Posted on 05/03/2021 5:12:09 PM PDT by algore
NASA scientists have concluded that even a nuclear bomb wouldn't be able to stop a giant asteroid from destroying a huge chunk of earth.
In a simulated exercise, US and European scientists were told they had six months to come up with a lifesaving plan to stop a massive rock smashing into earth that had been spotted 35 million miles away.
The study was conducted over the course of four days, from April 26 through April 29, and astronomers used radar systems, data imaging and other technologies like the world's largest telescope.
Scientists determined that six months is not enough time to prepare a spacecraft to smash into the asteroid and that a nuclear bomb - like in the film Armageddon - would not take the monster space rock down.
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Just as long as it wipes out China.
It would certainly solve the climate change problem.
Lotsa ifs.
Its ignorant to say multple nukes couldnt affect an asteroid. Too many factors to consider to definitively say no.
In other words, file “the world ends in collision with meteor” in the lengthy list of things not worth worrying about.
Not even a Russian-built Tsar Bomba?
Then we are doomed.... DOOMED, I said! Run for your lives!
Oh, wait...
Not to worry..Fauci has the answer.
But don’t stop working on climate “change.” More plant burgers?
My first thought. Can I kiss up Liv while her dad’s sappy song plays in the background?
Calling Captain Obvious.
Changing the course or mass of an asteroid is difficult, speeding it up however might be plausible. If the lump of rock was going to hit us then speeding it up by just a fraction of a percent might allow it to pass ahead of our orbit and miss. Attaching a big enough engine might be an issue.
Alternatively attach two devices, one to speed up its rotation and another to hit it with a seismic pulse could cause it to break up.
Wait! You man life doesn’t work like in the movies?
“Too many factors to consider to definitively say no.”
A single nuke could deflect an asteroid. Or break it up into something less existential.
And to say the entire planet could not come up with the rocket to get it done in six months is ludicrous.
Empty prognostication just to keep everyone employed. It will not happen, and if it does, we will not be here to post about it.
“As long as you wear yer maks and communicate to the asteroid that it must practice safe social distancing, the asteroid will pass no closer than six feet of the surface of the earth.”
And remember...they dialed back the yield to give the plane a better chance. It could have been up to 100 megatons.
“The team used image data collected in 2014 of the asteroid’s previous close approach to Earth.”
If we new the orbit, it wouldn’t be ‘suddenly found’ 35,000,000 miles away.
Only problem with man made nukes is they simply aren’t that big.
Masks will protect us.
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