Humanity's ultimate weapon today, the nuclear bomb—even the largest nuclear warhead, detonated on the surface—would only blast out a crater a hundred meters deep.
Nuclear weapons were powerful only in comparison to fragile life, not against celestial bodies in the universe.
Indeed, humanity currently possessed a great many advanced technologies, but for various reasons, those technologies had not yet had the chance to be applied to warfare.
Of course, the most crucial reason was that humanity had acquired these technologies too recently. Such a short span of time was nowhere near enough for scientists to fully grasp them; they were still at the stage of simply copying them wholesale.
"If we launch every nuclear warhead and detonate them at a designated location, do we have a chance of deflecting the meteor's trajectory in advance?!"
In another conference room, experts and scholars from every relevant field across the entire world, regardless of where they were, had been urgently summoned and gathered together in a virtual meeting room.
At the center of the conference room, a three-dimensional projection displayed a corner of the starry sky. The brightest sphere was the sun; the other spheres were the planets of the solar system. Apart from them, there was a relatively tiny point of light dyed a deep, blood-red color. That point was the meteor about to strike Earth.
"This meteor's trajectory is far too tricky. You could even say it is as though it has auto-aim enabled. Its impact point is precisely at Earth's center, without the slightest deviation. You must understand that in the movement of celestial bodies, there are far too many variables. The vacuum appears empty, but in truth, all kinds of forces exist within it. The gravitational pull of those massive celestial bodies cannot be ignored, even when spread