Scientists say the United Nations should make plans to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth in 2036.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070218/sc_nm/asteroid_deflector_dc_5
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070218/sc_nm/asteroid_deflector_dc_5
U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat!
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Iamforever
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anything that has to do with nasa makes me laugh. if there was a serious threat, it will be taken care of. and not armageddon style. :rofl:
Any predictions as to where they'll hit?
The UN can't even get their shit together to fix things down here. The prospect of blue helmets in space is laughable.
The UN can't even get their shit together to fix things down here. The prospect of blue helmets in space is laughable.
i'll take those odds.
coincidentally, it's similar odds of anything that mob actually tried would work properly!
At least it preempts the 32-bit POSIX time_t overflow ...
I hit 65 that year and always figured if the US Social Security isn't broke by then, all records will be wiped out anyway just-in-time for my retirement.
[ FYI, for those that don't know, it is a far better issue than Y2K, as it's an issue at the core software library of all systems in use today ]
NASA was merely reporting what it has been directed to report.
I, for one, would like you guys to spend just 1 week as a NASA engineer.
Would change your perspectively immensely.
From the Cape falling apart since the end of the Moon shot to the unrealistic goals with the budget restrictions,
any NASA "failures" have been due to budget cuts which directly affect QA.
The Mars Polar Lander was a perfect example, QA was slashed 90% (along with everything else), and it didn't surprise me what happened.
NASA knows, as every engineer with a basic class in Dynamics (Engineering Mechanics) knows, that the earlier you deflect something, the less you have to deflect it.
Most of the work can and is done by the gravity of other bodies, not the spacecraft.
Hell, even high school kids who've had classic, non-calculus physics can understand space travel fundamentals.
Like the fact that spacecraft that leave Earth's orbit (I'm talking beyond the moon) get much of their velocity from gravity slingshots, not direct thrust.
Well it least it preempts the 32-bit POSIX time_t overflow on 14 January 2038.
I hit 65 that year and always figured if the US Social Security isn't broke by then, all records will be wiped out anyway just-in-time for my retirement.
[ FYI, for those that don't know, it is a far better issue than Y2K, as it's an issue at the core software library of all systems in use today ]
Because?
I don't think NASA was saying anything of the sort.
NASA was merely reporting what it has been directed to report.
I, for one, would like you guys to spend just 1 week as a NASA engineer.
Would change your perspectively immensely.
From the Cape falling apart since the end of the Moon shot to the unrealistic goals with the budget restrictions,
any NASA "failures" have been due to budget cuts which directly affect QA.
The Mars Polar Lander was a perfect example, QA was slashed 90% (along with everything else), and it didn't surprise me what happened.
I guess you didn't read the article, and you must think NASA is directed by Hollywood or something.
NASA knows, as every engineer with a basic class in Dynamics (Engineering Mechanics) knows, that the earlier you deflect something, the less you have to deflect it.
Most of the work can and is done by the gravity of other bodies, not the spacecraft.
Hell, even high school kids who've had classic, non-calculus physics can understand space travel fundamentals.
Like the fact that spacecraft that leave Earth's orbit (I'm talking beyond the moon) get much of their velocity from gravity slingshots, not direct thrust.
I think soon we will have the capability to know almost all of the large near-Earth bodies floating out there. That means we will probably know where most of the 10-kilometer civilization killers are near us. The things that will be harder to find are the smaller chunks that are a few hundred feet across. I could see one of those sneaking by someday, but even now besides the asteroid mentioned the next close encounter is close to 800 years away and that has an extraordinary slim chance of impact.
2036... I guess it's a little too early to start rioting, looting, and get that "the world is going to end" piece of ass, huh?
Maybe they're hoping to use it as a nuclear disarmament tactic. "If every country that has nukes unloads their entire arsenal into space at this asteroid it will effectively remove the threat."
dave_rhino
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I say leave it. The planet is slowly being destroyed by it's own inhabitants, may as well put it out of it's misery. At least it's destruction will be caused naturally...
Anybody remember that Futurama episode where Leela finds the other one-eyed guy.. then it switched to a lil Married with Children style, and the guy says the mole people fired all their missiles at once, hoping desperately to kill something?
It's sorta like that. But not really. At all. Yeah...
Okay. :walks away:
What a splendid, ideal message I should leave my kids!
"Sorry the love of my lives! We don't have anything that will protect you!
dave_rhino
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I wouldn't advise repeating anything you read on a porn-forum to your kids :thumbsup:
a. Like they would not know that already? How old do you think they are, really? 10?
b. What made you possibly think that I would ever tell them: "Someone on this porno website I know tells me that this world is coming to an end! Oh my goodness! Sell your stock! Buy a farmhouse and chickens! THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END!!!" ????????
Mr. Dave Rhino,
The intent of my original post (and current one) was to dispute your original post ["This world is about to end! Fuck this shit!" etc. ad infinitum]. You have every right to be welcome to them - as I have every right to be welcome to mine.
cheers,
BNF
Ex-SuperMod
Just have someone inform the UN that there are brothels, drug bars and no authority for women and children to turn to except the blue helmets....
... and you'll have yourself troops on the meteor's ground in no time.
No doubt, in the event of a plausible line of target, the US will "pray" for it's destruction, Europe will try to reason with it and stall its unstallable progress, the French will argue that the US is trying to expand their empire, and the Chinese will have a whole new slew of developments to steal and make inferior copies of...
dave_rhino
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a. Like they would not know that already? How old do you think they are, really? 10?
b. What made you possibly think that I would ever tell them: "Someone on this porno website I know tells me that this world is coming to an end! Oh my goodness! Sell your stock! Buy a farmhouse and chickens! THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END!!!" ????????
Mr. Dave Rhino,
The intent of my original post (and current one) was to dispute your original post ["This world is about to end! Fuck this shit!" etc. ad infinitum]. You have every right to be welcome to them - as I have every right to be welcome to mine.
cheers,
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