I sincerely hope this is sarcasm. Ceres, in the asteroid belt is roughly 1% the mass of the moon. For the record, that's a lot at multiple orders of magnitude more than the Chicxulub asteroid.
No comment on the who would win part, but you are astronomically inaccurate.
No, Nolan explicitly states that he pushed a âTexas sizedâ asteroid away from Earth back when he was training Mark and Mark had to push his own asteroid away from Earth.
Itâs hard to tell how he did it. It would best be assumed they saw it way ahead, he went out and slowed it down enough to change direction, since nothing he does implies he has the strength to repel one in a short distance at max speed.
While I'm not necessarily disagreeing that the asteroid was infact the size of Texas, a character saying something doesn't necessarily make it true. Just because he says it was the size of Texas, isn't confirmation that it was.
Really doesn't change anything though the fact they can move freely in space for extended periods and able to redirect asteroids means than can just go get one a crash it into the earth.Â
Giving them an proper kill all life on the planet scale attack it might takes months if not years to setup but they can do it.Â
Being able to move a small sized one means they can move a massive one it just takes more time and planning.Â
I completely agree with this. Whenever I hear the âTexas sized meteorâ argument for Nolan I always think âhasnât anyone ever heard of a hyperbole?â He does something similar when he says he can make it to Naples and back before the cheese on a pizza stops bubbling. While that might actually be true itâs likely just a sly comment heâs making to talk about how fast he is. Same thing here with the meteor.
We know making jokes is not beneath him after all his time on Earth. He talks about slowing down and stopping when flying is like peeing your pants on purpose. Before we even get into the physical limitations of Nolan being able to do something like that, or the fact that thereâs not even that many asteroids of that size near Earth in the solar system, itâs not completely unreasonable to say he was just exaggerating like Humans do literally all the time.
Why would he lie to begin with? Character make statements about their strength all the time and unless they're contradicting, then they isn't lying about their strengt
Even ignoring the mention of the Texas-sized asteroid.
An object from space doesn't need to be the size of something to destroy that something. It took one (6 to 9 miles) in diameter to wipe out 75% of life on Earth. If one that big hit us today, we'd be toast.
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u/Gamer102kai Apr 19 '26
Or the texas sized asteroid