Daily Star, the US Weekly of news aka its bullshit.There's actually a few more sources I believe, but yep you never know when it comes to these sites
Give me BBC, NY times or WSJ. If I don't see it there, then its not reliable.LOL the liberal vibe you put out.... Ny times is shit BBC is shit. WSJ in particular is shit.
Edit: Also did you even read the articles dude?? Russian boss says it (yeah, they have been doing a stellar job lately :P),
and one of the articles you posted says NASA says its a 99.984% miss chance, so now you are confusing me.
Give me BBC, NY times or WSJ. If I don't see it there, then its not reliable.LOL the liberal vibe you put out.... Ny times is shit BBC is shit. WSJ in particular is shit.
Edit: Also did you even read the articles dude?? Russian boss says it (yeah, they have been doing a stellar job lately :P),
and one of the articles you posted says NASA says its a 99.984% miss chance, so now you are confusing me.
BBC is consistently known as the most unbiased news source
Give me BBC, NY times or WSJ. If I don't see it there, then its not reliable.I skimmed through the other 2, just to show that there were other sources, and whatever, it's not that big of a difference :P
Edit: Also did you even read the articles dude?? Russian boss says it (yeah, they have been doing a stellar job lately :P),
and one of the articles you posted says NASA says its a 99.984% miss chance, so now you are confusing me.
Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?Think pretty much every international space treaty signed by just about everyone prohibits doing stuff like that. Nukes in high orbit = very bad things for a lot of people. Fallout in jetstreams isn't a good thing.
Who said in the Atmosphere? Im talking before it even gets close to the moon.Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?Think pretty much every international space treaty signed by just about everyone prohibits doing stuff like that. Nukes in high orbit = very bad things for a lot of people. Fallout in jetstreams isn't a good thing.
But yeah, we could probably hit it with your regular store-brand ICBM. Just no nuclear payload.
Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?
You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?
Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.
Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.
You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?
Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.
Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.
There already is better solutions. If within 10 years or 18 years we know for a fact if it will hit or not NASA will send it of course, and not explode it. Is actually not that hard. Theres videos on this. It's all been done before. easy peasy.You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?
Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.
Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.
What would you suggest?
America wastes another several billion dollars to send a nuke into space, towards an asteroid that could potentially shift its course at any time due to a number of things. That also has a almost .5% chance of hitting us in 19 years.
It's a waste of money and a bad idea in general.
If it's going to hit us, it'll hit us, maybe it won't be one big one anymore, it'll just be thousands/hundreds of smaller ones capable of hitting a much larger area.
Unless someone manages to come up a better solution in the next 19 years, there's no proper way to stop an asteroid especially one of that size.
This is another bullshit doomsday story. It's will be the same as y2k and 2012 after it doesn't happen there will be a new doomsday story for people to worry about.
This is another bullshit doomsday story. It's will be the same as y2k and 2012 after it doesn't happen there will be a new doomsday story for people to worry about.
Isn't this our 7th apocalypse prediction in the last 15 years?
I am saying we threaten the Meteor with nuclear warfare till we know it will miss or not and if it would hit we nuke it in such a way that it either doesn't exist or goes off course.You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?
Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.
Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.
What would you suggest?
America wastes another several billion dollars to send a nuke into space, towards an asteroid that could potentially shift its course at any time due to a number of things. That also has a almost .5% chance of hitting us in 19 years.
It's a waste of money and a bad idea in general.
If it's going to hit us, it'll hit us, maybe it won't be one big one anymore, it'll just be thousands/hundreds of smaller ones capable of hitting a much larger area.
Unless someone manages to come up a better solution in the next 19 years, there's no proper way to stop an asteroid especially one of that size.
It would only take an asteroid the size of an american football field to destroy the ecosystem.How big was the meteor in russia?
"1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake"It would only take an asteroid the size of an american football field to destroy the ecosystem.How big was the meteor in russia?
"1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake"What was the estimated initial size before it went into the atmo burn?
Not big.
"1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake"What was the estimated initial size before it went into the atmo burn?
Not big.
Guess nobody really agrees with my point on not caring (well, not a point, really), and just living life regularly for those nineteen years. There's no point worrying if it's bound to hit or not, because if chances are that it does hit, either we'll find a way to stop it, or it will be instantaneous, and most definitely non-painful.
There's been so many of these predictions I don't really believe in any of them anymore. Also it's funny how a majority of these predictions actually have a slim chance of hitting us behind them.
I don't think you quite understand what kind of jurisdiction a Space treaty encompasses. Even then, using nukes on it when it's far out is still a bad idea. The leftover debris would still be moving in the same general direction, and there's no guarantee that it'll all be far enough away from the Earth. Sure the debris would likely not be as catastrophic, but again, you're potentially releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere.Who said in the Atmosphere? Im talking before it even gets close to the moon.Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?Think pretty much every international space treaty signed by just about everyone prohibits doing stuff like that. Nukes in high orbit = very bad things for a lot of people. Fallout in jetstreams isn't a good thing.
But yeah, we could probably hit it with your regular store-brand ICBM. Just no nuclear payload.
Because posting Exterminatus pic means nothing.It was a joke Hence the Exterminatus picI don't think you quite understand what kind of jurisdiction a Space treaty encompasses. Even then, using nukes on it when it's far out is still a bad idea. The leftover debris would still be moving in the same general direction, and there's no guarantee that it'll all be far enough away from the Earth. Sure the debris would likely not be as catastrophic, but again, you're potentially releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere.Who said in the Atmosphere? Im talking before it even gets close to the moon.Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?Think pretty much every international space treaty signed by just about everyone prohibits doing stuff like that. Nukes in high orbit = very bad things for a lot of people. Fallout in jetstreams isn't a good thing.
But yeah, we could probably hit it with your regular store-brand ICBM. Just no nuclear payload.
Just gonna leave this here...But exterminatus solves everything!
http://history.nasa.gov/conghand/nuclear.htm
Basically what I'm trying to say is a nuke would be useless. Space is a vacuum. Which means no waves. Which means no blast or heat, only a shit ton of radiation.
Soooo if it is gonna hit us we can't blow it up. No meteor showers for us! :(
Just gonna leave this here...
http://history.nasa.gov/conghand/nuclear.htm
Basically what I'm trying to say is a nuke would be useless. Space is a vacuum. Which means no waves. Which means no blast or heat, only a shit ton of radiation.
Soooo if it is gonna hit us we can't blow it up. No meteor showers for us! :(
Just gonna leave this here...
http://history.nasa.gov/conghand/nuclear.htm
Basically what I'm trying to say is a nuke would be useless. Space is a vacuum. Which means no waves. Which means no blast or heat, only a shit ton of radiation.
Soooo if it is gonna hit us we can't blow it up. No meteor showers for us! :(
THIS! I said this, but a source is always nice :P
Just gonna leave this here...
http://history.nasa.gov/conghand/nuclear.htm
Basically what I'm trying to say is a nuke would be useless. Space is a vacuum. Which means no waves. Which means no blast or heat, only a shit ton of radiation.
Soooo if it is gonna hit us we can't blow it up. No meteor showers for us! :(
THIS! I said this, but a source is always nice :P
Looks like we're going to have to mine an earth-sized hole into it! xP