With potent, flowery words speak i,
of something common, vulgar, dry;
i weave webs of pedantic prose,
in effort to befuddle those,
who think i wile time away,
in lofty things, above all day
the common kind that linger where
monadic beings live and fare;
practical i may not be,
but life, it seems, is full of me!

How would you use a nuclear device to prevent an asteroid from hitting earth? a. use the device to blow up the asteroid b. use the device to blow up part of the asteroid and deflect it c. detonate the device in proximity to the asteroid to deflect it d. use the mass of the device to slingshot the asteroid out of orbit