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British Super Villains plan to destroy town

Lord Khan · 2001-04-12 12:48:00

Got this from slashdot - can't stop laughing ... "A TEAM of British space scientists has devised a plan to nudge an asteroid out of its solar orbit and send it hurtling into the centre of a British Town. The story posted in the Electronic Telegraph describes how a few small atomic blasts could change a comet's trajectory…

12-04-2001 12:48pm

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Got this from slashdot - can't stop laughing ...

"A TEAM of British space scientists has devised a plan to nudge an asteroid out of its solar orbit and send it hurtling into the centre of a British Town. The story posted in the Electronic Telegraph describes how a few small atomic blasts could change a comet's trajectory enough to make it crash to any point on earth. The impact of even a small asteroid would make an ICBM look like a firecracker."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000116411149926&rtmo=lvkPuQ7t&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/12/ntel12.html

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hehehe good one

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#3 12-04-2001 2:42pm

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Mmm saw this on sky news earlier, they say Russia has already carried out investigations into it. They hope it will spur Britian on to come up with a defense system. The best ting about it is that it would be like a hit and run. Noone would know where it came from or who did it.

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