13 Sep
2005
13 Sep
'05
1:17 p.m.
Wouldn't it be grand up there in the spaceship, blasting away at that comet? Sounds fun to me, anyway. -- Joe
A special missle-carrying spacecraft could be constructed. The warheads don't even need to be on rockets- they could be accellerated electromagnetically, or even just fired from a mechanical device- spring loaded, pneumatic, centrifugal, whatever. For that matter, they could be launched from earth or earth orbit, repeatedly- strung-out in a line all the way from launch site to target, in numbers calculated to do the job, plus a safety margin.