move the earth. there was a crazy idea going around that if u explode all the bombs in the world on one side of the earth it may move it out of orbit… may have been a russian idea…
Weary-Amoeba1808 on
People couldn’t even put a piece of cloth over their face to prevent a deadly disease. I have 0 faith that we’ll be able to come together and defend from an asteroid. Especially when half of the people on this planet will deny its existence.
HumansMustBeCrazy on
It will take a major population center getting hit by an asteroid.
Then enough influential people will start to care about asteroid defense.
DexicJ on
I mean this was the whole premise of Dont Look Up… we all just die due to incompetence
LibrarianWizard on
At this point, I am really rooting for this asteroid.
NuggetKing9001 on
Counter argument, can we not attempt to, and just hard reset the planet?
verbmegoinghere on
Until recently we had zero capability to deflect anything larger then a 100m asteroid.
We’re talking millions of tons.
However since falcon 9 and soon to be starship with rapid reusability it now changes the calculus. Not to mention the missions over the last 20 years to various asteroids ie pysche being a good example. There was even one one, starts with D that we tested moving an asteroids orbit (from around another asteroid) several million kilometres away.
For the last twenty years we’ve predominantly focused on creating an early warning system because calculating the orbits of asteroids years in advance is exceedingly hard (see the 3 body problem, and no I’m not talking about the show)
David-Puddy on
Clearly, you train oil riggers to go to space, much easier than training astronauts to drill
Common_Senze on
An oil drilling crew in space and NOT training the astronauts
_Mudlark on
How has nobody said the obvious?
A crack team of oil-drillers.
WileyCoyote7 on
Thoughts and prayers maybe? It’s what people send after natural disasters anyway…
BaseballParking9182 on
Drill teams trained as astronauts, as opposed to astronaut’s being showed how to hold a drill
the_replicator on
A sharpie has proven to be quite useful against hurricanes, so why not try an asteroid?
SaltyDolphin78 on
At this point, i prefer the asteroid. I’m actually wondering if NASA could redirect one TOWARDS Earth right before Elon Musk takes control of our space program.
Accomplished-Snow213 on
Trump claimed only he can fix things. So we launch him at the asteroid. Gravitational deflection or high speed impact. Either would do nicely.
ZeDominion on
People probably won’t take it seriously until the very last moment. Kind of like what’s happening now with global politics..
yourMommaKnow on
NASA will have to recruit a team of deep-core drillers, including Harry Stamper and his daughter’s fiancé A.J. Frost to land on the asteroid and detonate a nuclear warhead.
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move the earth. there was a crazy idea going around that if u explode all the bombs in the world on one side of the earth it may move it out of orbit… may have been a russian idea…
People couldn’t even put a piece of cloth over their face to prevent a deadly disease. I have 0 faith that we’ll be able to come together and defend from an asteroid. Especially when half of the people on this planet will deny its existence.
It will take a major population center getting hit by an asteroid.
Then enough influential people will start to care about asteroid defense.
I mean this was the whole premise of Dont Look Up… we all just die due to incompetence
At this point, I am really rooting for this asteroid.
Counter argument, can we not attempt to, and just hard reset the planet?
Until recently we had zero capability to deflect anything larger then a 100m asteroid.
We’re talking millions of tons.
However since falcon 9 and soon to be starship with rapid reusability it now changes the calculus. Not to mention the missions over the last 20 years to various asteroids ie pysche being a good example. There was even one one, starts with D that we tested moving an asteroids orbit (from around another asteroid) several million kilometres away.
For the last twenty years we’ve predominantly focused on creating an early warning system because calculating the orbits of asteroids years in advance is exceedingly hard (see the 3 body problem, and no I’m not talking about the show)
Clearly, you train oil riggers to go to space, much easier than training astronauts to drill
An oil drilling crew in space and NOT training the astronauts
How has nobody said the obvious?
A crack team of oil-drillers.
Thoughts and prayers maybe? It’s what people send after natural disasters anyway…
Drill teams trained as astronauts, as opposed to astronaut’s being showed how to hold a drill
A sharpie has proven to be quite useful against hurricanes, so why not try an asteroid?
At this point, i prefer the asteroid. I’m actually wondering if NASA could redirect one TOWARDS Earth right before Elon Musk takes control of our space program.
Trump claimed only he can fix things. So we launch him at the asteroid. Gravitational deflection or high speed impact. Either would do nicely.
People probably won’t take it seriously until the very last moment. Kind of like what’s happening now with global politics..
NASA will have to recruit a team of deep-core drillers, including Harry Stamper and his daughter’s fiancé A.J. Frost to land on the asteroid and detonate a nuclear warhead.