Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth
The launch would have to occur five months before the asteroid or comet was due to hit, giving us just a month to prepare. “You have to be ready. You can’t wait,” says Lubin. The penetrators would then strike a month before the impact date, exploding in concentric rings from the outer edge of the asteroid or comet towards its centre. That would give us the greatest chance of blasting it into small-enough fragments that would be mostly pushed out of Earth’s path.
“Will any of them hit? Probably,” says Lubin. “But if it’s a choice between everybody dying and some, you have to make some choices.”, the acting head of the European Space Agency’s planetary defence office, says the idea seems reasonable, but wonders if we would have enough time to act. “Even if there are enough nuclear explosive devices, you’d still need to get them up on a rocket in four weeks,” he says. “I don’t see how that can happen.
Thankfully, our best surveillance efforts suggest we won’t need such a call to arms any time soon. “There’s nothing that we are worried about for at least the next 100 years,” says
My question is, what would we do if there is a shower of comets or asteroids, which is not uncommon. If the Oort Cloud gets destabilized, the chances are more than one comet will get knocked out.
Well, we're doomed then.
This film is going to age so well, like the incredible mini series Years and Years
You do know this movie was about climate change, and you are pulling the same kind of entertainment redirection that is portrayed and excoriated in the film, right?
You do know this movie was about climate change right?
Like climate change and Covid, you don’t need everyone to “believe,” you just need a few people… enough. Which is why we need privatized medicine (as it always has been) and space travel, as it should be… It’s about the people who care.
Why would we want to though?
No, our collective stupidity as well as greed overpowers our capacity to react apporopriately to a crisis situation i.e. global climate change, covid pandemic
I mean, I’m sure some government somewhere has a super secret bomb somewhere in a super secret base, I think we’ll be fine, if not, then I’ll probably be hitting the bars everyday during those six months lettsss ggooo 🥳🥳🥳
If only climate change was a comet we could do something about it.
No we won't, because we live in the exact same world depicted in Don't Look Up. Just look at how governments handled, or rather, mishandled their Wuhan Virus response. Now we're up to our necks in Covid-19 Variants and nowhere near a solution to end the pandemic :/
The idea that the world would just ignore an oncoming comet because they wanted to pretend it wasn't real would have been deemed a ridiculous plot point 5 years ago but is believable now.
No.
mm will we though?💭
There’s nothing that we are worried about for at least the next 100 years,” says Áine O’Brien at the University of Glasgow, UK,...”. Famous last words? Given the near miss of Asteroid 2021 UA1 in Nov 2021.
I've been praying for this comet for years, why would you want to stop it?
I guess this is a good place to put this up...
have a mercy research on spinal cord complete injury and please make a promising successful treatment available for us as soon as possible in this month's or with in years we are dying everyday wanna go for a long walk again
Or, alternatively, we let it hit us and see what happens?
We can fuck, or pray, or...Oh sorry, I forget that I've got a ship.
PMQs Those who own loads of property, wealthy, & have children for the future of this world need worry but, single homeless, & childless ppl couldn't care & many would prefer euthanasia!
Climate crisis, pandemic crisis, hunger, war, distribution crisis ... Nope, we already lost that.
_PaulMonaghan It would be far safer to anchor and tow one with a rocket into a different orbital path. Especially when you realize how easy it is to move even a huge object like a ship with a tug.
We’re fucked then.
who cares
I believe we could do this.
We could do a lot of things but more often than not, the world collectively drags its feet in dealing with a problem until there is no immediate alternative.
But how can you save planet earth from the comet named 'humanity'?
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'Don't look up' is an accurate portrayel of the Trump administration's approach to the Covid pandemic... Whether the earth can be saved from asteroids or viruses, or not, requires an intelligent and rapid response...
kenm77 🔥 Good answer
No too busy Nuking each other.
Is science balanced against recent science fiction now? To find out if we will die quicker or slower than in the movies. Such great data.
Could we save humanity from a climate Crisis if we only had 25 years to do it. Probably not. Considering everyone we know right now, and the pace at which change is taking place. We ARE FU full of optimism
Don’t look up was an unintentional documentary on the inner workings of the government
No chance! McConnell will block any response with the filibuster rule...
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