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Another thing to worry about


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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

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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

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

 

armageddon2.jpg

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