Originally posted by: thejamppa
Kira survived Nuclear explosion when Athrun self detonated Aegis in SEED, this situation is similar.
just to be a smartass - Aegis couldn't ever produce a nuclear explosion unless it shot a nuclear missile
which at that point of the story wasn't possible cause the Neutron Jammer Canceller would only be on blueprints
and not yet build
Originally posted by: Curium
Originally posted by: Jurojin
Screw it, you're not worth my time. I've already told you why Kira couldn't dodge
Dodging would have been easy. All he had to do was turn Freedom off and let Gravity do the work.
i disagree
i interpreted the events as such: Tannhauser was fired, Shinn gets his sword, Kira looks at the Tannhauser beam approaching ArchAngel, Shinn charges in, Kira looks back at Impulse only to see it speeding towards him

now let's say Kira turned the thrusters off at that point, even then i highly doubt it would've been in time to let Freedom drop totally out of range of Shinn's charge
i think that if he would've turned it off things would've been more disastrous as Freedom would've been struck higher and thus closer to the cockpit

but that's just my interpretation of things