[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

ping

[cdcdawg]

Was anything of value lost? JK. NYC being destroyed would be an economic tragedy.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

If only. Too bad it's only a simulation.
 

[Vermont Lt]

Did these guys watch Sudden Impact last week?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Women, children and minorities most impacted.

[Rastus]

Lookit. You use a Goa’uld shuttle to send the thing into hyperspace. Does Samantha Carter have to think of everything? Now, if we can figure out how to just destroy NYC....

[Kirkwood]

"Washington considered sending a nuclear bomb to deflect the 60-meter rock—repeating a successful strategy that saved Tokyo last year— but it was crippled by political disagreements. "

Accurate simulation.

[TigersEye]

Simulations don’t provide adequate training exercises. America deserves better!

[EasySt]

I may need a ride off this rock.

[OrangeHoof]

Simulated women and minorities hardest hit...

[griffin]

Nothing ruins property values more than an impending asteroid strike, except muslimes moving into the neighborhood. Tbats worse.

[norwaypinesavage]

This 'exercise' is nothing but scare mongering. It's so unrealistic that it's not even disguised. The land area of large cities around the world is tiny compared with all the rest of the millions of square miles of totally uninhabited area. The odds of an errant asteroid hitting, not one, but two of the largest cities in the US, is vanishing small. Just think of throwing random darts at a spinning globe of the earth. What are the odds of one of the darts hitting, not one, but two US large cities? Note that the known meteor 'explosions' over the last century, or so, hit mostly uninhabited areas.

The line that indecisiveness prevented a second deflection attempt is equally absurd. It was demonstrated that the first deflection strike actually worked. How could anyone prevent another, especially when the new target is New York City?

[unread]

Gee, I was hoping it would be DC....

[redfreedom]

So in about 8 years there’s a 1% chance that an asteroid will hit earth. OK, but how do they come up with the idea it will hit a major city in the US such as Denver or NYC?

Have they calculated the exact trajectory of the object relative to what part of the earth will be in that path at that exact minute? (keeping in mind the earth is both rotating around the sun and spinning at the same time)

IMO this is climate change grade science at work creating fear. The so called scientists live in their big city democrat bubble and only worry about a rat infested metropolis. If they knew for fact it would hit Rapid City, SD they could care less about those people and worry about the dust fallout drifting towards rat cities.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If it was a simulation, then why couldn’t they tune a few parameters to assure 100% success? How do you program a simulation to predict failure?

I suppose they used Monte Carlo Simulation and ran a hundred thousand simulation runs with a fault tree and assigned probabilities.

The notion of us unintentionally breaking off a chunk of the asteroid which then hits the earth has been around a long time.