--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
[B]ut it seems to me that you need higher precision to hit the center of mass for an accurate deflection, than a "good enough" hit with an old-fashioned, '60s era mega-nuke warhead (or two, or three, or ?). "Close counts in horseshoes and atom bombs" or something like that, didn't the phrase go? But more likely is that the bomb will be soft-landed. <snip>
LOL! I agree on all counts but Schweickart's approach is probably the most politically realistic.
(What was that remarkable little spacecraft that soft-landed on an asteroid recently?) <snip>
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