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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: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv
DART Ping!......................
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:19:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:23:29 AM PDT
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: Red Badger
Didn’t they read “Lucifer’s Hammer”?/s
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:27:36 AM PDT
by
dynachrome
(“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
To: Red Badger
“colliding with the space rock at about 14,000 miles per hour”
Relative to earth, relative to the space rock, what? All speeds are relative.
To: one guy in new jersey
That’s about the same speed of an AR-15 bullet according to Biden.........................
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:28:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: one guy in new jersey
That’s about the same speed of an AR-15 bullet according to Biden.........................
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:28:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: dynachrome
Good book!
Should have been a movie!.................
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:29:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: jerod
It poses no threat to Earth, until we knock it into a new course, which will hit D.C. Oh wait....
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:30:01 AM PDT
by
ArtDodger
To: Red Badger
sure. it was no threat to earth until you disturbed its orbit, now in 263,000 years it will be on a collision course with us... Cow. Deer. Ewe.
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:32:49 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/26/2022 6:40:14 AM PDT
by
JerseyDvl
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: one guy in new jersey
Does the relative speed really matter? This is pretty extraordinary engineering, given the size of the objects and the distance from the earth. to me, at least.
To: jerod
They are just going to make it mad.
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:11:08 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
To: Red Badger
This is NASA right?? Watch them miss.
Anyone recall the crash of one of the Mars probes when NASA used Meters instead English System measurements?
The Mars Climate Orbiter, built at a cost of $125 million, was a 338-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, Martian atmosphere, and surface changes. In addition, its function was to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor ’98 program for the Mars Polar Lander. The navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Colorado, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet, and pounds. JPL engineers did not take into consideration that the units had been converted, i.e., the acceleration readings measured in English units of pound-seconds^2 for a metric measure of force called newton-seconds^2. In a sense, the spacecraft was lost in translation.
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:13:34 AM PDT
by
OHPatriot
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Red Badger
Slamming into an astroid can have unpredictable results. It could shatter and send fragments in an unwanted direction. Better to send a rocket engine that can be turned on remotely, land it on the astroid, and turn it on at the right time to nudge the Asteroide to a safe path.
By the way, the spellings of astroid came from my speakwrite.
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:17:00 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Red Badger
What else would they deliberately crash into an asteroid?
Lessee, what else do we have laying around up here that's cheaper to launch than a spacecraft designed for the purpose?
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:17:44 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: BitWielder1
Rocks.
They could aim a rock with exterior steering rockets............
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:37:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: JimRed
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:40:50 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: JimRed
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:42:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/26/2022 7:55:13 AM PDT
by
Flatus I. Maximus
(If Black Lives Matter, how do you explain Chicago?)
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