Quote Originally Posted by JDM onlyy
Well, yeah kinda. It would depend on the size of the asteroid and all of that because even if the asteroid did hit the ocean, it would probably cause a HUGE wave that would wipe out the coasts of most continents and its another tsunami all over again. So yeah, lots of things to take into consideration, but the idea of taking care of it asap is the best one. Only problem would probably be how much it costs to do each mission, which is about $300 million, as the article states.
Yeah Its deffinetely an expensive move. It's hard to say what would happen and for the better or worse. They said it was 460 feet long...Thats big..but not big considering the size of the oceans. It could be, but then again couldn't be a safe thing to do. To me the best bet seems to launch the missin a.s.a.p. and have it avoid earth completley.

However They did say it was what? 1 in 45K chance of it hitting? I dont think that it would hit personally, but there's still that chance. Safe idea would be to launch, adn still give it more of a gap between it and us.