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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:28:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious question. Could an ICBM intercept an asteroid to divert its trajectory? Even if you had a delivery vehicle a nuke in space might be more flash then bang. No air to transfer shock wave. Mostly just heat and radiation. Perhaps if the nuke detonated on contact you might get enough push from it. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:29:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In interstellar terms. Are we in a period of high occurrence in reference to these objects? But in historical terms, we are at our highest point yet of being aware of these objects passing near us. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:31:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wave Motion Gun  |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:35:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We're damn close to the tech needed to reliably deflect a cosmic impactor. Just as long as we have the detection infrastructure in place. I don't know if many of you have noticed, but many of these types of reports say something like "We just detected an object that passed inside the moon's orbit yesterday" Many of these objects are first seen shortly AFTER their near approach. So, if any of those had been impacts, everyone's first notice would be the sudden fireball and shockwave. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:37:36 PM EDT
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They need to stop using these close approaches as news filled, at least if it's outside the Moon's orbit...
People aren't good at dealing with signal-to-noise ratios and they'll be all burned out when an actual dangerous one is coming near. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:45:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:46:50 PM EDT
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Please hit DC, but only in Minecraft
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:48:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They need to stop using these close approaches as news filled, at least if it's outside the Moon's orbit... People aren't good at dealing with signal-to-noise ratios and they'll be all burned out when an actual dangerous one is coming near. It's how scientists shake loose the money tree. OMG we are all going to die if we don't research XYZ! |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:48:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Their idea of "near miss" is vastly different then mine. Millions of miles away is not a near miss. BS brought to you from the same folks that don't think Pluto is a planet. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:49:54 PM EDT
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yeah, fuck all that @ the "hope one hits!" folks.
I like my readily available food, clean water, hot shower, and soft warm bed in somewhat reasonable security. Anyone who tries to say otherwise is lying. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:51:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: yeah, fuck all that @ the "hope one hits!" folks. I like my readily available food, clean water, hot shower, and soft warm bed in somewhat reasonable security. Anyone who tries to say otherwise is lying. Notice how nobody has said "I hope we have another plague" in the last 25 months or so? Same deal. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:52:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Notice how nobody has said "I hope we have another plague" in the last 25 months or so? Same deal. 
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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:58:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Marco Inaros is asshoe. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Damn outtabeltas!!!! Marco Inaros is asshoe. Oyedeng, Inaros! |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 4:02:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Animation_of_99942_Apophis_orbit_around_Earth.gif Yikes. That'll be a clenched cheeks moment for sure. What's to say some other object out there won't perturb its orbit and send it all the more closer? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: yep. now that's some scary shit. wiki: The closest known approach of Apophis occurs at April 13, 2029 21:46 UT, when Apophis will pass Earth closer than geosynchronous communication satellites https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Animation_of_99942_Apophis_orbit_around_Earth.gif Yikes. That'll be a clenched cheeks moment for sure. What's to say some other object out there won't perturb its orbit and send it all the more closer? I can see it now.. Some non-Egghead: Good numbers, Frank. That's going to be a squeaker for sure. Looks like a good miss. Frank: Well...yeah. But the margin for error this far out is +-20K. Some non-Egghead:Huh? No matter. I'll just pass on the miss. Besides, I'll be retired by then so it will be someone else's baby! |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 4:14:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They need to stop using these close approaches as news filled, at least if it's outside the Moon's orbit... People aren't good at dealing with signal-to-noise ratios and they'll be all burned out when an actual dangerous one is coming near. We'll never hear that an actual dangerous one is coming near until its just hours away. If ever. For the people running the show, it would be counterproductive to let the masses get riled up and cause mass chaos over something they can't control. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 4:15:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2022 4:27:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The only interstellar object I know of was Oumuamua. That was an interesting one... |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 5:21:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: could also nudge a small one into a trajectory to obliterate a troublesome |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 5:24:12 PM EDT
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Hopefully by the time the big one hits I'll be in a beautiful bubble Martian city having a nice drink with my new pal Elon Musk.
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:05:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think I caught those references... Lets just call it 70%... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I read it will hit in the Pacific somewere 300-500 miles off of California. It will wipe out most of the coastal cities. Quoted: It depends on if the asteroid can be mined for precious materials. Lets just call it 70%... Personally, I'm going to just pray for cool clothes, watches, and apartments. I don't want to see those things go away. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:09:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Plasma bugs heard xiden cancelled T$'s space force and decided to get it on and launch another asteroid towards Beunos Aires. Hopefully the documentary about this will have higher quality tits in it than the original one did I, for one, would like to know more? |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:12:12 PM EDT
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Serious response...I would think that if we had enough time to do this, we could send up a craft that could effectively act as a tugboat and simply push the thing off its course. Get some craft flying along side it...dock with it...then thrust it to the side. Can't be impossible.
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:19:09 PM EDT
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 Phil Collins - I Missed Again [Audio HQ] HD |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:33:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It would be hilarious if it missed Earth and took out the moon. There's no carbon credit high enough to unfuck the climate change THAT would cause. Honestly- that would be every bit as catastrophic to life on earth. Potentially more so actually, because earth has recovered from massive impacts but it’s the moon that gives us tides and helps stabilize our rotation so if it was gone there’d be no recovering from that loss |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:37:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: yep. now that's some scary shit. wiki: The closest known approach of Apophis occurs at April 13, 2029 21:46 UT, when Apophis will pass Earth closer than geosynchronous communication satellites |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:38:48 PM EDT
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I am surprised that our elites have not blasted off in their personal ark ships to save themselves already.
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:42:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What would happen on earth if something that size hit the moon? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: yep. now that's some scary shit. wiki: The closest known approach of Apophis occurs at April 13, 2029 21:46 UT, when Apophis will pass Earth closer than geosynchronous communication satellites There are some who believe the moon itself is the result of a super-massive impact that split it off from the earth |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:43:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I amuses me how these things have been whizzing by since mankind stood on two legs, yet now we're supposed to tremble and gnash our teeth every time one...misses. Fear is a money maker for certain types of people. |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:43:56 PM EDT
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So, the risk is similar to an elephant being missed by a grain of sand by 2000 miles. Got it.
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:47:06 PM EDT
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Has it passed?!?!?
Can I come out of my bunker now?? |
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Posted: 1/18/2022 7:50:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious response...I would think that if we had enough time to do this, we could send up a craft that could effectively act as a tugboat and simply push the thing off its course. Get some craft flying along side it...dock with it...then thrust it to the side. Can't be impossible. Far from impossible. We'll be able to do it within the next few decades. |
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Posted: 1/21/2022 8:46:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/21/2022 10:00:33 PM EDT
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I take it that it missed us
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Posted: 1/21/2022 10:06:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Even if you had a delivery vehicle a nuke in space might be more flash then bang. No air to transfer shock wave. Mostly just heat and radiation. Perhaps if the nuke detonated on contact you might get enough push from it. Could you make a giant shaped charge to hopefully fracture the rock? |
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Posted: 1/21/2022 10:09:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: could also nudge a small one into a trajectory to obliterate a troublesome Well if you could give it a nudge undetected, you'd have plausible deniability. Like china denies they did anything. |
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Posted: 1/21/2022 10:09:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Honestly- that would be every bit as catastrophic to life on earth. Potentially more so actually, because earth has recovered from massive impacts but it’s the moon that gives us tides and helps stabilize our rotation so if it was gone there’d be no recovering from that loss Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It would be hilarious if it missed Earth and took out the moon. There's no carbon credit high enough to unfuck the climate change THAT would cause. Honestly- that would be every bit as catastrophic to life on earth. Potentially more so actually, because earth has recovered from massive impacts but it’s the moon that gives us tides and helps stabilize our rotation so if it was gone there’d be no recovering from that loss Not to mention sending Moon Base Alpha careening out into space |
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