russians say asteroid may hit earth

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You could of explained it a bit better, it's a big difference between us landing on a comet and just sending cheap technology there.

MushroomWig

:lol:

Indeed I was conjuring up a mental image of what a '40s era lunar lander might look like all steampunky, messy and cool. I'm sure it was just a slip of the keystroke but I do believe the last time man was on the moon was '72 or sometime thereabouts.

Oh noez, we are all gointa diez. Tjeremiah1988

Exactly, and this is one of the lamest ways to go. I think as a species we should all ban together to figure out an awesome way to bring about the apocalypse and then work towards the goal of perfect destruction, together.

[QUOTE="EMOEVOLUTION"][QUOTE="BumFluff122"]You'd need an awfull powerful propulsion system to alter it's course. Even a nuclear strike on the asteroid, with todays bombs which are about 300 (or 3000 can't remember) times or so more powerful that the bombs used in WWII, wouldn't be able to change it's course as much as we'd like. There is a technology, or at least a potential technology, that would be able to alter it's course in significant amounts if we don't catch it in time however fuel is very hard to come by. An anti-matter engine/bomb is thought to be the most powerful potential type of engine or bomb in the universe that is known to man. Those are still a long way off from being made though as we don't even know how to hold the fuel inside the gas chamber yet and the amount of antimatter that humans have seen in their entire existence amounts to far less than even a milligram.

BumFluff122

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[QUOTE="MushroomWig"]

You could of explained it a bit better, it's a big difference between us landing on a comet and just sending cheap technology there.

MushroomWig

Well, I'm sure at some point, if we're around long enough we'll have the capabilities to move an asteroid. I'd rather do that than attempt to obliterate it.EMOEVOLUTION

What's wrong with it killing hundreds of thousands? We'll be way overpopulated then...

If there was even a slight chance of it hitting, it would be blown up first.

If there was even a slight chance of it hitting, it would be blown up first.

Pirate700

actually theyb wouldn´t that would just make things worse because instead of having 1 meteorite they´d have hundrends, if apophis had a slight chance to hit the earth they would move it with some gravity thing to keep it away from the earth (the problem is that in order to do the gravity thing they need a few years so if we knew that it was going to hit us a few days before we are screwed)

BTW I knew about apophis before and the chances of hitting the earth are EXTREMLY low, there was a time when people thought it had a decent chance of hitting the earth (well actually it was a very low chance but people were worried because there was at least some risk) but then someone saw there was a mistake in the calculations and they saw the chances were VERY VERY low

[QUOTE="MushroomWig"][QUOTE="BumFluff122"]I don't think the technology was cheap. Far from it actually. The only other natural thing other than Earth human have landed on is the moon and the last time that happened was in the 1940's I believe.

BumFluff122

if the nasa had all the money they could, some people would´ve been in mars

What's wrong with it killing hundreds of thousands? We'll be way overpopulated then...

RobboElRobbo

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[QUOTE="MushroomWig"] The 1940s? Was that a joke?hyrueprince11

if the nasa had all the money they could, some people would´ve been in mars

Even if there was an asteroid headed our way, there's nothing we could do about it. Intercepting it would be a really tricky operation.

Blowing it up wouldn't cause more problems, it would help. Smaller chunks of rock would burn up in the atmosphere.

Blowing it up wouldn't cause more problems, it would help. Smaller chunks of rock would burn up in the atmosphere.

Botnus_Six

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What's wrong with it killing hundreds of thousands? We'll be way overpopulated then...

MushroomWig

We all die together...

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[QUOTE="BumFluff122"]Lol. Sorry I meant the 1970s.

MushroomWig

if the nasa had all the money they could, some people would´ve been in mars

money doesn´t but scientist do and in order to do that they need to get paid, also they need material and as you might guess the material is not free plus astronouts also need to get paid

[QUOTE="MushroomWig"][QUOTE="hyrueprince11"]

if the nasa had all the money they could, some people would´ve been in mars

hyrueprince11

money doesn´t but scientist do and in order to do that they need to get paid, also they need material and as you might guess the material is not free plus astronouts also need to get paid

[QUOTE="MushroomWig"][QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

What's wrong with it killing hundreds of thousands? We'll be way overpopulated then...

RobboElRobbo

We all die together...

we get hit by space rocks daily . unless its a massive and very hard its not going to make much of an impact

If there was even a slight chance of it hitting, it would be blown up first.

Pirate700

Not possible. And even if it were, how would we then deal with the not one but, possibly hundreds or thousands, of smaller rocks heading right towards earth?

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[QUOTE="MushroomWig"] Money doesn't just invent technology, they could of had all the money in the world but that doesn't mean they would have the materials needed for such a thing.MushroomWig

money doesn´t but scientist do and in order to do that they need to get paid, also they need material and as you might guess the material is not free plus astronouts also need to get paid

I´m sure that I can prove you wrong but I can´t seem to find a link that I´d need to do it

Blowing it up wouldn't cause more problems, it would help. Smaller chunks of rock would burn up in the atmosphere.

Botnus_Six

If we blow up a 900km asteroid it would blow up into many smaller chunks. Some of which would be large enough to hit Earth. We may have to deal with multiple oncoming potentially deadly asteroids as compared to one. We would have to change the trajectory of each of those asteroids that wouldn't burn up in the atmosphere. Remember this would be a miltibillion dollar mission. We can't just do that then decide to send up another volley a week later.

Blow it up! Do it the American way baby!

Blow it up! Do it the American way baby!

LikeHaterade

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Blow it up! Do it the American way baby!

KiIIyou

Blammy!

A piece of rock is a lot different than a force of nature. You can't destroy weather. :|Pirate700

What? :| Stop looking at me like that. We gotta nuke something.

NASA says that it is very unlikely that it'll hit Earth.C3Le5tiaL

This is going to happen in 2029 in case you people forgot THE WORLD IS GOING TO END ON THE 12th OF DECEMBER 2012 :p

we'll all be dead by then so no need to worry ....if 2012 is not the end then maybe we're screwed

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[QUOTE="EMOEVOLUTION"]You are aware that humans have managed to land on a comet right? They launch a rocket into space, when the rocket coems close to the asteroid or comet they release a small capsule that f;ies down to the surace of the comet or asteroid. This has been done before. The only difference would be that within the capsule there would most likely be a nuclear warhead or something. It would blow backwards from the way it came tryign not to blow up the actual asteroid because then there would be millions of large pieces raining down on us. Instead they use the blast to change the direction of the comet or asteroid without actually blowing it up but as it is moving so fast and as this would have such a small effect on it they would have to alter it's trajectory very early on. IF we wanted to though we could very likely blow it up.

MushroomWig

Y2K, 2012, Swine flu, Bird flu, and now asteriods hitting the Earth. I have come to the conclusion that people love living in paranoia. Maybe the media is to blame.

Dante2710

We all die together...

Why? You don't feel any pain if you're blown up into oblivion and if everyone's loved ones are dead then explain to me the loss.

Even if there was an asteroid headed our way, there's nothing we could do about it. Intercepting it would be a really tricky operation.

Shad0ki11

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]A piece of rock is a lot different than a force of nature. You can't destroy weather. :|thunderf00t

What? :| Stop looking at me like that. We gotta nuke something.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

If there was even a slight chance of it hitting, it would be blown up first.

chessmaster1989

Or they'd send up Bruce Willis to drill a hole in it and plant some explosives so that it'd blow into two pieces each of which would miss the Earth...

quick! off to mars!

Before we worry about the outer space, let's worry about our planet itself first.Bloodseeker23