Catastrophism Ping.
Not if. When......
It’s just a matter of time! Why worry. Be happy.
It is unlikely that an asteroid could hit the earth “again”. Typically, they hit the earth just once.
Does that mean we can start calling liberals "asteroids" ?
There is VATT, out in Arizona. (Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope).
Capture them and mine them
Just ping me far enough ahead of time so I can stock up on chocolate.
fortheluvofpete, don’t let algore see this. he’ll go into hysterics.
So these guys want to play tag with an asteroid? So we can more accurately follow its path? I'm sure it all depends on how much grant monies they're able to squeeze out of various govt's and NGO's; otherwise they'll just have to make do with present technology. The horror.
blam, I know you've done quite a bit of reading/research on catastrophism; I've done a little myself. What puzzles me at this point in my "studies" is there seems to be some theories bandied about that at various times our solar system or our part of the galaxy only occasionally goes through periods of disruption. That is, we are not at the same risk level at all times. That something causes a tremor in the force from time to time. Thoughts?
Dec 21 2012. It is the end of the Mayan Calender. Maybe this will be our demise?
If Hillary becomes president, I hope an asteroid hits to put us out of our misery.
With the state our country is in right now I almost wish an asteroid WOULD strike earth and put us all out of our misery.
my dad had asteroids... sometimes he couldn’t sit down for days.
I’d better move my car.
Can we steer it towards the stadium the next time Michigan and Ohio State play each other in football?
Typically, asteroids orbit the Sun. Current estimates put the total number of asteroids above 1 km in diameter in the solar system to be between 1.1 and 1.9 million.
Fortunately, only a small number of these have an orbit that could ever intersect ours. For the larger of these, it would not be unreasonable to create an unmanned nuclear pulse projection spaceship to push it out of its trajectory, based on the Project Orion spaceship, but with a very different design.
This was a system by which fission or thermonuclear explosives would be detonated about 60 meters away from a very large steel or aluminum push plate to propel the spaceship. Oddly enough, the spaceship design needed giant shock absorbers attached to the push plate, that would also be needed to prevent the asteroid from the possibility of being fractured by the explosion.
Most likely, it would look like two giant metal plates with immense shock absorbers between them. In the middle of the outer plate would be a panel from which to eject the nuclear explosives.
Now granted, weighing in at 1.3 billion tons, a 1 km asteroid will not be greatly moved by even a thermonuclear detonation. But even a tiny movement will be tremendously magnified over the distance the asteroid travels—if it happens far enough away.
Some scientists believe that impacts such as this during the Late Heavy Bombardment period, 4 billion years ago, may have delivered primitive life to Earth.:') Thanks Blam. If they were throwin' rocks at Earth, they must have been primitive. ;') Note to all: the Late Heavy Bombardment idea is a leftover from those primitive times when impacts from space were intellectually confined to the distant, prehuman past.
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