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NASA spacecraft set to intentionally crash into an asteroid to help save Earth
q13fox.com ^ | Sept. 10, 2022 | Heather Brinkmann and Emilee Speck

Posted on 09/11/2022 9:34:36 AM PDT by PROCON

NASA will use a spacecraft later this month to test a planetary-defense method that could one day save Earth.

The Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft, otherwise known as DART, will be used as a battering ram to crash into an asteroid not far from Earth on Sept. 26. The mission is an international collaboration to protect the globe from future asteroid impacts.

"While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense," NASA said Thursday.

In November 2021, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched with DART from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 23, 2021, carrying NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Mission spacecraft. (NASA / FOX Weather)

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; dart; didymoon; didymos; dimorphos; elonmusk; falcon9; nasa; science; spacex
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To: PROCON

Hoping that the scientists and engineers who gave us extinction-level Covid vaccines are not involved with this...


21 posted on 09/11/2022 10:06:41 AM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: PROCON

It’s not going to work.

Scripture tells us that there are at least two asteroid hits coming in earth’s future.


22 posted on 09/11/2022 10:11:14 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: PROCON

Based on Artemis, it will be a complete failure.


23 posted on 09/11/2022 10:11:34 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: metmom

Two? Wormwood and ___?


24 posted on 09/11/2022 10:22:02 AM PDT by null and void (Never suspect dishonest men of making honest mistakes.)
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To: null and void

Wormwood is described and named in verse 10, but verses 7 & 8, the first and second angel, could also be meteor strikes. or a meteor that broke apart before it landed.

Revelation 8:6-10 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.

9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.

Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.

And possibly……

Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;………..


25 posted on 09/11/2022 10:35:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

Ah yes. I shoulda got that. Thanks!


26 posted on 09/11/2022 10:37:54 AM PDT by null and void (Never suspect dishonest men of making honest mistakes.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Must be why they had SpaceX send it up.

In November 2021, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched with DART from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.


27 posted on 09/11/2022 11:29:07 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: PROCON

“While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth,”

That’s right! Knock it out of it’s orbit so it can nail the Earth in the future. How about a name for it. “Wormwood” sounds fine!


28 posted on 09/11/2022 11:41:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: PROCON

Remember this is NASA the joke , we should be worried they’ll screw it up


29 posted on 09/11/2022 11:42:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

They need to let the “Space Junkie” drive.


30 posted on 09/11/2022 1:40:38 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: SuperLuminal

“Hoping that the scientists and engineers who gave us extinction-level Covid vaccines are not involved with this...”:

You will need to get the Asteroid Zeneca vaccine.


31 posted on 09/11/2022 1:47:02 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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Blnk
32 posted on 09/11/2022 2:05:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: PROCON

I used to work in systems support for a company that had a programming system called DART, acronym. Worked very well. Here’s hoping.


33 posted on 09/11/2022 6:45:40 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: PROCON
While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth

Maybe they'll hit a large one causing it to actually breaks up into many aircraft carrier sized chunks, coming in at 30,000 mph, making the earth look like it's been hit by an epic cosmic shotgun blast.

34 posted on 09/11/2022 9:46:56 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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