New York Post: These next-generation weapons will blast asteroids out of the sky
If an asteroid struck the Earth, there are no fewer than seven distinct ways it could kill you.
If you’re lucky enough to dodge the rock itself, other effects of a strike include gusts so strong that they could wrench the limbs from your body, fiery blasts on par with nuclear detonations and towering tsunamis which could drown entire cities.
If you evade these horrors, you’re left to face down a powerful shockwave, avoid burning fragments of ejected rock and survive the earthquakes triggered by the strike.
Asteroids can even wipe out entire species: The dinosaurs were thought to have been done in by an asteroid.
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WNU Editor: Blasting them out of the sky is probably an exaggeration. The current phrase is .... altering their course.
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