Posted on 11/05/2016 12:55:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The exercise, held in El Segundo, brought together representatives from NASA, FEMA, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Department of Energy's national laboratories, the Air Force and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, JPL officials said in the statement.
It was the third such exercise; previous ones had allowed for a deflection mission, but in this simulation, there was too little time for that type of response.
"It is critical to exercise these kinds of low-probability but high-consequence disaster scenarios," FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said in the statement. "By working through our emergency response plans now, we will be better prepared if and when we need to respond to such an event."
The asteroid in this test scenario appeared to be between 300 and 800 feet (100 to 250 meters) long in the first simulated measurements the participants were given. At first, the probability of a 2020 impact was only 2 percent, but as the group continued to simulate tracking it over time and the fictional months went by, the impact probability rose to 65 percent and then 100 percent, in May 2017. By November of that year, in the scenario, they found that it would hit across Southern California or nearby in the Pacific Ocean.
The research laboratories' scientists calculated the impact's footprint, the population that would be displaced, the effect on infrastructure and other data that would slowly become clear over such an asteroid's approach. That gave the participants the information they needed to plan for an evacuation process, and decide how to convey necessary information to the public in the most effective way over the course of the asteroid's approach...
"The high degree of initial uncertainty, coupled with the relatively long impact warning time, made this scenario unique and especially challenging for emergency managers,"
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
FEMA would build internment camps.
ASTROID PROBLEM SOLVED.
Nowadays fedgov would just kill everyone beforehand so they wouldnt have to die by the asteroid. Would demand a thank you before doing so.
My initial thought, as well. But shouldn’t it trigger enough earthquakes on the California faults to have the same effect? And then the dust would cause more crop damage worldwide than the water impact would.
I always wondered if ATTs symbol was copied from the “death star” of Star Wars or if they thought ATT was the perfect symbol for a “death star.
The “Death Star” kills you quickly, ATT does it one month at a time.
The girls seem to have paid attention, but the colored boy seems a bit weak on the concept.
We were closer to a major target, I suppose. We just went out in the hallways and sat on the floor, knees drawn up, head between knees, hands clasped behind neck.
Scientifically bad, geologically bad, script bad with the exception of Bruce Willis hitting golf balls at a Greenpeace ship, I liked that part, orbital dynamics not real, fuel burn required to reach the asteroid in time would have required to put a supertanker in orbit, the pieces of the asteroid that hit the earth would have been worse, but what the hell I enjoyed it and his screen daughter in the movie was hot. :)
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