Asteroid may hit earth in 2019

EmperorSolo51 · Post by **EmperorSolo51** » 2002-07-24 10:38pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2147879.stm

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-07-24 10:50pm

Yeah, I've heard that.

Guess my 46th birthday is ruined.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-07-24 10:51pm

Game over man....Game Over....

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-07-24 11:30pm

"The error in our knowledge of where NT7 will be on 1 February, 2019, is large, several tens of millions of kilometres," he said.

In astronomy, the error is in the exponent. Basically, the calculation showed up as "Earth plus or minus 10 million kilometers."

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-25 12:22am

EmperorSolo51 wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2147879.stm

We'll shoot you up there with a stick of TNT to blow it up.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-07-25 01:54am

With this much lead time, we already have the technology to divert this asteroid if necessary. Some very high-yield nukes using stand-off detonations will boil off plasma from the facing side, thus creating a propulsive effect (the ablation acts like a rocket). You can "push" an asteroid in this manner, and a lot of high-yield nukes long in advance would knock this asteroid off-course.

The real trick is to figure out whether it is, in fact, going to hit us. It would be a real kick in the balls to change its course with a stand-off detonation and then figure out that it wasn't going to hit us anyway (or worse yet, that we just diverted it into a collision course).

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-07-25 11:25am

Yeah, I've heard that.

Guess my 46th birthday is ruined.

I didnt give it much thought, but I will be 48.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2002-07-25 11:31am

Now more than ever we need a death star

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2002-07-25 11:35am

Darth Wong wrote:With this much lead time, we already have the technology to divert this asteroid if necessary. Some very high-yield nukes using stand-off detonations will boil off plasma from the facing side, thus creating a propulsive effect (the ablation acts like a rocket). You can "push" an asteroid in this manner, and a lot of high-yield nukes long in advance would knock this asteroid off-course.

The real trick is to figure out whether it is, in fact, going to hit us. It would be a real kick in the balls to change its course with a stand-off detonation and then figure out that it wasn't going to hit us anyway (or worse yet, that we just diverted it into a collision course).

That being said, we need a way to get these weapons into high orbit. We don't have any platforms that can carry a decent sized warhead and propulsion/guidance up there. I suppose we could try a multiple-stage plan, lifting them initially with the Space Shuttle, then lifting up fuel pods, then attaching both to the Shuttle to go high enough.

Aqua · Post by **Aqua** » 2002-07-25 01:27pm

Yeah, I saw this earlier. I'll be *umm* pretty old when that happens.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2002-07-25 02:41pm

Aqua wrote:Yeah, I saw this earlier. I'll be *umm* pretty old when that happens.

Good, thank you for volunteering to be the guy with the big ol' nuke who goes up and goes boom.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-07-25 02:59pm

Dangit, I'll never see my grandma live to be 109! Well, we have plenty of time to prepare, and most people still have unused shelters from the Y2K scare, and we have the technology, so what's to worry besides a giant rock hitting the planet and us all?

EmperorSolo51 · Post by **EmperorSolo51** » 2002-07-25 03:43pm

I do stress It may miss us by millions of Miles.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/07/2 ... index.html

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2002-07-25 03:46pm

SirNitram wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:With this much lead time, we already have the technology to divert this asteroid if necessary. Some very high-yield nukes using stand-off detonations will boil off plasma from the facing side, thus creating a propulsive effect (the ablation acts like a rocket). You can "push" an asteroid in this manner, and a lot of high-yield nukes long in advance would knock this asteroid off-course.

The real trick is to figure out whether it is, in fact, going to hit us. It would be a real kick in the balls to change its course with a stand-off detonation and then figure out that it wasn't going to hit us anyway (or worse yet, that we just diverted it into a collision course).
That being said, we need a way to get these weapons into high orbit. We don't have any platforms that can carry a decent sized warhead and propulsion/guidance up there. I suppose we could try a multiple-stage plan, lifting them initially with the Space Shuttle, then lifting up fuel pods, then attaching both to the Shuttle to go high enough.

Maybe you could boost the largest things into orbit with the remaining Energia rockets (if any are left), a bunch of Titan 4Bs and Protons, but that's iffy. Then use the Orbiter for assembly.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2002-07-25 05:20pm

damn, if we fuck this up...
gg earth
LMAO

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-07-25 05:57pm

Relax. Bruce Willis should still be alive, then.

John · Post by **John** » 2002-07-25 09:23pm

It is my impression that neutron flux is the main source of heat for the vaporization effects that might divert an asteroid. If that is true, would a high yield bomb be necessary? Or am I way off base here?

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2002-07-25 10:37pm

I know exactly what we can do to make the mean old asteroid go away!
First, we get a microwave, then we put balls of tin foil in the microwave!
This will create a phased micron burst that will activeate a subspace field to lower the mass of the asteroid, so we can move it at warp speed. Then after we do that, we can use a modified tachyon pulse to do something else to the asteroid, then, finally, we use a phase inhibitor wrench to beat the asteroid up, and inhibit it's phase. After all this is done, we can use a quantum ion phase accelerator to blow up the asteroid by phasing its metreon flux, causing it to convert suddenly to neutrons on the quantum level. This is all accomplished by putting balls of tin foil into a microwave.
Woo! Cant you tell i'm bored?
Technobabble must die

John · Post by **John** » 2002-07-25 10:47pm

That's humor...I recognize that.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2002-07-26 01:35am

I hope it lands on the godless Chinese, to show them that Jesus is on our side.

Meghel · Post by **Meghel** » 2002-07-26 04:17am

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:I hope it lands on the godless Chinese, to show them that Jesus is on our side.

This is Blasphemy!

A true believer would never say such a thing.

And even if it lands on the Chinese, the rest of the world is probably screwed as well. Including YOU.

Meghel

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-07-26 04:40am

Perhaps it hits the moon and then both go down on ol Earth.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2002-07-26 04:53am

No, Jesus will protect the faithful from the ice age created by the ashes of the incinerated heathens.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-07-26 04:57am

If Jesus steers the nuke-missile equipped shuttle to that asteroid and blows it up, yes.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-26 09:27am

Why not wapourize it?

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