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Originally posted by red-beard
Where to begin?
The Shuttle is only capable of low earth orbit. Once it gets to low earth orbit, it has only enough fuel for re-entry. To accomplish what would need to be done, you don't need much of a push, the farther away you start. But you need to start multiple million miles away to use a push to get it to miss. It all depends on the size of the Asteroid or comet.
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dude, don't be so negative, the shuttle can go refuel at the space station, Exxon will send up a minimum wage fuelstation attendant to operate it...
besides, this "we gonna die end of this month" crap was all done earlier this year, by that frenchie
http://www.savelivesinmay.com/
who has misteriously gone silent somewhere in june following a statement that the US governement , avoided the disaster by cancelling the premtive nuke strike policy or something...
it was quite the laugh