Here's why NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid

[RedViking]

The man made event that set a future disastrous catastrophe into motion....

"The fear of man created man's biggest fear"
-Survivor Earth l

 

[RedViking]

Scary if you really think of it, it can all end at any second

Bliss....

 

[Cray]

Then you need to elucidate your argument to include the Oort cloud and comets. No comet is detectable until close enough to earth for the sun to vaporise the frozen constituents...

And how do we detect new comets in the solar system if we don't actively search for them?

 

[Cray]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1574539270987173903

 

[RonSwanson]

There is no new tech on this mission.

Quite funny that you have to keep repeating yourself

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Never seen scientists so happy to destroy a multi millior dollar spacecraft

 

[RonSwanson]

Science is always about testing and experimentation.

Yep, it is, but it needs to solve a real problem, or further a noble cause. This one isn't, and considering all of the other problems that we have, it's a complete waste of research funding.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Yep, it is, but it needs to solve a real problem, or further a noble cause. This one isn't, and considering all of the other problems that we have, it's a complete waste of research funding.

The lessons learnt, the protocols put in place, the processes, the data etc etc was a waste of time????

Lets hope you are a fossil by the time we are on course to be hit, else its gonna suck for you

 

[RonSwanson]

It's the ones we don't know about that are the problem Cosmik.

Once again, speaks to my point

 

[s0lar]

Yep, it is, but it needs to solve a real problem, or further a noble cause. This one isn't, and considering all of the other problems that we have, it's a complete waste of research funding.

You didn’t watch Armageddon did you?

 

[saor]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1574539270987173903

Man I get the excitement but I sometimes find those cheering / hugging / omg Kelly! shots so cringe.

 

[RonSwanson]

The lessons learnt, the protocols put in place, the processes, the data etc etc was a waste of time????

Absolutely.

And I will acknowledge your ad-hominem attack as clear evidence that you concede that your argument is flawed.

 

[Cray]

Yep, it is, but it needs to solve a real problem, or further a noble cause. This one isn't, and considering all of the other problems that we have, it's a complete waste of research funding.

What is your personal favorite for a research project that should rather have been funded rather than this?

 

[RonSwanson]

What is your personal favorite for a research project that should rather have been funded rather than this?

Gee, dunno, there are so many. If it's life that needs to be preserved (looking at the original so-called problem), then a good start would be to examine the causes of death, and address those with well-funded research. Maybe then we would end up preventing far more real deaths than the imaginary ones in this exercise. And that's just a start.

 

[Cray]

Gee, dunno, there are so many. If it's life that needs to be preserved (looking at the original so-called problem), then a good start would be to examine the causes of death, and address those with well-funded research. Maybe then we would end up preventing far more real deaths than the imaginary ones in this exercise. And that's just a start.

But we already do that kind of research, do you think adding the relatively small amount will have a material effect... ?

https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget/fact-book/data/research-funding

The National cancer institute in the UK, one country, spends $6.5 billion on cancer research per year. This mission cost $330 million.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Absolutely.

And I will acknowledge your ad-hominem attack as clear evidence that you concede that your argument is flawed.

Sure

 

[Moosedrool]

Gee, dunno, there are so many. If it's life that needs to be preserved (looking at the original so-called problem), then a good start would be to examine the causes of death, and address those with well-funded research. Maybe then we would end up preventing far more real deaths than the imaginary ones in this exercise. And that's just a start.

Research like that exists...

You don't think meteors are a real threat?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Gee, dunno, there are so many. If it's life that needs to be preserved (looking at the original so-called problem), then a good start would be to examine the causes of death, and address those with well-funded research. Maybe then we would end up preventing far more real deaths than the imaginary ones in this exercise. And that's just a start.

But that research already exists...

And even this research may have unexpected results where we learn more about our universe and the way it operates and it opens new doors for us in understanding things and we can improve what seems to be entirely unrelated technologies.

 

[RonSwanson]

Research like that exists...

You don't think meteors are a real threat?

Do you think that they are? How many human deaths have they caused in the past 10,000 years?

 

[RonSwanson]

But that research already exists...

And even this research may have unexpected results where we learn more about our universe and the way it operates and it opens new doors for us in understanding things and we can improve what seems to be entirely unrelated technologies.

Yep, it's fun. That's great, if the time and budget for fooling around exists, and fooling around it is, considering that it still does not solve any existing problem.