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PostSubject: LOL: Don't rely on Bruce Willis to stop 'doomsday asteroid': Scientists   LOL: Don't rely on Bruce Willis to stop 'doomsday asteroid': Scientists Icon_minitimeTue Aug 07, 2012 9:04 pm
It will take more than Bruce Willis to save the Earth from a giant doomsday asteroid, according to scientists.

LOL: Don't rely on Bruce Willis to stop 'doomsday asteroid': Scientists Dharmageddon20120808054



In the 1998 movie Armageddon, Willis plays an oil-drilling engineer who heads a mission to split an asteroid the size of Texas in half with a nuclear bomb.

The two halves of the space rock pass either side of the Earth, saving the human race from annihilation.

But in reality, such a strategy would just not work, a study has shown.
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Borrowing a famous phrase from another Hollywood film, Jaws, we would need a bigger bomb.

A team of physics students calculated it would have to be a billion times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever detonated on Earth, the Soviet Union's 50-megaton hydrogen bomb "Big Ivan".

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/dont-rely-on-hollywood-to-stop-doomsday-asteroid-20120808-23sy1.html#ixzz22uccSiOd
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