DART Ping!......................
What could possibly go wrong?
Didn’t they read “Lucifer’s Hammer”?/s
“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.
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.
Bump for 7:14 pm viewing
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.
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.
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
Wouldn’t it be funny if this test resulted in this asteroid being redirected and then colliding with the earth? lol
Insane.
People live in Hollywood manufactured delusion.
Those Dimorphians ain’t a-gonna be happy. The dinosaurs tried that one time and look what happened to them.
The asteroid position has now changed and is heading for earth....