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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

A 60 foot wide two story house that requires a supercomputer's worth of computing to fire with any degree of certainty at a target the size of a continent. A meteor that would require pulling the trigger probably a month before the meteor would then hit. That doesn't exactly sound like an effective strategic weapon.