This is great;
Let's SEE WHAT HAPPENS if we hit a 4 mile wide comet with a big bomb! Well one thing for certain - pieces of the comet will gain a new trajectory/orbit.
So - lets see if we hit a comet with a celestial hammer if we can knock it off course - maybe we can get it or some of the pieces to swerve into an earth orbit! Great idea!
1 posted on
12/23/2004 9:20:13 AM PST by
Diamond
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To: Diamond
> maybe we can get it or some of the pieces to swerve into an earth orbit!
Not with a measly 800 pound kinetic impactor, you won't.
To: Diamond
Dude. Someone should, like, make a movie about that or something. With, like, oil drillers or something. And a hot chick. Yah.
3 posted on
12/23/2004 9:22:55 AM PST by
Shryke
(My Beeb-o-meter goes all the way to eleven.)
To: Diamond
Sounds like a plot line for a Japanese sci-fi flick.
If we disturb Rodan's eggs there's gonna be hell to pay.
4 posted on
12/23/2004 9:23:26 AM PST by
Rebelbase
(Who is General Chat?)
To: Diamond
5 posted on
12/23/2004 9:23:32 AM PST by
Fiddlstix
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To: Diamond
and yeah, so instead of ONE 4 mile wide piece of space rock, how about 1,000 pieces each averaging about 1,000 feet across to pummel the Earth.
Each piece capable to being a Mega City killer.
yeah smart NASA, really smart I say!!
6 posted on
12/23/2004 9:24:11 AM PST by
prophetic
("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."--Dan Rather)
To: Diamond
At the time of the collision, the comet Tempel 1 will be close enough for astronomers to monitor what happens.This is great; Let's SEE WHAT HAPPENS if we hit a 4 mile wide comet with a big bomb!
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR US TO SEE. This seems like a self fulfilling prophecy of Hollywood!
To: Diamond
This sounds like the opening of a REALLY bad movie...
8 posted on
12/23/2004 9:25:30 AM PST by
mhking
To: Diamond
. . .but how can we blow apart a comet without a pair of special, armored shuttles, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and a lovable crew of red-shirted Oil-rig workers ??
Not to mention without Aerosmith doing a theme song for the mission ????
. . .and in the meantime, a Merry Christmas to all. .
9 posted on
12/23/2004 9:25:37 AM PST by
Salgak
(don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
To: Diamond
The collision may be visible to the eye from earth.
10 posted on
12/23/2004 9:27:45 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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The mission is stated to cost approximately $ 330 million.I buy generic groceries to save $8 so Uncle Sam can throw it at stuff like this.
15 posted on
12/23/2004 9:54:07 AM PST by
newgeezer
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To: Diamond
Now lemmesee. The Tower of Babel was one of man's early bad scientific efforts. The latest worst one may just be the Hammer of NASA. Sometimes I feel like just a little bug at the mercy of the great scientific minds of this world. . you know, the ones who FORGET to comb their hair or put on socks in freezing weather or who want to bust up one big rock into a million unpredictable pieces. Common sense anyone?
17 posted on
12/23/2004 9:59:00 AM PST by
Twinkie
To: Diamond
If comets do turn out to be space ships of highly advanced beings then we're in deep shiite.
22 posted on
12/23/2004 10:11:17 AM PST by
TigersEye
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To: Diamond
"The debris that will be kicked up will reveal, for the very first time, just what a comet is made of."
Rocks and dust, now give me the $330 million they were going to spend.
23 posted on
12/23/2004 10:14:00 AM PST by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
To: Diamond
The mission management team is not sure what they hope or expect to find. Within the team there is already much speculation and even friendly betting. Most are in favor of finding chunks of water ice.If they are interested in finding water ice, there's plenty of places in South Philly where it can be found.....and it won't cost $330 million.
To: Diamond
Hell, that's only about the weight of a big block car engine, and much less mass than say, an air liner crash, I don't think it will be very significant.
33 posted on
12/23/2004 10:59:25 AM PST by
Boiling point
(If God had not meant for man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!)
To: Diamond
34 posted on
12/23/2004 11:01:51 AM PST by
snopercod
(Bigger government means clinton won. Less freedom means Osama won. Get it?)
To: Diamond
So when does Greenpeace plan to launch a "save the comet" campaign?
To: Aeronaut
To: Diamond
This is great; Let's SEE WHAT HAPPENS if we hit a 4 mile wide comet with a big bomb!Guys with cool jobs...
To: Diamond
Scientists at NASA are very eager to know what happens after the impact. In The Douglas Adams Universe, one of the pieces is placed on a new trajectory after the cleaving and heads straight for Earth, impacting it and snuffing out all life on the planet.
If the Dolphins hadn't already left, I'm sure their last message would be "So long and thanks for all the fish."
40 posted on
12/23/2004 11:13:21 AM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
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