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because your going to blow us all away with a fart?
Apophis the asteroid that could end the world in 2036
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because your going to blow us all away with a fart?
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could be on top something there lol
I remember being told before that if everyone in china stamped their food in unison there would be earthquakes on the other side of the world lol
people come out with the funniest things.
then throw a few more nukes at it silly - nuke it to dust
the atmosphere can handle lots of little pieces, it cant handle 1 big chunk - haven you seen the bbc bitesize adverts?
LOL nuke it, and if that doesn't work, nuke it some more
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chewing gum.
someone chews 10 tons of hubba bubba and nasa air compresses it into a rocket - fires to the asteroid and voila.
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He would have, but he forgot the combination to the Nuclear Football.
And due to the laws of thermodynamics these smaller particles would heat up faster and thus disentegrate quicker resulting in a significantly lesser impact energy on the earth.
Personally I think we should use the 1.25 PW laser at lawrence livermoor.
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I am not worried. According to the climate change greenies we will have all drowned by then by rising sea levels.
Guess there is evenless point in paying anymore into my pension.
Guess there is evenless point in paying anymore into my pension.
And due to the laws of thermodynamics these smaller particles would heat up faster and thus disentegrate quicker resulting in a significantly lesser impact energy on the earth.
Personally I think we should use the 1.25 PW laser at lawrence livermoor.
Got a link to some info on that laser? Sounds pretty uber.
Lol I bet we'll see an asteroid hit before that happens.
"The extraordinarily powerful laser is called the Petawatt because the prefix 'peta' refers to a quadrillion, or 1015. The laser reached a peak of 1.25 petawatts of peak power, about 25% more powerful than expected and more than ten times the peak power of Lawrence Livermore's Nova laser, the world's now 2nd largest. The historic shots shattered the existing record for laser power (125 trillion watts) by more than a factor of 10, set by Livermore researchers using a Petawatt prototype during the summer of 1995."
https://www.llnl.gov/str/Petawatt.html
I'm sorry I can't decipher that post. Though I can tell you I haven't ever heard of any radioactive asteroids being discovered.
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ok this one i've known about for around a year now and it really does worry me for several reasons:
1. the odds of 1 in 45,000 are literally BROWN TROUSER time... as far as cosmic collisions go this may seem unlikely but these odds are very scary compared to other debris.
2. the most likely event is that the asteroid will pass (i think) 200,00 miles (or km, can't remember) away from earth... this falls closer to us than the moon! i.e within the lunar orbit... this is also brown trouser time because:
3. once the object passes Earth's gravitational field as close as this, we have NO IDEA what it will do next... the chance of it slingshotting past earth, the sun, etc and coming back to whack us in the face are often lower than the first collision! we will not know until much closer to the event! this remains a very likely scenario!
4. as more telelmetry is collected on the objects path (ie as years go by) we can better calculate it's projected path and this may mean that a collision becomes less likely... OR MORE LIKELY!! So in the next 2 decades this collision could become closer to a reality!
eek!
1. the odds of 1 in 45,000 are literally BROWN TROUSER time... as far as cosmic collisions go this may seem unlikely but these odds are very scary compared to other debris.
2. the most likely event is that the asteroid will pass (i think) 200,00 miles (or km, can't remember) away from earth... this falls closer to us than the moon! i.e within the lunar orbit... this is also brown trouser time because:
3. once the object passes Earth's gravitational field as close as this, we have NO IDEA what it will do next... the chance of it slingshotting past earth, the sun, etc and coming back to whack us in the face are often lower than the first collision! we will not know until much closer to the event! this remains a very likely scenario!
4. as more telelmetry is collected on the objects path (ie as years go by) we can better calculate it's projected path and this may mean that a collision becomes less likely... OR MORE LIKELY!! So in the next 2 decades this collision could become closer to a reality!
eek!
oh and nuking it definately doesn't work because you are not removing ANY mass from the object.... all the pieces are there and so will collide with the same energy but in many different places causing a great deal more destruction that a single object.
Infact by detonating a nuke you are possibly even introducign more energy into the object's impact and making things worse! this ain't an option....
Infact by detonating a nuke you are possibly even introducign more energy into the object's impact and making things worse! this ain't an option....
"Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand ..."
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lol, just send good old Harry Stamper up there and we're laughing.
(also, Chuck Norris will deal with it as and when he see's fit) Sorry
EDIT: On a side note I'm off to watch Armageddon
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lol dont use that one, the rock used in armageddon is beyond comparison. it was like quarter of the size of the earth. this is only 300 metres large.
and if it broke into many pieces the atmosphere has more surface to burn off making these junks even smaller by the time it hits the earth.
think of it like a small science project:
you have boiling hot water, 2 types of suger (sugar granules and a sugar cube) - if you dip the granules in the the suger, they are all soaked up individually making them much more easy to dissolve, if you put in a sugar cube it still stays as a cube and soaks up the water, still giving a hard surface.
many fragments of an asteroid as stated would burn in the atmosphere, one giant rock would use the outer layer to pass through it, and the remaining rock to impact.