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Finally... It looks as if it may be coming..
2006-01-06, 7:29 AM #1
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060104/NEWS/601040303/1039
2006-01-06, 7:51 AM #2
I can't imagine that being very hard to solve. We've got plenty of nukes, I imagine one next time it gets close should be enough to put it off course. I hope they do it at night.

*edited for grammar*
2006-01-06, 8:08 AM #3
Wasn't something like this supposed to happen a while ago?

Meh..if it's time for the world to explode, it's time for the world to explode.. :p
woot!
2006-01-06, 8:45 AM #4
(Cue Ruthven's Stargate reference)

Oh, well. Not much to be done now except hope that our governments get it right.
the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken
2006-01-06, 8:55 AM #5
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I can't imagine that being very hard to solve. We've got plenty of nukes, I can imagine next time that if one gets close, it should be enough to put it off course. I hope they do it at night.


There, to prevent DJ Yoshi from grilling you about grammar errors.
The cake is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
2006-01-06, 10:37 AM #6
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/

Not to worry. We know what to do.
>>untie shoes
2006-01-06, 10:38 AM #7
"I saw this one. It hits Paris."
Stuff
2006-01-06, 11:35 AM #8
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I can't imagine that being very hard to solve. We've got plenty of nukes, I imagine one next time it gets close should be enough to put it off course. I hope they do it at night.


Yes, nukes solve everything.
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2006-01-06, 11:44 AM #9
*Sorry this reply is late wolfy*

No problem, 4 members of an elite team with C4 will take care of that Asteroid.
Or maybe transport the whole thing through hyperspace through the earth?

We destroyed Apophis before, we can do it again :em321:

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2006-01-06, 11:46 AM #10
Quote:
Not to worry. We know what to do.
But if Bruce Willis dies, it just won't be worth it.

Also, Let's ask NEO. He's The One.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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2006-01-06, 11:55 AM #11
DOOM!
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[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2006-01-06, 12:12 PM #12
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
. . . We've got plenty of nukes, I imagine one next time it gets close should be enough to put it off course. . . .


Nuking it could shatter it and simply send multiple fragments at us. That doesn't make it better, though.
2006-01-06, 12:18 PM #13
She's gonna blow!
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2006-01-06, 12:23 PM #14
I have an idea!

We'll ram the Earth into it.
"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"
2006-01-06, 12:25 PM #15
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I can't imagine that being very hard to solve. We've got plenty of nukes, I imagine one next time it gets close should be enough to put it off course. I hope they do it at night.

*edited for grammar*


Our massive weapons of doom will save us!

Eh, I doubt it'll hit, they discover a near flying asteriod of death every few years now. If it does hit though, I hope that volcano in the Canary Islands erupts first, I just want to see the East-coast panic.
nope.
2006-01-06, 12:37 PM #16
Originally posted by JDKNITE188:
Nuking it could shatter it and simply send multiple fragments at us. That doesn't make it better, though.


Usually that idea is only based on 1-2 nukes hitting it and that being it. Instead, if multiple countries launched their own waves of nukes that would blanket the asteroid and once and also some to detonate after the main attack then the fragments could get hit as well.

Can you think of a better way to deplete most of the world's nuke arsenal? :p
"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"
2006-01-06, 12:45 PM #17
They should do that with the moon. It just gets in the way of seeing more nice shiney stars anyways. And we'll deplete nukes worldwide.
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-01-06, 12:48 PM #18
And kill those bloody millions of nocturnal animals.
nope.
2006-01-06, 12:50 PM #19
My money is on the Caldera volcano in Yellowstone being The apocalypse... But Asteroids arn't a half-bad substitute.

As for the nukes, In all seriousness Nukes are unlikely to solve much. If the asteroid has an orbital period of 324 (according to the article) and crosses our orbed, then it must be in a relatively elliptical orbit with earth near it's apoapsis. If that is the case, then simply blasting it with a Nuke anytime it gets near earth will effect very little change in it's orbit, and even if you do blow it into little kibbles, those kibbles will stay on the exact same course.

If this really IS a threat (not saying it is or is not), then the best way to deal with this is to send a craft out to intercept the Asteroid near it's apoapsis, and apply thrust AT the apoapsis to change the orbital period. Unfortunately The launch window for such a mission would be very very small, and might only come around once or twice before the supposed 30 year impact timeframe, and depending on the mass of the asteroid, we still might not be able to effect enough of a change in orbit...

Anyway, My 2 cents.
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condition."... G. K. Chesterton

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2006-01-06, 1:28 PM #20
Originally posted by JDKNITE188:
Nuking it could shatter it and simply send multiple fragments at us. That doesn't make it better, though.


It probably wouldn't do much to it at all. However, it would send it off course, provided we don't procrastinate about it too much. You just have to hit it at the right angle. The required change in orbit would be very, very slight.
2006-01-06, 1:28 PM #21
Conspiracies are fun.
D E A T H
2006-01-06, 1:59 PM #22
We would never fire the nukes correctly or on time because of politics. Someone would sue.
Cordially,
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2006-01-06, 2:32 PM #23
People for the Ethical Treatment of Asteroids >.>
2006-01-06, 2:43 PM #24
Id laugh if this happened

*astroid coming near earth

ZOMG ITS GONNA HIT

*astroid would have missed Earth but nukes move its trajectory

SMACK!

ow my spleen:(
2006-01-06, 4:17 PM #25
So we know it'll hit Overlord's spleen, so technically, Eliminate Overlord - Eliminate the big doom rock.
nope.
2006-01-06, 4:30 PM #26
BOOO!!!!

i demand a meteor that will destroy the planet!
2006-01-06, 5:40 PM #27
Another scenario:

Yecti's wang gets so huge, the earth's rotation gets whacked and we fly into the sun.

Thanks a lot, jerk! :mad:
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2006-01-06, 6:46 PM #28
Originally posted by Bill:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/

Not to worry. We know what to do.


What a ****ty movie cover.
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2006-01-06, 6:56 PM #29
Ooh, I saw this one on the history channel! We just land some spacecraft thingys on the asteroid (which we've done before), and just have them apply thrusters to the rock for a bit. You don't need to move the trajectory that much to keep it from hitting Earth.
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2006-01-06, 8:02 PM #30
Why not just move the earth? You know, pull over, let it pass, then get back on course?
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2006-01-06, 9:05 PM #31
This is all we need to survive:
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2006-01-06, 9:06 PM #32
[QUOTE=Chaz Ghostle]Why not just move the earth? You know, pull over, let it pass, then get back on course?[/QUOTE]

Haven't you seen our bumper sticker?

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2006-01-06, 9:22 PM #33
I'm pretty sure if we get Vin Diesel to do pushups, he would push the world down enough to dodge it.

"The Cold War is over...We Won!"
2006-01-06, 9:33 PM #34
Originally posted by Reid:
This is all we need to survive:


DAMNIT! I was gonna do that.
"His Will Was Set, And Only Death Would Break It"

"None knows what the new day shall bring him"
2006-01-07, 5:42 AM #35
Well, if we have to send someone, I say we send Harrison Ford and Aerosmith.
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah? Well, **** you!'
... I thought I had won."
2006-01-07, 5:50 AM #36
I watched a documentary on asteroids hitting Earth yesterday. Supposedly, we could send various nukes towards the asteroid, but let them explode to the side of it. The way, the shockwave should cause the trajectory to change.
2006-01-07, 6:54 AM #37
Originally posted by Reid:
This is all we need to survive:

The only situation that calls for Bruce Willis to commit suicide.
2006-01-07, 6:57 AM #38
bruce willis is death to the extreme

he saw himself die and dreamt about it all his life.
2006-01-07, 11:24 AM #39
We should send Robert Duvall.... and Morgan Freeman should be president....

Oh... I remember... nobody saw THAT movie...
>>untie shoes
2006-01-07, 1:21 PM #40
I have a theory that Deep Impact is being shown on one channel somewhere in the UK at all times. That movie is on far to much.
nope.
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