Posted on 03/21/2018 10:47:49 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Anyhow, we have a space program and they didn't.
Despite all our computer skills, these things sometimes come as a surprise. But yeah, much worse than anyone can imagine.
Its not a matter of if, but when another asteroid will be on a course to impact the Earth.
Yep. just what we need - tons of radioactive material the size of buses and trains, and cities falling on us...
NASA needs to stay with climate change and other silliness and NOT get all of us killed.
Thanks. With more and better telescopes coming online all the time, they’re going to have most of these things mapped out real soon. Then we can all sleep better!
Did you like it? I’ve seen trailers and thought it looked silly.
NASA has been proposing versions of this since the early seventies
If you are off by one degree leaving earth for a trip to the moon, a mere 238,900 miles you will miss it by 4,169 miles but of course, what could possibly go wrong?
Then, we can create a very large cesta to scoop it out of the sky and swoosh it in another direction.
There... problem solved.
-PJ
We never know?
That future rock might kill a future cochroach Hitler in that far distant future.
You reading this post, on the other hand, might make you get annoyed and step on some cochroach in anger, thus preventing the above envisioned scenario altogether.
You killed their humble, but insideous, founding father who was in hiding behind your fridge hatching his plot for global domination.
In other words - I might have just made you a galactical hero.
You can send me cases in beer as an expression of gratitude.
I think we both just became guardians of the galaxy and deserve to kick back and celebrate our accomplishments.
Cheers,
Fellow Guardian of the Galaxy and enemy of cochroaches.
Like nothing could go wrong there.... They’d probably split it in two, and instead of one big one hitting somewhere, two big ones would hit two places....
I’d just say this... as a believer in God, His book tells me that mankind has been around less than 10,000 years. In that time, never ONCE, outside of a Hollywood movie, have we had a cataclysmic disaster by asteroid.
Why the panic now? Because Hollywood writers put the notion out there in every 3rd movie they produce...
The Book also tells us how it will end here. No asteroid collision, if I’m reading it clearly.
So, I just dont believe we have any reason to worry about this. But that’s me. To each his own.
What a great idea!
BUT just a few questions ...
Are they really thinking of launching megabombs on rockets that might fail and crash back to earth? I mean, what could go wrong?
And are they going to "practice" before they think they have to do this for real? Blowing up an asteroid looks easy in the arcade game, but is it?
And if they a really able to blow apart an asteroid anywhere close to the earth, how many (not so) little pieces will fall here anyway (or because)?
ML/NJ
I think I agree with you.
As a believer I do put my trust in God.
If God wants us to leave the planet, we will do so.
Though:
“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.” (Rev 8:1011)
Make of it what you will... I do not know what to think of it. It could sound like some sort of celestial impact. But, if it is - it is also part of the story that God has written before the creation of the world.
So, perhaps, it is wrong by humanity and a continuation of our rebellion that started in the Garden of Eden, to try to stop this destiny.
Personally, I think we should listen to our hearts and do what we think is best, then pray to God that we are right.
But, beware of Biblican dogma, imho, except what Jesus himself said:
“Be a decent chappes and decent lasses, will you.
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One group places odds at one-per-thousand-years on average. Seventy percent of impacts should fall in an ocean producing tsunami with little evidence of a crater.
But, you are ignoring possible very long orbit meteors.
Simply nothing can protect from the long period comet.
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