bring up existential risks. And A friendly reminder that NASA is in fact pretty damned important.

Thoughts?

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2012da14.html

http://rt.com/news/paint-asteroid-earth-nasa-767/

Seems like a good opportunity to bring up existential risks. And A friendly reminder that NASA is in fact pretty damned important.

Thoughts?

/shrug

I'm the one who has read in detail about basic equational descriptions of nukes by their tonnage, targeting concerns, the engineering involved in going to megatonnage or gigatonnage range, etc. (I wanted to make a nuke simulation game), so you'll pardon me if I put more weight on my opinion than yours.

so you'll pardon me if I put more weight on my opinion than yours.

And you must pardon me if I find that:

Your reference work pertains to an entirely different problem - one of interstellar planetary destruction.
Your reference work pertains to killing a population not destroying the planet itself.
The limiting factor that you appeal to is the lack of fissile material. This is an artifact of the tactic you have adopted of making many moderately sized nukes. If someone was optimizing the total amount of explosion they could make from a given amount of fi

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