October 8th, 2007Flying Mirrors Will Impede the Armageddon
A solution reminding us of the “Armageddon” movie and high-skilled drillers like Bruce Willis would help only as plan B. In fact, scientists are focusing on flying mirrors to save the Earth from a catastrophic asteroid collision.
No less than 5,000 mirrors would be necessary to focus a sunlight fascicle on to the asteroid, melting the rock and shifting its orbital route away from Earth. The proposal came after a research team at the University of Glasgow analyzed nine different methods of pushing out near earth objects (asteroids and comets).
Amongst the methods investigated by scientists there was also the nuclear explosion, assessing the risk of flying debris after an aggressive nuclear explosion to be too high for life on Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
