I believe that "Shiite" has a double-i. :sunny:

[edit] A little research also indicates that it's normally divided by an apostrophe: "Shi'ite".

Actually, the asteroid (Wolf-Biederman) was split in two by the initial nuclear blast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nIwFGmgYMs

The two halves are named Wolf and Biederman seperately, Wolf is the large population buster due to hit Canada and block out the sun for two years, whereas Biederman hits off North Carolina which does the damage seen in the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNtsVP42bOE

Wolf is slightly behind Biederman, so the crew of the Messiah decide to head into the deepest fissure they can find on Wolf and detonate the remaining nuclear weapons, which blows Wolf apart into smaller fragments which burn up in the atmosphere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWmd...feature=fvwrel


So Brow is correct. However, you are also correct with:

http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...ojimbo/ask.jpg

There's also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqA6OomHGuM

cast lead, dude.
Eat more fish. That will improve your memory.

Where's the white phosphorus ?

In before occidental.

At the scene!
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20374282

Note: Update record 17 November 2012 Last updated at 13:05 GMT

Looks like somebody will be looking for some real estate pretty soon.

I watch deep impact twice a week
 

I watch deep impact twice a week...on average...
No - it was Deep Impact. Yes the first series of spaced nukes did crack off a tiny chunk or the first asteroid. It later hit the ocean on earth. The big chunk was still a civilization killer. The crew of the semi-damaged space ship flew into a big crack in the big asteroid and blew it to bits which made the massive meteor shower over earth. I know how the movie goes cause I watch it religiously.

As for MIRVs I watched this very closely. I know the full set of reasons. But the reason I mentioned WAS one of the main reasons:

"Providing greater target damage for a given missile payload. Radiation (including radiated heat) from a nuclear warhead diminishes as the square of the distance (called the inverse-square law), and blast pressure diminishes as the cube of the distance. For example at a distance of 4 km from ground zero, the blast pressure is only 1/64th that of 1 km. Due to these effects several small warheads cause much more target damage area than a single large one."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipl...eentry_vehicle

In fact in the Civil Defense books I read in the early 80s every map I saw of projected damage on cities always included at least 4 strike points.

I'm not sure if the fissile material of the other bombs would "add to" the explosion of the first one, but I kind of doubt it unless the bombs were somehow designed for that (Each bomb is can be its own bomb or a stage in the detonation of a multistage device), but designing such a Frankenbomb would be a nightmare.

The only way it could possibly work is if they were using some kind of optical wiring and circuitry in the weapons. But these guys are NASA and not Starfleet I doubt they have that tech sitting around space rated already.

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I delivered a phone book there back in the 90's
There was nothing there just a big empty shell of a building.

Now remember this was like 1995 or somewhere around that
time period and anything can happen in a 17 year time span,
but seriously folks this war is getting out of hand.

It's not so much today I worry about, but it's the five year time
period it will take for Syria, Egypt and the other war like factions
that hate Israel to gather together for one giant move on these
obviously more intelligent people that have made the desert bloom,

developed nuclear weapons, developed their own delivery systems,
proving their contribution to the region has not been in vain.

Whee! and all that before breakfast west coast time :smug:

Well so what of what you say? In Africa crocodiles eat people, OK. :stare:

:haha::haha::haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:
Maybe the secret magic jewish mind control program has wiped your mind despite a very fishy diet?
No, I get it now, its the global occidental time travel club.

Then again as you are stuck with a crazy 1930s ideology maybe you just have difficulty understanding dates.:doh:

But not as many as those humans that eat crocodile :)

Who cares? People eat hamburgers too. Have you heard someone declaring war on hamburgers?

Just Macdonalds :hmmm:

The IDF are now practicing 'house clearance' exercises so unless the Arab League meeting comes up with a solution, which I seriously believe it will not, it's looking increasingly likely the IDF will move into Gaza:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20378425