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The US Is Trying to Weaponise Asteroids Against Enemies, Claims Russian Expert! | Weather.com (weather.com)
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Most meteors are car-sized, and burn up in the atmosphere before reaching us. However, scale it up to a 60-feet-wide two-storey house size, and you have a bomb stronger than the Hiroshima one. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The utility is in making it difficult to identify who it is that dropped it.

I think that the spaceship heading up to the asteroid ahead of time might narrow it down a fair bit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

kind of. yeah. i mean, don't get me wrong- it's patently nuts.

in theory, however, there's plausible deniability. Especially if they have some means of disguising the launch. Going up into orbit is common enough it could have just been a satellite launch. or maybe it was really the ESA that's doing it with all their asteroid RV missions.