No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis

coondoggie writes "Maybe it's the doom predictions about the end of the Mayan calendar this year, or maybe these guys are obsessed with old Bruce Willis movies. Either way a class of physics students from the University of Leicester decided to evaluate whether or not the premise of Willis' 1998 'Armageddon' movie — where a group of oil drillers is sent by NASA to detonate nuclear devices on an asteroid that threatens to destroy Earth — could actually happen. The students found it would take a bomb about a billion times stronger than the biggest bomb ever detonated on Earth."

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Re:not about destroying

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't we just aim it at Redmond?

Capital Of Singapore To Elaborate Smoking Limitati

[jenniferouellette]

In the returning year, Singapore’s smoking ban will expand. The announcement was created weekday by the Senior Minister of State, Grace Fu Jkoffers