Short answer: no
If you wanted to redirect it, you’d want to start nudging it way before it gets to earth.
Here’s an example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test
what if i send 100 missions like these, but to direct it to earth?
Sure, there are plenty of options. Just do these in reverse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance#Nuclear_explosive_device
very cool, hey i like you, thanks for helping me
just because you were nice to me, i’d like to advice you to leave earth before 2029
In case you are into it, this is actually one of the plot lines in The Expanse (spoilers).
Like reverse Armageddon?
I thought reverse Armageddon was where you send astronauts to go work in a mine for … reasons?
I can picture Steve Buscemi in this standing on earth this time, stating “this place is like Dr. Seuss’s worst nightmare”
I’d watch it.
I would think that Allah would be able to figure something out without needing nuclear weapons.
… And yet, here we are.
indeed
If Allah cared we would all be in hell already.
Wait a minute…
Asking for a friend?
Settle down there Dr.Evil…
I don’t know, but someone should try. Maybe it would knock us into a less stupid timeline.
It would blow apart the asteroid.
A lot of then aren’t sold rocks, but loose groups of small rocks and dust held together only by a small amount of gravity because there’s nothing else around.
The hard part is launching a nuke without setting off nuclear armageddon when all of the nuke-holding countries panic and launch theirs, so uh … why bother with the asteroid part?
Consider the complexity of getting this right:
