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NASA selects ‘Option B’ for Asteroid Redirect Mission
spaceflightinsider.com ^
| Collin Skocik
Posted on 03/28/2015 12:32:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
03/28/2015 12:32:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
So basically get a small asteroid from the surface of a large asteroid.
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posted on
03/28/2015 12:40:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
I am having a problem understanding how this is supposed to work.
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posted on
03/28/2015 12:53:36 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: cripplecreek
And put this new asteroid into orbit round the moon. No, I cant see anything that could go wrong. Lets screw with the moon. Maybe we can have 100 foot tides. Or maybe we can place it wrong, and watch as it whirls off into the earth at mach 1000
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:01:11 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: BenLurkin
Why not pluck boulders from space and toss them at your enemies? You hurl a big enough rock at a city and you have all of the effects of a high yield nuke without all of that messy radiation to deal with...
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:02:57 PM PDT
by
bayliving
(Democrats, Republicans - Two sides of the same coin.)
To: DesertRhino
Won’t be enough mass to screw with the moon or tides. If it entered the earth’s atmosphere it will be a bright fireball and never reach the surface.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:06:03 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
This is the equivalent of getting a huge stack of money and setting it on fire.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:09:36 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: bayliving
Check out the scifi novel “Footfall” for that very scenario.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:11:26 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: BenLurkin
What does Algore suggest?
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:16:01 PM PDT
by
keving
(We get the government we vote for)
To: BenLurkin
“Up to four meters in diameter”. More like a meteoroid than an asteroid. It’s less than half the size of the meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:16:26 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: BenLurkin
But, did they vet this plan with the Muslims first?
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:21:32 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
To: bayliving
Why not pluck boulders from space and toss them at your enemies? You hurl a big enough rock at a city and you have all of the effects of a high yield nuke without all of that messy radiation to deal with. Actually it would not be that hard to do with a near earth asteroid. You could actually steer a "planet killer" at the earth. If you "push" the asteroid slightly when it is far out in its orbit it would not take a great deal of energy to put it on a trajectory to impact the earth. A 5 kilometer asteroid would do us all in.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:24:43 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: cpdiii
Tungsten darts the size of telephone poles fired from the surface of the moon with rail guns would be formidable weapons. Maybe small rockets attached to make minor course adjustments.
We need to achieve the high ground.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:38:07 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
This sure seem like an awful lot of shoveling for a quite useless hole. So we "tow" s useless rock from one place in space to another, and then "visit" it. What have we gained? We can already determine it's makeup from instruments. Even if it were pure gold, the value would be far less than the cost.
This sure sounds like something Obama dreamed up in one of his adolescent nightmares.
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posted on
03/28/2015 1:44:38 PM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
To: norwaypinesavage
Just yesterday we sent one of the Kelly brothers to space for a year to find out what we already know.
Homer Hickam was complaining about it on twitter yesterday saying we should be looking for ways to overcome the damaging effects of space travel instead of proving what we already know.
I personally think we should be concentrating on living on the moon and using it as the jumping off point for deeper space.
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posted on
03/28/2015 2:01:36 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Option B for "Barry". Thanks BenLurkin.
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posted on
03/28/2015 2:06:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: bayliving
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posted on
03/28/2015 2:17:48 PM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: BenLurkin
Is this Billy Bob's idea?
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posted on
03/28/2015 2:28:58 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: DesertRhino
If you punched the moon with a 10 miler at 30 miles a second the worst we’d face is a bunch of pretty diffuse re-entrant ejecta bombarding us. They’re talking about something the size of a basket ball.
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posted on
03/28/2015 2:31:59 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
03/28/2015 2:34:03 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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