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Watch Live as NASA Deliberately Crashes a Spacecraft Into Asteroid Dimorphos
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| Sept. 26, 2022 5:00 a.m. PT
| Jackson Ryan
Posted on 09/26/2022 6:19:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
I don’t know why they’re bothering. Everyone knows that the most effective method of dealing with a dangerous asteroid is to drill a hole 800 feet deep and drop a nuke into it. You have to do it when it is night or dangerous outgassing could thwart the mission
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:20:39 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
(21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Red Badger
Wouldn’t it be funny if this test resulted in this asteroid being redirected and then colliding with the earth? lol
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:28:13 AM PDT
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:31:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Flatus I. Maximus
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:37:59 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: ArtDodger
Then there is the chance that the new course caused it to hit something else(Even bigger) knocking that onto a new course that then hits earth. Think butterfly effect.
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:47:43 AM PDT
by
Revel
To: Red Badger
Insane.
People live in Hollywood manufactured delusion.
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posted on
09/26/2022 9:28:56 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: MikeyB806
The coverage is not clear, but it appears as if a head on collision, or something close to it, is planned/intended. A closing speed of four mile per second will produce quite a kinetic whallop.
To: one guy in new jersey
“colliding with the space rock at about 14,000 miles per hour”
Just enough to budge it in the wrong direction...
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posted on
09/26/2022 1:12:52 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Revel
“Then there is the chance that the new course caused it to hit something else(Even bigger) knocking that onto a new course that then hits earth. Think butterfly effect.”
Yep...
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posted on
09/26/2022 1:13:39 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: JimRed
Or it could make the asteroid angry, come to Earth and ask “ alright. Who threw that?”
To: moovova
Got Linux? The official repository has the same thing labelled as “Maelstrom”.
And another one with superior graphics that plays similar called “Funguloids”.
Fungi is great!
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posted on
09/26/2022 1:21:38 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Red Badger
Those Dimorphians ain’t a-gonna be happy. The dinosaurs tried that one time and look what happened to them.
To: jerod
Didymus gets a ring rather than a moon.
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posted on
09/26/2022 2:19:01 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
(You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
To: Red Badger
Under 10 minutes!
Discovery Channel has it live!
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posted on
09/26/2022 4:07:50 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/26/2022 4:21:27 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
To: Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; Squantos; ...
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posted on
09/26/2022 4:23:40 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
To: All
Pics out of order, sorry.
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posted on
09/26/2022 4:25:30 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:08:27 PM PDT
by
bitt
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To: Red Badger
Rocks. They could aim a rock with exterior steering rockets............
Find a rock of a proper orbit, size, balance and structural integrity, maneuver to catch up and gently dock with it, and then push it to enormous speed to crash it into the asteroid.
Methinks that will require a lot of fuel and be a lot more expensive than what they did.
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:15:49 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Red Badger
The asteroid position has now changed and is heading for earth....
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posted on
09/26/2022 8:39:17 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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