Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
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Same mindset that brought about the fall of the soviet union. Russian's egos are bigger than their brains. They have a shit economy and they are still trying to play equals to America instead of working on reforming their failing, drunken state.
What a bleak shithole.
What a bleak shithole.
As illustrated by my reasonable points.
What points do you disagree with?
Russia is too many other financial problems to be trying to shoot down a facking asteroid.
Russian economy is shit.
Russia has a massive drinking problem with their population?
How ironic would it be if they hit the asteroid and it actually increased the likelihood that it will collide with Earth.
Wow i'm disgusted by that article. I can't believe how they managed to take a proven impossibility such as aphopis colliding with earth or even going within spaceship range sound like something that could happen.
They straight up took everything that russian spokesman said and used big powerful buzz words to twist it out of context to sound like possible devastation.
Then they used simile's and the lowest sounding numbers possible along with the biggest numbers they could find in the research to conclude that "the odds are going up" Then they failed to mention what every space program in the world knows, YOU NEVER TRY TO BLOW UP AN ASTEROID LIKE ITS A MOVIE which would really cause a much bigger problem (shotgun like blast) than solve anything. and insinuate that there are different ways they're going to try to do it.
I think someone just wanted to write a doomsday article and was looking for any excuse to get one out there.
The only nontwisted and distorted thing in that entire article was:
I really hope nasa doesn't join in and waste money on this project. we already know the course of an asteroid can't be changed by a rocket, space ship or all the nukes in the world. It can really only be done by a planet or another asteroid.
They straight up took everything that russian spokesman said and used big powerful buzz words to twist it out of context to sound like possible devastation.
obviously talking about future astroids.
Then they used simile's and the lowest sounding numbers possible along with the biggest numbers they could find in the research to conclude that "the odds are going up" Then they failed to mention what every space program in the world knows, YOU NEVER TRY TO BLOW UP AN ASTEROID LIKE ITS A MOVIE which would really cause a much bigger problem (shotgun like blast) than solve anything. and insinuate that there are different ways they're going to try to do it.
I think someone just wanted to write a doomsday article and was looking for any excuse to get one out there.
The only nontwisted and distorted thing in that entire article was:
I really hope nasa doesn't join in and waste money on this project. we already know the course of an asteroid can't be changed by a rocket, space ship or all the nukes in the world. It can really only be done by a planet or another asteroid.
That's called making money.
Some people monetize on
- saving us all from terrorists
- saving us all from global warming
- saving us all from drugs
- saving us all from God's wrath
...and some, on saving us all from asteroids.
You see, pushing Acai and Teeth Whiteners (knowing full well it's bullshit) isn't the only way to make some doe in this world.
Or do you think the US has a monopoly on crooked politicians who function solely on kickbacks they get for pushing through bullshit projects for big business and contractors?
That will depend on the amount of money that can be embezzled in such project. If it's sufficient enough to pay the "right" people in the "right" committees, you can bet your rebill-peddling ass NASA will not only join, but will take a leading role in it.
I agree with most of what you said, but that statement is just wrong. For a start an asteroid can be any size, and made up of different substances, which also has a large affect on how easily its trajectory can be changed. There are also several ways to alter an asteroids course, check out 'gravitational tractor' for one of them.
i agree with you, i kind of said that as a hard fact without giving all the details of other circumstances that can make it untrue.
It's not so much the size of the asteroid it's the speed. The average speed of an asteroid traveling through the belt is about 47k mph (even a bullet is only around 2k mph) and when they break off it causes them to go even faster as they slingshot through the gravitational pull of the sun. The smaller ones will move even faster. Even the smallest asteroid ever discovered (it was only about 20 ft in diameter) flying in dead space at that speed has such an incredible amount of force nothing we are capable of launching into space can stand a chance (it'd be like a bug on a window). We're capable of getting up to 25k mph but thats without leaving the satellite belt anywhere beyond that we're very limited and even in our ranges where we can get something to it to pull of a theory like gravitational tractor the asteroid would be so close we'd already be dead regardless.
I know its a pessimistic outlook but thats really all we got at the moment. There's a lot of ideas out there of how we might be able to pull it off, but none at this moment are possible for us to even test and the ones mentioned in that article we already know won't work especially on an 885ft asteroid like Apophis. All the results from their experiment wouldn't really be worth anything in the overall problem. It would be cool to test and possibly learn from an asteroid colliding with earth scenario but that asteroid isn't going to be coming close enough for us to even do that.
The only chance we have at hitting an astroid from orbit, is either hitting a wide area with a massive explosion (assuming the explosive charge was already in the path) several times more than we have on our arsenel, or somehow producing powerful laser technology, since thats going to be the only thing that could travel the distance from a satellite to a target in time.
If they send an aircraft to 'knock' it out of the way, the main plausible outcome is that not only will the asteroid continue to enter the atmosphere if it was on its way here to begin with... but it would also provide a speedy return of the craft we sent up there.