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Originally posted by Ziroc:
I too saw this.
All I can say is; if they find out it WILL hit us, we better get our asses working on anti-matter weapons and QUICK!
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Ive done some thinking on this, and even is antimatter were a viable weapon system, the energy requirements to divert the asteroid 17 years before the impact are relatively small, well within human capabilites, whereas by the time you designed and built an antimatter storage mechanism small enough to launch, an antimatter generator fast enough to arm it in time and a missile big enough to hold the storage device, the damn thing would have hit.
Besides, here we have a prime opertunity to dump the vast majority of the worlds nuclear stockpile, why develop bigger, more destructive weapons instead?