Posted on 03/01/2022 7:44:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
For a few tense days in January of this year, astronomers were tracking a Near-Earth Object cruising towards Earth with its trajectory showing it hitting the planet in 2023, when it mysteriously changed course. The asteroid dubbed 2022 AE1 was on course to hit Earth on July 4, 2023, with astronomers predicting real damage to a local area.
The asteroid was moving so fast that there was not enough time to attempt deflection and the European Space Agency (ESA) said that, worryingly, the chance of impact appeared to increase based on the first seven days of observations. The first observations were followed by a dramatic week 'in the dark' as the full Moon outshone the potential impactor.
When the Moon moved away, the telescope looked again, only to find the chance of impact was dramatically falling. Since then, it has been confirmed that 2022 AE1 will not impact Earth and has been removed from ESA's risk list.
Astronomers said that several asteroids often appear risky during initial observations, get riskier, and then suddenly become entirely safe. "As is often the case, the overlap with Earth remains even while the risk corridor gets smaller due to further observations and so the risk appears to increase. More often than not, as the hazard zone narrows, the small potential corridor moves off Earth and the risk suddenly drops," ESA said in a statement.
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Some folks just never get decimal points.
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National government space programs move at the speed of bureaucracy. NASA is just a weird hybrid of corporate welfare and a jobs program split across 50 states so all the states can feast on taxpayer money. No private entity could afford such foolishness and survive. That is why SpaceX runs circles around NASA and everybody else.
I think it is time to cut NASA down to doing just space exploration and forbidding them from contracting with vendors to design and build technology from scratch. The best way to advance space exploration is to use awards to whatever vendor that can prove they can accomplish the mission with actual working hardware. If the technology needed is still in the early stages of development they can used phased award contracts based on development benchmarks and to switch between vendors as they move the technology along.
NASA has been prove to be too inflexible, bureaucratic and incompetent to be part of the actual technology designs.
It got a glimpse of Chuck Norris.
In fact science is the concept of observing something under controlled conditions for a specified time to see what it does and then recording that. Once you have done that several times you now have accumulated data.
It is at that point that science drops from the objective to the subjective. Because now you have to decide what the data means.
Original calculations must have been performed in metric units
People, I cannot shriek it loud enough -
THIS IS HOW YOU DESTROY GLOBAL WARMING AS A LEFTIST BATTERING RAM.
She needs to think about 3D printing, or invest in a Darth Vader helmet.
Space aliens helping us out?
I’ve never believed in UFO’s until I saw the tic face videos recently released. Now I’m watching Chis Lehto’s YouTube channel.
Tic tac, not tic face. FGS. :)
I’ll put off reading it until Tuesday.
WAY too many things had to align for the big bang to be the reason it happened.
So there was an explosion out of nothing for creation to begin?
How does that work?
Hmmm...
Believe the gubment about climate?
Believe the gubment about chicom virus?
Believe the gubment about asteroids?
Tough way to start the week...
We can send Bruce Willis.
I think women being medically disfigured by plastic surgery has turned into a cultural token of wealth by the extremely rich. Even though their disfigure face place them in the "uncanny Valley" everybody knows they had to have a lot of money to be able to do that to themselves so it sets them apart. It is similar to how ancient elites used cranial deformation to separate themselves from the commoners and slaves.
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BFD its time for a reset here anyways
Rush you old wind bag sob thanks for kicking it out of the way
But then ...
We put up the Hubble Telescope. All the naysayers predicted that when we see really far out in space (and by extension see really far back in time) we'll observe a universe that was expanding much quicker than it is now. (The idea is that the universe's expansion gradually slows to eventually start contracting on itself so it can have another big bang.) But that's not what we observed. What we observed is that the further back in time you go, the slower the universe's expansion was. In other words, the expansion is accelerating, not decelerating.
Basically, and to back up your point, the big bang was a one time event. The naysayers tell us to "trust the science" except for when science says God exists.
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