The chance of a dinosaur killer hitting in the next century is actually pretty small. Sky surveys have detected 90+% of the possible large asteroids on a bad trajectory.
Depends on the speed, doesn't it? A fast rock obliterates itself in the atmosphere, slow enough and enough material ends up hitting to create some pretty intense storm surges... at least I assume a rock the size of a football stadium would make some waves.
Well look who paid attention in class that day.Probably not like you think. "Slow" translates into many kps, and the rock doesn't penetrate far as it's hit a wall of water that might as well be nucleonic matter for all the damage it does to it. Motion is translated into heat and kinetic energy is spent creating steam. It will make a splash and if one is a few miles away they may perceive an unusual swell, but maybe not. The amount of energy at the wavefront will diminish with the square of the increase of the radius. If it's a wave 100 feet high at 100 feet, then it's inches within sight of the impact. It's going to be a hell of a loud noise underwater so aquatic life won't love it but it's a tiny tiny fraction of a percent compared to an average deep sea quake.
Well look who paid attention in class that day.
NERD
I'm assuming they can detect a launch before impact, so hopefully the answer is no, lol.Scary question, if that asteroid did strike us and hit either Russia or China, would they have launched nukes assuming they have already been nuked or ask questions first?
Wouldn't it suck if we spent the next fifty years eliminating the use of all fossil fuels then got hit by an asteroid.
I don't see any way you could have missed the point by a wider margin. That rock we're talking about was closer.Yeah fuck the environment the big rock could be coming any day now! Party on!
that rock was about the size of the one which created meteor crater in AZ, it's not big enough the kill the whole planet, so taking care of the the environment should be a no brainer.I don't see any way you could have missed the point by a wider margin. That rock we're talking about was closer.
I was going to try to describe this event but a pictar is worth a thousand words, so:
Hahahahahahahahaha forgot about that one... picture of a moron looking into the sun. HahahahahahahahhahWell had he been on duty like he is supposed to instead of playing golf he could have warned us.
Ok brainiac... educate the class please?"Barely Noticed In Time" for what exactly?
Not much to do about it regardless.
Ok brainiac... educate the class please?
I don't know what you are driving at.
What can you do about an object speeding at the earth? I'm open give a few ideas.
No. He's saying we don't currently have an effective system for deflecting an asteroid from an Earth collision, even if we spotted it months in advance.you think there isnt much to be done about a astroid destroying life as we know it?
No. He's saying we don't currently have an effective system for deflecting an asteroid from an Earth collision, even if we spotted it months in advance.
I don't know what you are driving at.
What can you do about an object speeding at the earth? I'm open give a few ideas.
then he should of said that.No. He's saying we don't currently have an effective system for deflecting an asteroid from an Earth collision, even if we spotted it months in advance.you think there isnt much to be done about a astroid destroying life as we know it?I don't know what you are driving at.Ok brainiac... educate the class please?I was going to try to describe this event but a pictar is worth a thousand words, so:
[picture of article with headline: "A Giant Asteroid Just Skimmed Past Earth, And We Barely Noticed in Time"]
"Barely Noticed In Time" for what exactly?
Not much to do about it regardless.
What can you do about an object speeding at the earth? I'm open give a few ideas.
Pointing out that fact is basically saying we still need to get an effective system in place. Such a system would take decades. It would almost certainly require distant AI-controlled probes and intercept vehicles. If an object that would collide with Earth is identified at a GREAT distance from Earth, a tiny nudge can easily prevent the collision -- but the systems must be completely autonomous; able to identify such objects LONG before they would impact Earth. They must automatically mobilize to target those objects without human intervention.
when someone says "Not much to do about it regardless." it implies a total lack of action.
do you even watch movies?