Another thing to worry about

[fan_since79]

There are at least 1 million asteroids out there large enough to destroy an entire metropolitan area. Only about 10,000 of them have been discovered and their orbits studied.

 

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0422/610340-asteroids/

Edited April 22, 2014 by fan_since79

[Tyler]

[mtangelsfan]

Phillipians 4:6-7

[HaloFan85]

I got this...

 

 

[Amazing Larry]

I got this...

 

I was really good at this back in the day. I'm going to search the interwebs for it.

[TobiasFunke]

Yea but how many have Space Slugs is the real question?

 

[Amazing Larry]

That was easy enough.

 

http://atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/asteroids/play

[HaloFan85]

Here's one much closer to the original, including sound fx.

 

http://www.freeasteroids.org/welcome/

Edited April 23, 2014 by HaloFan85

[fan_since79]

All kidding aside, the danger is real. One of those big ones hits Orange County, and no more baseball. Or people.

 

A former astronaut is helping to build an infra-red telescope that will hopefully be launched in 2018 to track near-Earth asteroids by looking at their heat signatures. The project is privately funded and still needs a lot of money to complete. They figure to map 20,000 asteroids in the first year.

 

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Former-astronaut-wants-to-save-the-world-from-asteroids-256273781.html

[1nutkruk]

That was easy enough.

 

http://atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/asteroids/play

Sweet!

[gotbeer]

Someone find Harry Stamper.

[Adam]

All kidding aside, the danger is real. One of those big ones hits Orange County, and no more baseball. Or people.

 

A former astronaut is helping to build an infra-red telescope that will hopefully be launched in 2018 to track near-Earth asteroids by looking at their heat signatures. The project is privately funded and still needs a lot of money to complete. They figure to map 20,000 asteroids in the first year.

 

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Former-astronaut-wants-to-save-the-world-from-asteroids-256273781.html

 

No sense in worrying about something you can't immediately impact

[nate]

I thought this thread was going to be out herpes.

[tdawg87]

This has been a problem since humans existed. Only we now can see at least a small percentage of them and project their paths.

[Adam]

we actually can

 

i was watching a documentary about different ways to deal with this very real problem, and IIRC, the best way is to send a small spacecraft/probe to lodge itself in close proximity enough to where, over time, it can alter the asteroid's gravity a tiny little bit, thereby changing its trajectory/orbit enough to miss earth. 

 

Sure. Assuming that fan_since79 isn't a space engineer or asian, he can't personally impact it. 

[Brandon]

Phillipians 4:6-7

 

How many Bible stories didn't come true or people are still waiting on?

[St1ck]

How many Bible stories didn't come true or people are still waiting on?

All of them.

[arch stanton]

We should look at this as like a bizarro-lottery. Congratulation! You beat the 1 trillion to 1 odds and got blasted by an asteroid. Your name will forever be in the history books. Or at least until an asteroid destroys all the history books.

[fan_since79]

Sure. Assuming that fan_since79 isn't a space engineer or asian, he can't personally impact it. 

 

My backyard is not big enough to accommodate a spaceship. Otherwise, I'd be building it right now.

[TobiasFunke]

Phillipians 4:6-7

I'm kind of on the same boat as you MT, but from a non-religous standpoint. Something like an asteroid hitting the earth, there is NOTHING we can do to stop it so I figure just live the best life you can and when it comes, it comes.

[Ray McKigney]

I thought this thread was going to be out herpes.

 

I thought it was going to be about gay marriage. Or Mexicans.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

I once read a scientific research paper on this.  The conclusion was that its feasible to send a crew of redneck oil drillers on a spaceship to land on the asteroid.  From there, they can drill a hole deep enough to add explosives to blow up the whole damn thing. Frankly, I feel a lot safer knowing this.

[Ray McKigney]

I once read a scientific research paper on this.  The conclusion was that its feasible to send a crew of redneck oil drillers on a spaceship to land on the asteroid.  From there, they can drill a hole deep enough to add explosives to blow up the whole damn thing. Frankly, I feel a lot safer knowing this.

 

Sounds like science fiction. 

[Adam]

haha awesome post ADaB

[Tank]

I once read a scientific research paper on this.  The conclusion was that its feasible to send a crew of redneck oil drillers on a spaceship to land on the asteroid.  From there, they can drill a hole deep enough to add explosives to blow up the whole damn thing. Frankly, I feel a lot safer knowing this.

 

i read the same paper. here's a photo that accompanied the article, written by a Mr. Cy Ense and Mr. Army Geddon.