LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood sci-fi thriller, but researchers from Lawrence Livermore National lab have joined with an Air Force team of technologists to test if a nuclear blast could be used to deflect an earth-threatening asteroid.
Whether it be Bruce Willis and his crew of oil drillers taking on an asteroid as it approaches earth in ‘Armageddon’ or Tia Leoni and her father awaiting a massive tidal wave from an asteroid strike in ‘Deep Impact,’ Hollywood has been fascinated by the threat from space.
I believe episodes like this are what add to the distrust in science and scientist and corporate funded profit driven science/scientists. No mention of nuclear fallout. We have been down this road…How soon We The people forget. Sad.
See: https://www.universetoday.com/16066/bad-idea-blowing-up-aste…-missiles/