Here it is. Looks promising, if they can figure out a way to avoid the flying saucer.
Posted on 11/01/2006 7:26:28 AM PST by presidio9
Russia is capable of building machinery to fight the asteroid hazard, Federal Space Agency deputy head Viktor Remishevsky said on Tuesday.
“The Russian missile industry is capable of manufacturing anti-asteroid systems if necessary,” he said. “So far, there are no techniques to use the existent space machinery for fighting asteroids.”
The asteroid danger is not on the Federal Space Agency program. “If a method of suppressing this danger with space machinery is found, we will make such systems. Anyway, the missile industry can do that,” he said.
Asteroids are a problem to be tackled through international cooperation, Remishevsky said. “Research satellites, telescopes and land-based infrastructure of the Russian Academy of Sciences must supply information about the asteroid danger,” he said.
The Applied Astronomy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has identified about 400 asteroids and over 30 comets that may endanger the Earth in the future. Asteroid 2907, which has over one kilometer in diameter, is the largest concern. Experts believe that this asteroid may ram the Earth on December 16, 2880.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has called for comprehensive studies of the asteroid hazard. Scientists will calculate the orbits of no less than 90% of asteroids, whose diameter exceeds one kilometer and which may come close to the Earth under certain circumstances, within the next year.
The Dems want to borrow it to use on John Kerry's ego.
Here it is. Looks promising, if they can figure out a way to avoid the flying saucer.
Russian technology--1980's answers for 21st century problems.
I believe if you rotate the ship quickly while firing it will create a death spiral destroying asteroids and the alien ship.
Which reminds me ... what ever happend to that "end of October" asteroid that some Russian scientist said was going to cause more damage than a Kerry speech?
I find this to be very difficult to believe.
I feel so much safer, now.........
Ever see "Meteor" back in the 80's?.........
This one wasn't as "cheesey" as some others, but it never was a Blockbuster for some reason. At the end, all nations that had nuclear tipped missiles launched one on a tightly controlled sequence to head for the incoming asteroid and explode simultaneously in a great big "we are humanity, hugs all around, feel good" explosion........Never mind the fact that ICBMs aren't made to leave earth orbit.........
LOL
If I remember correctly, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. saved the world by launching their missiles from super-secret orbiting space weapons platforms. I forgot the name of the U.S. system, but the Soviets called theirs "Peter the Great," which I thought was uber cool at the time (when I was a 10-year-old kid).
Further proof that the Russian space tourism program is beginning to pay dividends?
Great. Now, if they could only make a decent appliance and automobile, they may raise their standard of living to what it was for the U.S. in the 1950s.
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