Realistically speaking, could we mitigate an asteroid crashing into our planet? I realized this scenario has been done in many movies but it's always some hyper unrealistic story.
Realistically speaking, could we mitigate an asteroid crashing into our planet...
Zachary Bennett
Jacob Miller
only real way would be in a deep underground bunker but that would only work for a very small asteroid.
btw there is a comet heading straight for earth while we shitpost right now
William Adams
>btw there is a comet heading straight for earth while we shitpost right now
plz tell me it isnt going to take decades to hit, i want to die now!
David Hall
All we need to do is eat the bugs.
Noah Fisher
Benjamin Clark
Asteroid of that size? no way
Dominic Jones
It depends how early you got to it.
Just impacting it with a probe years ahead of time would be enough for it to miss Earth. For short term just detonating a nuke on the right side of it would unironically work
Lincoln Roberts
>missed by a billion miles
fuck off when do i get to die?
Gavin Barnes
The Bogdanoffs may be dead but their quantum immortality curse lives on.
Mason Sanders
Yes, by not only using our entire nuclear arsenal, but also by creating about 10,000 more thermonuclear hydrogen bombs, and sending them all to the comet.
That many impacts would send it off course, enough to miss the Earth. Would take like 10-20 years though at a minimum. If we’re too late, then we’re all fucked.
Ethan Gray
Unlike climate change, the asteroid was a real physical object that could be observed. The movie failed in its liberal analogy.
Chase Martin
Easiest way to do it would be to detonate a nuke near it so it alters it trajectory.
Henry Jones
Yes, it's actually not even that hard, in cosmic scale even the slightest force / change in trajectory would be enough.
Dylan Perez
>the analogy wasn't 1-to-1 the same.
>for this reason, it has failed.
nigger what
Nolan Gonzalez
you wear the mask and take the jab like the government tells you to.
Easton Cruz
If we tax people enough and move diverse people from poor countries with low carbon footprints to western, white countries with exponentially higher carbon footprints, we can create enough carbon tax credits for NGOs and oil companies that we can deflect asteroids with pollutants in the atmosphere and lower the temperature of earth.
Elijah Russell
The user is correct. You are a stupid magic particle worshipper cultist.
William Lee
Yeah, that's literally what Jupiter and Saturn do, so there's never anything to worry about
Xavier Anderson
what is a whoa-jack?
Charles Young
>chemistry isn't real
lol
Evan Evans
When I was a kid I used to think an asteroid would have be like the size of the moon to destroy earth, which is obviously silly. But I also never thought something 5-10 miles wide, which is not even 1% the length of the earth's diameter could destroy almost all human life.
Christopher Edwards
Yeah one magic particle will tell the future what was I thinking? How foolish of me to consider any of the other things that exist other than this one particle. I so dread when it might change the temperature a fraction of a degree in 100 years. You are delusional.
Kevin Sullivan
us DoD proposed an idea in the 90's about firing a low powered laser from a satellite. the idea is the laser will melt and evaporate parts of the asteroid. the ejected asteroid matter will act like a thrusters making its path way off from earth.
the project was was being handle by lockheed to this day.
Nolan Jones
No, you can't say that. "Chemistry" is one particle.
Benjamin Gomez
The planet is already running out of nuclear fuel, we wasted all of it on dumb shit and now humanity is unlikely to ever escape. Long range space travel is entirely dependent on radioactive materials.
Carter Phillips
There's plenty of nuclear fuel in the form of thorium.
Jack Hernandez
so what, we have plenty of different planets in our solar system and asteroids to mine nuclear material from.
Wyatt Price
I think the real question is at this point, would we even want to?
Nathan Reed
Well that sounds clev
>the project was was being handle by lockheed to this day.
OH N-
Angel Reyes
Did you even read this shit
Grayson Walker
Yes, but it would be expensive, might fail in execution (thus not working at all) and depending upon the circumstances might cause a lot of damage.
If they locate the asteroid/comet far enough away then they can absolutely launch large rockets to send a nuke to knock the asteroid off course. Problem is depending on trajectory it might have debris that will still hit earth at speed and depending on science that isn't quite settled will cause an amount of radiation hitting earth - possibly a shit ton, but not something that will kill everything.
But our chances of deflecting a big asteroid were much worse from 2011 to late 2010s due to lack of available large rockets. You'd need a really big one, like a Saturn 5 or shuttle, to get into outer orbit and carry a very large nuke payload. But there was no such rocket so you'd have to launch multiple smaller ones - one for the nuke, one for the space rocket, one for the fuel, then assemble a rocket in low orbit that flies into outer orbit.
But today if we spot it early we're pretty safe, simply because of how how good SpaceX is going. They have so many rockets available they could easily do all this themselves if they were provided a nuke, and they could also probably assemble a single rocket to do it all in one go if they had a year. And then NASA and maybe ESA & JAXA combined could work on 2 backups.
Anyway, the reason deflecting an asteroid is an "issue" is because people want to figure out a reliable way to do it without using nukes and potentially irradiating the world.
Mason Hernandez
what about the realistic possibility of sending oil drillers to blow up the rock
Levi Young
What? You can get practically unlimited acceleration from solar panels sending electrons bouncing down a metal cone, you dummy.
Alexander Miller
>not just moving the solar system
Dyson spheres solve all problems
Nicholas Myers
This thread is off topic, but gets to stay up.
Adrian Jenkins
what the fuck are you talking about dude? where did you hear such a thing? your post reads like some ken M post where you just say something totally retarded in a very matter of fact sort of way.
Jaxon Torres
>thread discussing the plot of a recently released film
>off topic
Easton Wood
well the earth is flat and "outer space" is total made up bullshit, so we're not even at risk of such a thing happening in the first place.
Hunter Lopez
Obviously no, that's much dumber.
Humans are heavy and need a lot of stuff to live and the biggest issue with space travel is getting mass into orbits.
Each crewmember is like a little snowball that rolls down a hill and turns into an avalanche of space suits, waste system, waste storage, oxygen, water, food, heating, cooling, sitting space, suit storage, airlock that all needs to be flown into space.
There's a weird sort of conspiracy theory-community based around that idea that nuclear propulsion is 100% the only way to go.
Evan Rogers
>he fell for the one conspiracy theory that is basically proven to be a psyop
ngmi
Jaxon Collins
You can physically see space though. Most of the planets were discovered around the Babylonian era.
Christopher Smith
Samuel Anderson
It's not discussing the plot, it's using a plot point to discuss that subject matter. By your logic, simply post a pic of a movie with sex and now discuss sex and it's on topic. Show a gun used in a movie, and have a 200 reply thread about gun control. Show some ugly jews in The Passion of The Christ and discuss how hideous jews are and it's all on topic. brb I'm going to post a pic of Buffalo Bill and discuss how insane and demented trannies and crossdressers are, since it's simply discussing the plot.
Ethan Jenkins
I just want humanity to have one intergalactic war… please bros
Josiah Bailey
Logan Carter
>By your logic, simply post a pic of a movie with sex and now discuss sex and it's on topic. Show a gun used in a movie, and have a 200 reply thread about gun control. Show some ugly jews in The Passion of The Christ and discuss how hideous jews are and it's all on topic. brb I'm going to post a pic of Buffalo Bill and discuss how insane and demented trannies and crossdressers are, since it's simply discussing the plot.
All seems good to me user, go for it.
Nicholas Fisher
sorry user, God is letting the show continue. Humanity is still interesting enough.
John Gray
go suck janny cock, faggot
Noah Anderson
I'm saying jannies are arbitrary and biased in their deletion of threads, bigbrain.
Matthew Murphy
William Hill
Jace Perez
Joseph Barnes
Thomas Diaz
Joseph Martinez
Tyler Hernandez
Camden Sanders
that shit is just a hot air balloon.
Jason Rogers
>Realistically speaking
no.
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Matthew Collins
That's fake as shit. You think cities glow like that from space?
Wyatt Gonzalez
Asher Adams
We could attack rockets to it and push it away. Or attempt multiple nuclear impacts to smash it so small our atmosphere would turn it into nothing but a small shotgun blast.
But this movie was hilarious in that they don't realize that the very people it worships are those who cause the divisions that making dealing with such a thing impossible.
Hudson Stewart
Christian Wood
For an analogy to work, it must be analogous. And this simply wasn't.
Colton Roberts
They do from an aereoplane
Luis Garcia
oh and by the way, they're doing a netflix adaptation of the original moon landing.
>With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.
Nolan Bailey
I mined mine from un'goro crater
Anthony Howard
This is just cover for the fact that the absolute retards at NASA lost all the institutional knowledge necessary to land on the moon, and they have to discover it all over again.
Isaac Jackson
>we totally went to the moon guys, b-but we destroyed all the tech and footage from the missions by accident whoops
Zachary Wright
They don't. You see the lights, not ridiculous glowing like that. And it would be less bright when viewed from space.
>The inverse square law of light defines the relationship between the irradiance from a point source and distance. It states that the intensity per unit area varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
Christopher Wilson
Ya I cant see stars when looking up either
Jacob Rodriguez
The big problem with this theory is, the Russians would have known and would have screamed bloody murder if we didn't do it.
But they didn't. They didn't even attempt to assuming we did do it. So why?