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

[ForceFate]

Lekker for you. Clearly not your field of expertise

I haven't met any experts on cancer, virology, immunology, weapons, etc here either but that doesn't prevent average Joe discussing those subjects. What's your point?

 

[RonSwanson]

I haven't met any experts on cancer, virology, immunology, weapons, etc here either but that doesn't prevent average Joe discussing those subjects. What's your point?

That you cannot scientifically prove anything by saying the magic word scientists, you're bullschitting. If you wanna die on a hill. make sure that your argument is sound (and that you have thought through the outcome of winning / losing it)

As you were.

 

[MirageF1]

Just 2 "relatively" recent examples, Tunguska and Chelyabinsk, both which never actually impacted the Earth(disintegrated or exploded above it high in the atmosphere), yet caused large scale devastation on the ground. Imagine the loss of life if an asteroid similar in size( 20-100m) to those 2 hit a populated urban area.

I applaud the efforts, however theoretically rare these events might be, it could be a huge life saver one day if they manage to successfully deploy the technology.
If you don't try, you'll never succeed.

https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-tunguska-explosion/

 

[wingnut771]

Yeah yeah, more speculation "According to Seinfield's tits" doesn't cut it for me.
Post some proper evidence or shut up.

Meteor that blasted millions of trees in Siberia only 'grazed' Earth, new research says

This destructive cosmic event has puzzled scientists for more than a century

www.livescience.com

 

[ForceFate]

That you cannot scientifically prove anything by saying the magic word scientists, you're bullschitting. If you wanna die on a hill. make sure that your argument is sound (and that you have thought through the outcome of winning / losing it)

As you were.

How do I scientifically prove anything on a forum? Are you drunk posting again?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

It's called planning.

Also, many new technologies emerged from projects that solved problems that don't exist so to speak.

The technology exists. That's why they can fly the spacecraft into an asteroid. They just want to see the results.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

There are signs our planet was hit in the past. The age of dinosaurs is postulated to have been ended by an asteroid. This shows the risk is there, remote as it is.

So what? There are several near misses by asteroids every decade. And none were detected until far too late.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Bloody scientists trying to learn things that could potentially save the human race from extinction, yeah what a waste...

Do you remember what Shoemaker-Levy 9 did to Jupiter when it impacted?

So what if the human race goes extinct? We're just another life form. Nothing special. All the atoms in your body have been through at least 6 collapses and supernovas. That's all you are made of.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Yeah yeah, more speculation "According to Seinfield's tits" doesn't cut it for me.
Post some proper evidence or shut up.

The Vredefort dome with the towns of Vredefort and Parys in it is an impact crater. The geology shows it to be as is Meteor Crater in Arizona and all those on the moon:

 

[Cosmik Debris]

An argument more compelling than possibly being able to avert an extinction level event...?

There is going to be an extinction level event when the sun runs out of fuel and expands past the Earth's orbit as a red giant star. It's inevitable. What's the concern?

 

[wingnut771]

There is going to be an extinction level event when the sun runs out of fuel and expands past the Earth's orbit as a red giant star. It's inevitable. What's the concern?

If we learn to detect and divert extinction level meteors in the couple of billion years before that happens, then we can move to one of Jupiter's moons.

 

[ForceFate]

The technology exists. That's why they can fly the spacecraft into an asteroid. They just want to see the results.

You should respond to @RonSwanson and not me. I'm not the one opposing this project.

 

[Cray]

There is going to be an extinction level event when the sun runs out of fuel and expands past the Earth's orbit as a red giant star. It's inevitable. What's the concern?

In five billion years time, one would hope that we would have moved past the confines of the solar system by then..

 

[ForceFate]

So what? There are several near misses by asteroids every decade. And none were detected until far too late.

Again, you're responding to the wrong person. I don't deny existence of such dangers.

 

[Cray]

So what if the human race goes extinct? We're just another life form. Nothing special. All the atoms in your body have been through at least 6 collapses and supernovas. That's all you are made of.

Agree, humans are not special, if we don't look after our own survival as a species no one else will.

 

[Cray]

So what? There are several near misses by asteroids every decade. And none were detected until far too late.

So because we didn't have the technology in the pastto do anything about it we should just accept that the human race might be wiped out?

 

[Cray]

You never answered the question.

Well spotted, why should I answer a question you clearly already know the answer to?

 

[ForceFate]

Well spotted, why should I answer a question you clearly already know the answer to?

Waste of time when he's in that state.

 

[Magnum]

The Vredefort dome with the towns of Vredefort and Parys in it is an impact crater. The geology shows it to be as is Meteor Crater in Arizona and all those on the moon:

Okey, Who was throwing pebbles at us

 

[Cosmik Debris]

If we learn to detect and divert extinction level meteors in the couple of billion years before that happens, then we can move to one of Jupiter's moons.

Jupiter got hit by a comet. How many billion people can Jupiter's moon support and who decides who will be going?