Could be surprisingly little given the trajectory of such an object, where we're pointing our telescopes and even the geology, mass and size of the asteroid.
The sum of my scientific knowledge is based on Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, but my impression was that there's not much we could do about it beyond saying 'What was tha...?'. If our imminent extinction is avoidable, that might make my Monday slightly cheerier.
i know that, but its going to be much more fun watching all the ICBMs getting blasted off into space than watching some bloke who still lives with his mother talk about laser ablation for 2 hours before switching on a box that looks like a camcorder from the early 80's and going, "well, thats that sorted" (also at no point will he make eyecontact with the camera). plus it'd really speed up nuclear disarmament
No my initial response was concise and if you posessed any intelligence at all you may may well have garnered that I do not agree with the "opinions" put forward by our "so called experts". Remember how June was going to be a heatwave. Your pathetic attempts at gaining the higher intelligence stance is based solely on what you read from anyone who is supposedly intelligent and ignore the fact that they could be wittering logorrhea. But if you are unwilling to think and form your own opinions then you stick to that sonny. Spoon fed. I prefer to think for myself.
it'll be ok, we could defrost bruce willis from his hibernation in carbonite an he would save the day.
Or we could get all the Chinese people to jump up and down for a minute, knocking Earth out of its current orbit, thereby moving out of the way of the incoming asteroid. Of course, it would probably mean we'd end up hurtling towards the sun but it would give us an extra few years.
What the **** are you on about? Of course I believe the scientific community when they say they have this under control, what else is there do to? I form my opinions about what I read, and if it is from a credible source then I'll accept it. You astonish me by how dumb you are sometimes ER.
Well, given that mathematics was borne out of astronomy, and that astronomy is the oldest science...... we can take it that 'they' know what they are doing. How much notice? In some cases decades. These things can be monitored years ahead, and the likely flypast/impact can be calculated with great precision TO THE SECOND. Fact. However, thats only the one's we know about. Nellies (NELE's or Near Extinction Level Events) occur every 10,000 yrs or so. We had all better hope that Tunguska in 1911 was the last Nellie. Bottom line though: its isnt a matter of IF, but WHEN
And the scientific community have never got it wrong have they dumbass? Christ what an insufferable gullible ****in' bore you are.
bollocks it would. superman did it and it worked out fine although i did always wonder where he got that giant net that he carted them off into space with. looking back that bit seems fairly ridiculous now.
So your answer was: 'Bollocks'. My answer was: It'll all be sorted by the time it happens. There's a lot of research going into it, scientists have been worrying about it for ages. No need to worry about this How does your answer question the scientific community's past findings/research? Of course there's a possibility it could go wrong, there always is. But in this case, with all the research that's being done ahead of time, there isn't any need to worry about this more than anything else.
Human life on Earth is a total accident. Humans have been on Earth for a nanosecond - relatively speaking. We are - in the Universal view of things - barely intelligent bacteria thriving on a small rock in space. The Earth's been hit before, it'll be hit again. I'm more worried about what I'll have for dinner tonight.
I saw a documentary about this by that Dr Kaku bloke... I think the general theory is they would detect it with enough warning then launch nuclear missiles at but explode them to the side of the asteroid thus altering its trajectory slightly an missing earth... If it was detected too late Dr kaku planned on using a series of massive lasers to obliterate it.. There was another theory which involved exploding nuclear war heads underneath giant solid steel plates which were aimed at the asteroid which would again knock it off course.
Wasn't there also a theory about having a giant mirror in space deflecting rays from the sun onto the asteroid? Those scientists and their wacky plans!
It seems an interesting 400m asteroid called 99942 Apophis which has a possible impact in 2036, might be able to be deflected in 9 years time. It's the best chance to get the job done. As things stand, it seems that we have the technology to deflect it. 2004 VD17 which has a date with us in 2001 (I think) is a whole different story though. There is a window of opportunity in 2021, 81 years before impact.
