Asteroid on its way?
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If this were to come our way, what could be done with today's technology in a practical sense to avoid a global catastrophe?
[ 07-24-2002: Message edited by: Samantha Joanne Ollendale ]</p>
If this were to come our way, what could be done with today's technology in a practical sense to avoid a global catastrophe?
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[QB]If this were to come our way, what could be done with today's technology in a practical sense to avoid a global catastrophe?[QB]<hr></blockquote>
We're working on it...
If you plan on killing yourself 3 years before the asteroid hits, yeah.
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Another option is to have a robot land on the surface and drill a hole a third way to the center at an angle and deliver a nuclear device near the core but not quite in the center. that should cause it to spin very fast and hopefully break the whole thing apart flinging the parts in all directions away from earth.
Or we could collect all the garbage in the world, compress it then blast it at the asteroid to send it back the way it came and clean up the planet at the same time.
Failing that we could always use the Earth's entire nuclear arsenal to blow the sh!t out of it. If anything it would give all those trigger happy nations something to aim at rather than each other. See? this could be a blessing disguised as a HUGE rock. So long as they don't make a fr!!gin movie about it, oh wait, never mind.
Nah, that probably wouldn't work, but I could light one anyway.
Actually this just got me thinking something really stupid.
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[quote]October 2018 Status Report
<strong>We have finally decided on the location for the meeting for the committee that will determine the budget proposal for the committee to plan the catering for the blue-ribbon commission for the removal of the asteroid threat. </strong><hr></blockquote>
It should also be noted that while the articles about this was originally saying that is the first asteroid to receive a postive number on the <a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/doc/palermo.html" target="_blank">Palermo Scale</a>, it has since been downgraded to -0.14 on the scale. ( <a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2002nt7.html" target="_blank">http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2002nt7.html</a> )
I wouldn't worry, more data is still needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit, so for now there is still a huge margin of error. It just might hit Earth at this point. A good quote from that article is, "The error in our knowledge of where NT7 will be on 1 February 2019 is large, several tens of millions of kms,"
[ 07-25-2002: Message edited by: M3D Jack ]
damn grammatical errors
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Oh, wait...
</sarcasm in response to various discussions in Fireside Chat>
If that sucker stays on course, call me in about...2012 --
wait! Judgement day will have already occured and I'll be in heaven then! My bad.
</EVEN MORE sarcasm in response to various discussions in Fireside Chat>
Surfs up, dude!
<strong>Sweet.
Surfs up, dude!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hey, an asteroid of these size will destroy entirely the earth. :eek: