(04-27-2019, 07:44 PM)Rajvik Wrote: Hitting the ocean is the last bloody place we want one to hit. Given odds its a higher likelihood granted, and the Pacific more likely than the Atlantic. That happens though, we're looking at a world spanning tidal wave tall enough to probably scour the pacific coastlines.
Hitting the Antarctic or the arctic would require the asteroid to either be coming in off the elliptic or would cause it to skip which as you pointed out would be a bad thing
Drogn has the right of it, try and hit a desert stretch with it if it has to hit.
(04-27-2019, 08:18 PM)Norgarth Wrote: If possible re direct it to strike the Moon. Luna's been Earth's shield for billions of years.
These.
We do NOT want a tidal wave to make the one as caused Fukushima to look like a splash in a wading pool. We really don't.
The last time we had one this big, well, there used to be a great big wide open plain connecting Britain to Mainland Europe, place called "Doggerland". It... ain't there anymore.
"Somewhere in the desert" is our best bet, preferably somewhere in the Sahara well away from anywhere populated. Or, y'know, the moon. That's how it got all those nifty craters you like to point your telescopes at.