What If We Nuked an Asteroid?
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An asteroid races toward Earth. It’s big, it’s fast, and it’s about to do a lot of damage. But we’re not just going to sit around and wait for the end of days. We’re going to fight back. What would happen if we nuked an asteroid? Would it save humanity? Or make things worse? How does a nuclear blast in space compare to a blast on Earth? And would our nukes even be strong enough to destroy it?
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In case of nuking an asteroid you have to hit a target, which moves with high velociy and according to a german documentary a nuke would have almost done nothing to the asteroid. There is also the risk that the asteroid breaks into smaller pieces after getting nuked. These pieces are smaller but still large enough to cause catasrophic impacts. On earth it might happen, when these pieces are scattered across the globe. So the earth comes face to face not with an asteroid but instead with an approaching cloud of large pieces of rock still large enough to result in incredible devastation.
But it is 2022..
see why don’t putin and all the other presidents mfung team up to nuke the asteroid instead of making the world double end
0:05
An asteroid, is racist towards earth
buy a bunker
Tnt fom minecraft
Oh my god asteroid
What if we nuked antartica
Russia, China, USA: * press nuclear bomb button *
this was right before my b.day😃
Um it’s 2022 now 😳.
Moon be like: wow
I think after you nuked it and if few of the asteroid weren’t that radioactive we can just mine it and search what mineral is contained on asteroid
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yeah that asteroid nearly hit earth but missed
💀 for Asteroid
2:41 .. I like that call of duty footage being used
And then nuke it again
we are in 2022 and i feel like nasa will change the orbit… but make it worse (closer )
Huge nuke first then some futuristic rain if skeets to track and lock on to smaller debris and boom them to bits
……
Daddy12345
We just need saitama👊
We got plenty of nukes. We can shower them with nukes.
Forget the nukes. Saitama punched an asteroid and it’s shattered pieces still did huge damages to the city the asteroid was headed for!🙃
Who else came here after watching Don’t Look up on netflix?
😀 its MW2 2:39
Make a video of what if all iron on earth disappeared
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What an idiot, worrying about astronauts. Credibility, lacking.
2:39 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
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What if The. Nuke. explode. In. Space
Nukes can’t destroy asteroid couple miles wide. Biggest nuke crater on Earth is less than half mile wide, and only 100 meters deep…the deepest.
Just a bald guy who’s a hero for fun can deal with it
If we dig the bomb into the astroid and detonate it the debris from it would go everywhere and could hit the earth
I wonder if it could be possible that eventually through dart. Asteroids would end up orbiting the earth and create rings? Just food for thought
The nuke that is probably capable for this mission is Russia’s "Sarmat ICBM" since it has unlimited range.
Astroids are off da hook
23 X Tsar Bomba =1150megatons🤯
If we nuked an asteroid it would get formed into a star and probably just completely destroy earth
Hancock we need you
When it nuked an asteroid it means: WE SAVED THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!
Nuke it again
What’s wrong with a human kamakaze spacecraft?
I love the fact that just a normal asteroid is still stronger than 23 Tsar bombs(the largest bomb human kind ever created)
What if a gurl texted me🤯
We could always just completely vaporize an asteroid by sending more than just one nuke.