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 ...
Run for your lives.
We’re all gonna die.
George Bush’s fault.
News at 11.
I wonder if they discussed a “peacetime strategy” vs. a “wartime strategy.”
Women, children and minorities hardest hit.
Hide in their superbunkers and say screw the rest of us
What a colossal waste of time and money. Who are they trying to kid? Their first and only priority would be to get themselves and the “elites” into a secure underground shelter somewhere far away from the impact.
Interesting scenario. I wonder whether a land hit or an offshore hit would cause more harm.
Full reverse on the thrusters. STAT!
That was a stupid movie.
Maybe they can alter its path just enough to nail Mecca
Sea probably. The tsunamis would be global.
Better than whiny deep impact.
Hilarious from hitting golf balls at greenpeace to the road runner coyote joke to Buscemi shooting the Gatling gun and getting tied up.
A hilariously stupid movie. Good science? Hell no. Good buddy action comedy movie? One of the best.
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>> “RBF queen” <<
Root Beer Float queen?
Alright!
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A root beer float sweetened with two ounces of 100 proof vodka...and then hope she turns cuddly instead of snarly.
El Segundo? Seriously?
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