OFF: The dangers of Cosmic Rock

[Michael W Blackman]

In a message dated 9/01/02 10:26:16 PM Cen. Australia Daylight Time,
fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK writes:


> They'd have to start by investigating asteroids and comets to figure out
> HOW to defend against them. Real life ain't Hollywood and even if we did
> build the capability to nuke 'em far out enough to have an effect, it'd
> almost certainly make things worse in some cases as it'd alter one big
> bang somewhere into thousands of medium bangs everywhere.
>
> There's also the leelte problem that any space based system that could
> hit an asteroid would be able to make a pretty big mess of a city after
> a minor orbital manouvre to point it in the other direction. It's the
> sort of thing that gets people worried about intentions.
>

The sollution is simple and cheap - direct sonic blasts of Reggie Jackson's
organ classics directly at said asteroids.
Regardless of space being a vaccuum the sonic blasts will still be
devastating to the target