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>I’d rather be hit by smaller pebbles instead of an actual rock
That’s not the trade
Your choices are get hit with a big cannon ball or a blast from the biggest shotgun imaginable
The choice is irrelevant as the end result is largely the same
A single large impact can actually be less damaging because so much energy is wasted going up and down. A 2 km rock would enter with about 20,000 Megatons of energy. A 200 meter rock still enters with 200 Megatons of energy and now you have dozens of them which will ensure a more uniform devastation across the impact region
We shifted from building bigger and bigger nukes to lots of 100-250 kT warheads *because* multiple smaller explosions are more effective than a single large one. If you want to double the blast radius you need 8x the energy
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