Asteroid likely to hit Earth Feb. 1, 2019

[Semidevil]

nah, in 17 years, We would already have created a force field to block stuff like that....haha.

 

[kami]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: kami

Originally posted by: SuperCyrix

astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide

I don't think we'll have any problems nuking that thing to a billion pieces if it gets too close.

I dunno..you sure about that? Just think of the velocity the thing has...2km wide rock travelling at that incredible speed has a lot energy...a few puny nukes isn't gonna stop it from moving. You'd have to probably drill in like the movies

You don't have to stop it. Hit it far enough out and all you need to do is give it a tiny shove to change it's trajectory.

Are the nukes that powerful? Any physics people here that could give us some numbers? I doubt it somehow..

 

[RU482]

Dammit, I had really big plans for Feb 2, 2019 too

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: kami

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: kami

Originally posted by: SuperCyrix

astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide

I don't think we'll have any problems nuking that thing to a billion pieces if it gets too close.

I dunno..you sure about that? Just think of the velocity the thing has...2km wide rock travelling at that incredible speed has a lot energy...a few puny nukes isn't gonna stop it from moving. You'd have to probably drill in like the movies

You don't have to stop it. Hit it far enough out and all you need to do is give it a tiny shove to change it's trajectory.

Are the nukes that powerful? Any physics people here that could give us some numbers? I doubt it somehow..

It takes very little energy to deflect an object in space. The shockwave from a large nuclear explosion would move a 2K rock more than enough to miss the Earth.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Anyway, hope it hits, want to see how much damage it would cause.

Well sure! But only if it lands over there in wooden shoe land

Ok with me! Maybe we'd finally get some mountains here!

What good are mountains when you're living in the great depression?

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: kami

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: kami

Originally posted by: SuperCyrix

astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide

I don't think we'll have any problems nuking that thing to a billion pieces if it gets too close.

I dunno..you sure about that? Just think of the velocity the thing has...2km wide rock travelling at that incredible speed has a lot energy...a few puny nukes isn't gonna stop it from moving. You'd have to probably drill in like the movies

You don't have to stop it. Hit it far enough out and all you need to do is give it a tiny shove to change it's trajectory.

Are the nukes that powerful? Any physics people here that could give us some numbers? I doubt it somehow..

Haven't you guys ever played Outpost? All we'll do is break it into 2 smaller parts, which will somehow cause even MORE damage...

 

[kami]

It takes very little energy to deflect an object in space. The shockwave from a large nuclear explosion would move a 2K rock more than enough to miss the Earth.

then I guess there's nothin to worry about

 

[kami]

Non-nuclear asteroid deflection

Seems kinda far-fetched, but interesting.

 

[zeon]

actually theres very little chance of this asteroid actually hitting the earth. it only has a rating of 0.06 currently on the palermo scale (a technical scale used to measure the chance of an asteroid or other non terrestrial body hitting the earth.) wich i think means rougly equivalent to their being a 1 in 100000 chance that it will actually hit us. however later on in its orbit it's far more likely, like past 2050.

 

[kduncan5]

Well, if they do confirm a collision course, we'll have 17 years to either develop a means to divert it from its collision course, blow it out of existence while it's still far enough away that it will cause no direct/indirect damage to Earth, or to develop a warp drive to get the hell off this planet!!!:Q -kd5-

 

[kami]

Originally posted by: kduncan5
Well, if they do confirm a collision course, we'll have 17 years to either develop a means to divert it from its collision course, blow it out of existence while it's still far enough away that it will cause no direct/indirect damage to Earth, or to develop a warp drive to get the hell off this planet!!!:Q -kd5-

well, even if it DID hit...it wouldn't be the end. you would need like a 10km rock to do that. if one of those hit, impact would be 15 billion times that of a nuke. whatever isn't consumed by the heatblast, widespread firestorms and tsunami tidal waves, will eventually die off since the sun will be blocked out. cool eh?

 

[stormbv]

I hope it hits earth...preferably, somewhere near me, so I die instantly.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: zeon
actually theres very little chance of this asteroid actually hitting the earth. it only has a rating of 0.06 currently on the palermo scale (a technical scale used to measure the chance of an asteroid or other non terrestrial body hitting the earth.) wich i think means rougly equivalent to their being a 1 in 100000 chance that it will actually hit us. however later on in its orbit it's far more likely, like past 2050.

So I have better odds of being wiped out of existence by an asteroid than I do at winning the lottery? You aren't helping...

 

[HombrePequeno]

We could always strap a few NERVA rocket engines on it a deflect it away.

 

[kduncan5]

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Originally posted by: kduncan5
Well, if they do confirm a collision course, we'll have 17 years to either develop a means to divert it from its collision course, blow it out of existence while it's still far enough away that it will cause no direct/indirect damage to Earth, or to develop a warp drive to get the hell off this planet!!! -kd5-
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From: kami

well, even if it DID hit...it wouldn't be the end. you would need like a 10km rock to do that. if one of those hit, impact would be 15 billion times that of a nuke. whatever isn't consumed by the heatblast, widespread firestorms and tsunami tidal waves, will eventually die off since the sun will be blocked out. cool eh?




Sorry, just trying to add a little humor.....

Actually, this rather reminds me of the book "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. -kd5-

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: kduncan5


Actually, this rather reminds me of the book "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. -kd5-

IMHO the best end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it book ever.

 

[Nefrodite]

Yay! mammals will be wipped out and the earth can start anew

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Anyway, hope it hits, want to see how much damage it would cause.

Well sure! But only if it lands over there in wooden shoe land

Ok with me! Maybe we'd finally get some mountains here!

What good are mountains when you're living in the great depression?

If you mean the crater the impact will give: Won't be that big.
If you mean the constant depressions I have: Makes it easier to decide on 'abseiling' without security rope.

 

[Nefrodite]

maybe it'll smack into the moon..shatter it and create a ring around our planet

 

[Mustangrrl]

I love how some of you guys are like "I'll be 40 by then, so..." like it won't be so bad if earth is wiped clean (or wiped out) because you'll be so old, you had lived full lives LOL
~robyn

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

We shouldn't intervene if it will hit the planet and we can stop it, cause we might alter God's plan!

Maybe he wants to kill us all! Otherwise he'll make sure nothing would happen to us in the first place. If it doesn't threaten the planet anyway it was just a test to see if people on ATOT would stop f@pping long enough to argue about it.

 

[Random Variable]

<sigh>

The title of the BBC article is "Space rock 'on collision course'" and you nitpick MY title?

If you actually read the article, the title the BBC chose is misleading.

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

Dr Yeomans said the world would have to get used to finding more objects like NT7 that, on discovery, look threatening, but then become harmless.

"This is because the problem of Near-Earth Objects is now being properly addressed," he said.

 

[gogeeta13]

Ok, so that gives me about 20 years to get laid.

 

[Cattlegod]

i think that we should "attempt" to change its trajectory so it misses the earth, but in reality, make it so that it hits the middle east and solves many of the worlds problems.

 

[tallest1]

We could change the trajectory of the moon so it hits that instead...