Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
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Posted on 12/27/2019 8:25:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Good catch! My brain is still reeling from the Christmas-eve family & friends crowd...
I’ll bite, why?
One thing we can do, and relatively cheaply, is search, identify and monitor potentially problematic asteroids. Where to draw the line on how hard to search is a cost-benefit question. Their orbits become less predictable over time. Periodically rechecking their positions and orbits will be needed to maintain acceptible advance warning.
Another thing we can and should do is identify one or a few asteroids in very safe orbits (ie. ones we can't perturb into trouble) and test various schemes for changing their orbits. Someday we will find a live one and I don't want to depend on a 'crash course' of last minute government solutions.
lol
I was gonna say same with women but that could lead to trouble.
Yes but how close THIS time (they CAN predict that kind of thing pretty well, and because they dont mention it it sounds like HYPE)
Further ? Non-news item
Even if within 185000 miles (this time) that is just being inside the Moon’s orbit - a huge volume - which has odds (hitting a ~9000mile wide earth) of millions to one.
If it was ANYTHING close they would mention it (and start acting in a comical cartoony Panicing way)
Those that live through it may have unobstructed views of the oceans.
Two hundred foot waves, fire and brimstone could even clean out a dump like SF.
Fear the Taurids
Ask your pHD buddy why all craters show that asteroids hit head-on at 90° impact, never at an angle. ;)
NASA loves to make predictions waaaay into the future, that never happens.
I listened with interest to some of the talk about space force, including that by the President. Did any of it include mention of dealing with extraterrestrial dangers like asteroid and comet strikes?
Not that I am aware of. What I have read speaks to countering hostile nation threats to space operations from the ground, air, and space and for use of space for offensive operations.
The establishment of a unified command with cognizance over the AOA means that there will already be someone to assign the anti-NEO type missions to when the time comes.
Where are those craters? Do you have close up pictures?
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