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Topic	Let's say hippothetically the movie Armageddon starts happening right now
AngelsNAirwav3s 11/14/18 5:33:31 PM #30:	Touch posted... DuranOfForcena posted... CommonJoe posted... AngelsNAirwav3s posted... Last I heard of the NASA plan was a few years ago, but we would probably know the asteroid is coming years or decades in advance. The plan would then be to send a big satellite out to sit next to the asteroid for years, slowly altering the path via gravitational pull between the asteroid and satellite. Altering the path by just a tiny fraction of a degree when it is travelling that huge distance would cause it to miss. This. But in a short term emergency the best course would be successive nuking. Blast it apart and keep blasting each fragment until theyre small enough to uust burn in the atmosphere. May end up irradiating most of the planet but that can be dealt with somewhat. Cant really recover if an Armageddon type asteroid is 18 days away. yeah but the thing is, there would never be a "short term emergency" scenario in the case of an asteroid impact on earth. it would never get down to such a ridiculously small timeframe as only 18 days until impact. we have the methods of observing spacetime out for almost unimaginable distances, and the astrophysical math and science to figure out the trajectories of pretty much any object we see, all the way backward and forward in time in the object's observable lifespan. Man. What a time to live in. I always theorized that if something like the size of a planet was coming at us and we had no chance, NASA would keep it secret for decades to keep from causing mass panic, and the public would only find out with a couple week notice that the world was ending --- Hello world! <cite>AngelsNAirwav3s posted [p:912408787] in Let's say ... [t:77202012]...</cite> <quote><cite>Touch posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DuranOfForcena posted...</cite> <quote><cite>CommonJoe posted...</cite> <quote><cite>AngelsNAirwav3s posted...</cite> <quote>Last I heard of the NASA plan was a few years ago, but we would probably know the asteroid is coming years or decades in advance. The plan would then be to send a big satellite out to sit next to the asteroid for years, slowly altering the path via gravitational pull between the asteroid and satellite. Altering the path by just a tiny fraction of a degree when it is travelling that huge distance would cause it to miss.</quote> This. But in a short term emergency the best course would be successive nuking. Blast it apart and keep blasting each fragment until theyre small enough to uust burn in the atmosphere. May end up irradiating most of the planet but that can be dealt with somewhat. Cant really recover if an Armageddon type asteroid is 18 days away.</quote> yeah but the thing is, there would never be a "short term emergency" scenario in the case of an asteroid impact on earth. it would never get down to such a ridiculously small timeframe as only 18 days until impact. we have the methods of observing spacetime out for almost unimaginable distances, and the astrophysical math and science to figure out the trajectories of pretty much any object we see, all the way backward and forward in time in the object's observable lifespan.</quote> Man. What a time to live in.</quote> I always theorized that if something like the size of a planet was coming at us and we had no chance, NASA would keep it secret for decades to keep from causing mass panic, and the public would only find out with a couple week notice that the world was ending --- Hello world!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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