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Nasa Wants To Capture An Asteroid (By Golly, Those Geniuses at NASA)
Telegraph ^ | March 26, 2014 | David Milward

Posted on 03/26/2014 5:19:39 PM PDT by lbryce

The American space agency wants to work out how it can grab an asteroid or at least a large chunk of one.

Corralling a large piece of space rock is a key part of the agency’s Asteroid Grand Challenge and the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

Despite the damage caused by a meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk last year, Nasa believes the earth is safe from an asteroid collision for at least a century.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: asteroid; catastrophism; davidmilward; goldbugs; nasa; planetarydefense; spaceexploration
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Mechanical arms or even a big bag may be used to grab an asteroid and bring it to earth.

Even a big bag.

How sad. How very, very sad. It's all gone, gone, gone. The exhiliaration of that magnificent beast, the greatest technological achievement ever, lifting off the in a slow rise to the heavens, the power, the raw power thundering across the landscape, rising in unparalleled beauty and grace, the very testament to American ingenuity, technology, the late great Saturn V, gave us the reason to dream but now it's all gone, not even to dream. Along with the moon bases, lunar vacation plans, missions to Mars, accelerated exploration of the planets, Europa, Titan, new rocket technology, warp drive, now all we've got left in the NASA Really, Really Big Plans is just this one big, empty FOOKING Bag, a couple of fatwas, a Muslim shutting it all down.

For shame. An unmitigated outright disgrace.

So, NASA wants to corral in an asteroid. Well, too bad. The fatwa against asteroid capture has already been enabled. Some Islamic huckster in Boise, Idaho has forbidden any such thing as of this morning. So, NASA, find yourself something else to do.

And next time, go with a less pompous mission title, like maybe Asteroid Corral 'Em Up, instead of Asteroid Grand Challenge and the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

1 posted on 03/26/2014 5:19:39 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

Is this a Muslim asteroid?


2 posted on 03/26/2014 5:20:21 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Definitely. That is,if it’s on a collision course with Earth.


3 posted on 03/26/2014 5:21:58 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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I’ve got a nasty proposal on how to capture a small asteroid.

Send Michele FLOTUS up into space. Let her use her substantial bottom to grab the asteroid (much like that gatormouth-rocket grabbed the astronauts in the James Bond film). Then bring them both back to earth, or just bring back the asteroid and leave the leftist hemorrhoid in orbit.

She could be our second moon.


4 posted on 03/26/2014 5:24:39 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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“Let her use her substantial bottom to grab the asteroid (much like that gatormouth-rocket grabbed the astronauts in the James Bond film)”

Don’t even need to do that, her booty probably has enough gravitational pull to reel in any number of celestial objects.


5 posted on 03/26/2014 5:28:36 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: VRW Conspirator

Since NASA’s new assignment by zippy the a##clown on how to convince the world that the subhuman muslims are really fun loving religious people of faith, we shoudl tell them that the asteroid is really allahs mother ship and we can help them reach it


6 posted on 03/26/2014 5:32:24 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Im missing a jumbo jet with 235 passengers has anyone seen it?)
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"Nasa believes the earth is safe from an asteroid collision for at least a century"

Based on what, exactly? Sounds like something they pulled from their asteroids.

7 posted on 03/26/2014 5:39:05 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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How does that further muslim outreach.
8 posted on 03/26/2014 5:40:41 PM PDT by mountainlion
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To: ronnie raygun

Just trying to think scientifically here...With there not being any gravity in space, (much like the White Hut), we could take an infinite length piece of rope into space and lasso the asteroid as it passes the earth.

We could call the space vehicle that is used to lasso the asteroid., Camel-1.


9 posted on 03/26/2014 5:45:14 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Why is that I envision NASA under obamaramadingdong sending out an astronaut with a catchers mitt!


10 posted on 03/26/2014 5:48:01 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: lbryce

Could they capture a bigfoot instead?


11 posted on 03/26/2014 6:07:25 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: VRW Conspirator

If Obama want’s it captured, it is probably a Jewish settlement or a White Majority Democracy.


12 posted on 03/26/2014 6:14:32 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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Russia is holding us hostage with Astronaut launches and retrievals ($71 million, if they even agree to do it now that Obama has poked them with his sickly finger).

Had Obama not allowed the Space Shuttle to go into forced retirement before a good replacement was operational, that would be one less thing Putin would be holding over us and our weakly little Kenyan.


13 posted on 03/26/2014 6:17:28 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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Nasa is all about muslim outreach and global warming these days. My how we have fallen.


14 posted on 03/26/2014 6:36:57 PM PDT by equalator
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To: Antihero101607

“Celestrial objects”> Hmmmm!. I wonder how many Hollywood stars (celestrial objects) and journalists (media stars) you’ll find in there.

Maybe a few Klingons too!


15 posted on 03/26/2014 6:54:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: righttackle44

Barack married a Bigfoot. No need to find one in space.

Just go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC, stand outside the barred cage (i.e. fence) and look in. Bring peanuts and carrots. She is a vegan Bigfoot.


16 posted on 03/26/2014 6:57:21 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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I know! Let's use a chunk of aerogel to capture micrometeorites and return them to earth.

Who needs a big rock?

17 posted on 03/26/2014 9:23:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: lbryce; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks lbryce. Prospecting, and planetary defense ping.

18 posted on 03/26/2014 10:10:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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Wants to capture an asteroid? When they cannot even send a single guy into space? What a joke. Maybe the Chinese will do it while they colonize Mars.


19 posted on 03/26/2014 10:58:28 PM PDT by Rockpile
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“Based on what ...”

Based on current observations of known asteroids - thus, they “believe”, not “guarantee”.

20 posted on 03/27/2014 4:43:38 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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