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Europe sets next phase in asteroid deflection project
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| Tue Apr 4, 2006
Posted on 04/10/2006 1:11:18 PM PDT by presidio9
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:11:20 PM PDT
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presidio9
To: presidio9
Actually, I think this is a good project for Europeans since so few of them show much inclination to actually fight on the ground to save civilization.
To: presidio9
How much difference is there in the technology to deflect and the capability to aim?
TANSTAAFL!
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:25:25 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: presidio9
The Europeans cannot keep Europe being Europe how are they going to deflect an object the size of Manhattan traveling through space at 25 miles/sec?
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:36:31 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
To: presidio9
It looks like the French aren't part of the consortium. I guess the rest of Europe figures they'd just launch a huge white flag into space and surrender to the asteroid.
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:37:47 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
To: presidio9
Send them Uncle Ted. He could deflect a whole fleet of asteroids.
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:38:50 PM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
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To: presidio9
The European Space Agency (ESA) Will this still exist once Europe becomes part of the Caliphate?
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:39:23 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
To: presidio9
Let them fight asteroids. They stink at everything else.
To: SIDENET
Yeah but then they'd just try to cut the infidel asteroid's head off.
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posted on
04/10/2006 1:42:24 PM PDT
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Shaun_MD
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To: LibWhacker
Actually, I think this is a good project for Europeans since so few of them show much inclination to actually fight on the ground to save civilization. You're correct, there is nothing they love better than sitting around talking about something while not actually doing anything.
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posted on
04/10/2006 2:07:58 PM PDT
by
RJL
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/10/2006 2:23:18 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: presidio9
Someone in the CIA leaked secrets to the Europeans! The Doomsday Asteroid Manipulator modification to the Karl Rove Weather Machine is ready for testing!
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posted on
04/10/2006 3:01:03 PM PDT
by
manwiththehands
(I will remember in November.)
To: presidio9
I think that the name, "Don Quijote Project" tells us just about everything we need to know about it. :)
To: DBrow; presidio9; RightWhale; KevinDavis; King Prout
"How much difference is there in the technology to deflect and the capability to aim?" Vector direction.
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posted on
04/10/2006 3:23:50 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I don't want a World with empty dreams ... Dump the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Now! ... Farm Mars!)
To: presidio9
Can you think of any reason this European "My Weekly Reader" report is misspelling Don Quixote?
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posted on
04/10/2006 3:27:13 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I don't want a World with empty dreams ... Dump the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Now! ... Farm Mars!)
To: Mike Darancette
Well they DID get Bruce Willis to star in one of their films...
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posted on
04/10/2006 3:29:51 PM PDT
by
Philistone
(Turning lead into gold...)
To: NicknamedBob
usually spelled Don Quijote by Spanish-speakers; Don Quixote is an archaic spelling
link
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:03:54 PM PDT
by
kanawa
(My dog ate my tagline)
To: kanawa
That's me. Archaic.
And Quixotic.
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:06:13 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I don't want a World with empty dreams ... Dump the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Now! ... Farm Mars!)
To: NicknamedBob
Exactly. The same technology can take an asteroid that is orbiting close by and nudge it into an orbit that the folks in, say, Kansas would not approve of.
OTOH, the same tools can be used to nudge it into orbit, maybe, and then mine it for heavy elements, or crashland it on the Moon for later attention.
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:21:26 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: NicknamedBob
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:32:57 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
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