Technology Laboratory

Attempts to stop the meteor

Tonight was supposed to be the night of the new year but there was no festive atmosphere at all in all places on Earth, this was because a meteor was about to hit Earth in a few hours. Official shelters in various places have been filled by people to the brim, everyone must be willing to rush the urge to survive rather than die outside.

Of course there are some people who do not go to official shelters like the Dimas family, for the sake of privacy convenience and no need to jostle with others Dimas and family spend a huge cost to build their personal sanctuary. At the time before the meteor's existence was confirmed by the government, Dimas only needed to spend his personal money to collect various supplies such as food, medicine, utensils and various metals and building materials. But after the government confirmed the existence of the meteor made the value of money no longer exist, fortunately Dimas had received support from his family who are the owners of a private oil company in Indonesia, using oil to transact and paying others to expand their personal sanctuary, Dimas was able to get two firearms for self-defense with just a few barrels of diesel oil.

"Currently, meteors have reached where our nuclear bombs can reach and nuclear bombs have begun to be launched out of Earth's atmosphere at this time. Only with this nuclear bomb will we have any hope of continuing to live a normal life or if this nuclear bomb fails then we will repeat the history of the dinosaurs" The host's voice was heard along with a live video of the launch of a nuclear bomb towards a meteor.

The thousands of nuclear bombs that rise and leave the atmosphere into space look like thousands of fireworks directed into the sky on the eve of this new year which makes some people finally remember that night it's new year's night.

Thousands of nuclear bombs continue to go into space without slowing down, even after fully escaping the Earth's atmosphere thousands of nuclear bombs accelerate faster because the force of gravity of the earth is no longer as strong as before. Thousands of nuclear bombs continue to accelerate in space and will be expected to hit a meteor in less than 1 hour.

Everyone watching the live broadcast did not move from their position, they were at home waiting while looking at the meteors and the thousands of nuclear bombs that approached each other every second. Finally in the 50th minute the frontmost nuclear bomb hits a huge meteorite that keeps rushing to Earth, one by one the nuclear bombs continue to explode after hitting the meteor and if you pay close attention to this time the meteor has shifted slightly from its original orbit.

All humans on Earth were excited by this shift, the host even shouted with excitement to forget about him who was currently the host. In the command room of the nuclear bomb launch everyone was also very excited, some people even shouted to express his happiness, he said, but the UN chief who was also in the room frowned when he saw the meteor that had changed its orbit slightly.

"Calculate the probability of that meteor hitting Earth right now" he ordered.

Scientists and physicists began performing computations assisted with supercomputers to obtain more accurate results. In less than 1 minute finally the calculation is completed and makes people pull back their excitement. Meteors do deviate slightly and will not directly hit Earth, but the meteor will orbit the Earth for once before hitting the South American region. This result was even worse than hitting the pacific ocean before. Even more terrifying is that the subsurface meteor did not sustain any damage during the incursion of thousands of nuclear bombs.

"Send another wave of nuclear bombs and push this damn meteor farther than its original orbit!" The UN chief gritted his teeth and shouted to everyone.

The people in the command room immediately returned busy and prepared for another nuclear bomb launch. The UN chief was asked to enter a 12-digit code to launch a nuclear bomb back and soon the flames from the tails of thousands of nuclear bombs filled the night sky on western Earth and immediately headed into space. People from all over the world are shocked by the second wave of nuclear bombs which means the previous wave of nuclear bombs did not completely succeed in preventing meteors from hitting Earth.

There are also people who are aware that except for changing its orbit slightly, the surface of the meteor is not damaged in the slightest after being hit by thousands of nuclear bombs that can even destroy many countries. People ask each other why meteors do not suffer the slightest damage but no one can answer that.

"Quick, count the results!" This time it was not the UN chief who spoke, but one of the old scientists who urged his colleagues to immediately make calculations.

"Successful! That meteor won't hit Earth!" In just less than 1 minute a physicist shouted and laughed, others immediately followed him and a joyous atmosphere filled the entire room. The resulting data shows that the meteor trajectory has gone far and will only pass through the Earth.

Seeing that the orbital trajectory of the meteor would not hit Earth the UN chief could finally sit quietly and sigh in relief. He saw a monitor that monitored the location of the meteor, the position of the meteor still moving at high speed in space but no longer pointing to Earth. In less than 2 hours later the position of the meteor is already going to pass the Earth but strange things happen, the meteor suddenly deviated from its new orbit and back to aim at the Earth without knowing the cause.

The UN chief who kept an eye on the meteor from earlier stood with his eyes wide open, he looked puzzled by the absurdity in which the meteor changed his own direction and began to think about things.

"Could the calculation be wrong? Did you know that meteors are captured by Earth's gravity and instantly change their orbits? Yeah, that's for sure!" The UN chief made the conclusion.

Looking at the monitor for the last time, the UN Chairman saw another monitor that was still connected to a video call with all the leaders of countries in the world. The UN Chief shook his head and let out a long sigh. The leaders of the country were initially happy because the meteors were stopped from hitting the Earth, their load was lost directly and made their bodies ripple. On hearing the commotion from the nuclear bomb launch command room where the UN chief was located several leaders noticed.

"Everything, the meteor is back towards Earth, thought to be due to the gravitational pull of the Earth so that the meteor is back towards Earth" the UN chief explained soberly and sat down grimly.

"Let's announce the failure of this operation and prepare for the meteor collision, may your country survive to the end!" The UN chief said bitterly, he shouted the end of his sentence while clenching his hands up before finally turning off the video call.

Failure to prevent a meteor from hitting Earth means that from now on humans will experience a difficult life, becoming rats in the ground and can no longer move freely on the surface of the Earth. The UN chief walked from the command room as if there were no souls in his body, stepping his feet towards the shelter that was underground in this building with the people behind him.

The last person to leave the command room posted news of the failure to prevent a meteor across social media with an official UN account before shutting off power in the command room and following another colleague.

The post immediately attracted the attention of everyone and panic soon broke out on social media, the governments of each country also make the same announcements as those posted by the official UN accounts and ask all its citizens to go to their own official sanctuary or personal protection as quickly as possible.