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Originally Posted by BlAcKNoVa
That's one big meteor lol...I'm sure if one that big was coming our way we'd know a few years, or even tens of years in advance, but what could we do? Wait...I know..the Lifestream will save us! (Final Fantasy VII fans will get this  ). |
Actually, most scientists predict that we'd have no advance warning if a meteor was to ever hit earth. There are literally millions of meteors floating around in space and its very hard to predict their path. The only way we currently have of knowing if a meteor was going to strike Earth is if someone just happened to be looking at one through a telescope; there is no system to track them.
And even assuming we did spot a meteor coming towards Earth, what would we do? Launch a nuke at it, a la Armageddon. All that would accomplish would be splitting the meteor into smaller meteors. Then the Earth would be pelted with several smaller, now radioactive, meteors.
In short, we'd be screwed.