Quote Originally Posted by JDM onlyy
Wow, but it doesn't seem to state anything about world-wide death or a second ice age, so I guess they should just calculate where its gonna hit and the effects, once they do that then they should make decisions on moving the asteroid or not. Just my thoughts.
As far as that goes, that might be something to precise to try and dick with. Rather than try and aim it somewhere just "safer" like the ocean (I presume you were talking about doing), just do as the article said, launch a mission early and aim it completely away from the Earth.