Expert: Asteroid May Hit Earth, but Don't Panic

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iCe_2x

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Originally posted by shockz

The site said this:

So theres hope yet. :o

But in 2019 we might have some sort of missles or technology that can destroy it. Since we know about it, then we could develop some sort of technology.

yea, I agree... not just one missle but some type of laser maybe ?... http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/futureweapons.html

6.4 Space-Based High-energy Laser (HEL) System A multimegawatt high-energy chemical laser constellation that can be used in several modes of operation. In its weapons mode with the laser at high power, it can attack ground, air, and space targets. In its surveillance mode, it can operate using the laser at low power levels for active illumination imaging or with the laser inoperative for passive imaging.
..interesting, ha ?
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shouck

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The title of this post reminded me of the Beavis & Butthead movie (anyone seen it?)... The part on the plane... ah, hilarious

But i agree that there'll be some kind of tech. that'll take care of it somehow. If not, well, we all knew the Weekly World News would be right one day :ponder:

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AgEnTsMiTh

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." The BBC article's headline (and accompanying illustration) are more alarming than the story itself seems to warrant: this asteroid has been given a 0.06 on the Palermo technical scale, which means it shouldn't bump getting run over by a llama off your list of worries.

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neo1980

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By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - A massive asteroid could hit Earth in just 17 years' time, destroying life as we know it, a British space expert said Wednesday.

The asteroid -- the most threatening object ever detected in space -- is two km (1.2 miles) wide and apparently on a direct collision course with Earth.

"Objects of this size only hit the Earth every one or two million years," said Dr. Benny Peiser, an asteroid expert at Liverpool John Moore's University in northern England.

"In the worst case scenario, a disaster of this size would be global in its extent, would create a meltdown of our economic and social life, and would reduce us to dark age conditions," he told Reuters.

But Peiser and other space experts say they are pretty confident this nightmare scenario will not come about.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story...m/asteroid_dc_1

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Tobbe

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In 7 years we will know more about this and maybe we can send some bomb on it that will make it change course so that it miss us with a few miles. A big SWOOSH! :p

Why not a few nuclear bombs that turns it into sand? The whole sky will light up! ;)

Maybe some aliens will save us? :alien:

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Gurm

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1. It's 2 miles wide. That's not really big. We can blow it up - easy.

2. It's currently an 0.06 threat. Slightly more likely than being killed by flying crap from a chihuahua's butt.

3. I love the fact that the BBC shows a picture of an asteroid easily 1000 times larger than this one at the top of the story. NOT trying to spread panic, are we?

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Tesseract

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there is another thread about this (but is in the BPN):

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=39573

here is another one:

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=39598

anyway, I am not gonna worry about it. that is a long way down the line.

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I've just heard that news. Although it's still 17 years away, we have time to develop something that can destroy the asteroid...maybe by sending several huge nuke missile or doing exactly what we saw on Armageddon movie ;)

Anyway, we don't have to panic now.

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Tobbe

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I heard on Discovery that some scientists were developing a anti-materia bomb that's even "better" than the most advanced nuclear bomb today. Why not send a few prototypes of this bomb? :cool:

The name of the bomb may tell you a little bit of its power. ;)

Screw atom bombs! Woohoo to anti-materia power! :p

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rob.derosa

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Originally posted by Tobbe

I heard on Discovery that some scientists were developing a anti-materia bomb that's even "better" than the most advanced nuclear bomb today. Why not send a few prototypes of this bomb? :cool:

The name of the bomb may tell you a little bit of its power. ;)

Screw atom bombs! Woohoo to anti-materia power! :p

Is this similar to anti-matter by any chance :p

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