Fingernail on 23/2/2007 at 19:42
:eek: good plan I'll get right on that
dj_ivocha on 23/2/2007 at 20:08
Quote Posted by Kolya
The force needed may not be that great. It could dock on to the asteroid and then use thrusters to move it a little. And it would have tens of years for that.
Imagine you pushing against an oil-tanker for twenty years or so. That's what the idea is based on at least.
The sentence "...then use the spacecraft’s gravitational pull to shift the asteroid’s course..." implies they want to move the asteroid simply by positioning the spacecraft nearby and letting its mass and thus gravity change the path of the asteroid. Kinda like the moon changed and stabilized earth's orbit over millions of years. Only I didn't know we had such heavy spacecraft that can actually exert any noticeable gravity field. :p
StealthThief on 23/2/2007 at 20:23
Quote Posted by OnionBob
*smashes u in the head with a rock*
HAHA GET UP GET A LIFE
I'm invincible ;)
Seriously, you guys shouldn't be taking something like this seriously. It is all BS.
Gray on 23/2/2007 at 20:31
Hello, Boris Grishenko.
Sulphur on 23/2/2007 at 21:05
That, or a reality show starring Dr. Freeman and Dog, about how they're the only survivors of the impact after an abortive attempt at thwarting the asteroid that's never really explained as Freeman can't speak and Dog's too busy humping his leg.
fett on 23/2/2007 at 23:04
All I know is they need to seriously get to work on Duke Nuken Forever. They haven't much time left.
Mingan on 23/2/2007 at 23:54
Last I heard about this particular news clip, they said it would take a one ton craft hovering near the asteroid for two weeks. It said it would be enough to divert the asteroid, so it's not totally hard to do that...
Gray on 24/2/2007 at 01:03
Then why are you fretting? Just blast up Aerosmith, and blast away then, and save humanity. FTW.
You brought it up. Now save humanity.
