Target: Trump

I'm guessing that many world leaders are currently looking at that asteroid that has just increased its chances of hitting the earth in ten years time, wondering whether it can be speeded up and whether it can be guided to land on the White House.  Or Mar a Lago, as there's probably a better chance of getting Trump there.  Such a project would be the inverse of the usual scenario, presented in films like Deep Impact, where governments try to keep secret the possible impact of a meteor in order to avoid public panic while they try to find a way of destroying or diverting it.  Here, of course, they'd have to keep it secret, not just to stop Trump from finding out, but to avoid premature public jubilation.  Nevertheless, I'm sure that if the world's greatest non-American scientists, mathematicians and engineers were to put their minds to it, they could calculate the course the asteroid needs to be diverted to in order to strike the East Coast of the USA and how best to speed up its arrival.  It could be the European Space Agency's (ESA) finest hour if they could come up with a rocket booster that could be attached to the asteroid's far side in order to boost its progress.  Of course, the icing on the cake would be if techno-jerk Elon Musk's Space X could be contracted to unwittingly take everything needed up into space on their rockets.  Although that could be risky, as they have a tendency to explode.  

I keep coming back to the old science fiction film This Island Earth, where it is revealed that the planet of the aliens abducting earth scientists is being destroyed by an enemy alien race who use spaceships to guide comets to crash into it. The image of those tiny ships peeling away from the comets as they hurtle planetwards has stayed with me since I first saw that film as a child.  Couldn't we come up with something similar to guide that asteroid in on Washington DC?  Now, I know that people might well object to this plan on moral plans, pointing out that if the asteroid was to hit Washington then thousands could die in the resultant widespread destruction.  But hey, I'm afraid that collateral damage is always inevitable in such operations.  I mean, just ask the Israelis - in order to protect themselves it's necessary to bomb the whole of Gaza flat killing hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians with no connection whatsoever to Hamas.  Unfortunate, but you just have to see the bigger picture and accept that sacrifices of this sort are necessary for the advancement of the greater good.  So, as far as protecting ourselves, not to mention the rest of the world, from Trump, Europe just has to be brave and make the hard choices.  Like ensuring that he's wiped out by a falling asteroid.  Because if we shy away from being proactive, then we're down to hoping that Blofeld and SPECTRE steal some nuclear bombs, hide one under the White House, then we don't tell the Americans and refuse to pay Blofeld his ransom.