Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
📍 How it ended
{ "epilogue": "Chinese rocket scientists proposed a two-step nuclear detonation method involving drilling a hole and burying a bomb about thirty metres down to deflect doomsday asteroids. Simulations indicated this subsurface approach would be more effective than a surface blast.
The coverage eventually quieted without further updates on implementation." }
Epilogue added 7d ago, after coverage quieted.
The story so far
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The obvious questions
What drove coverage for Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday aste?
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Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid South China Morning Post · 52d ago broke it first
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