wraggster
August 9th, 2012, 20:49
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 (http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/no-bomb-powerful-enough-destroy-rushing-asteroid-sorry-bruce-willis)."
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/08/09/0117243/no-bomb-powerful-enough-to-destroy-an-on-rushing-asteroid-sorry-bruce-willis
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/08/09/0117243/no-bomb-powerful-enough-to-destroy-an-on-rushing-asteroid-sorry-bruce-willis