I don't mean just looking for it and seeing it before it smashes us. I'm talking about stopping it after we find it. You want to talk about climate change? This would change the climate in a big fast hurry.
Enlighten me Veeky Forums, give me hope that someone is on this. Thanks.
Also please share any strategies you think could potentially stop something like this from happening. It's just a matter of time before it happens.
Why would you want to stop something like this? This planet is long overdue for an extinction event
There is not much we can do.
That's why we want Mars colonies, at least then not all of humanity will be wiped out
So we choose to take a defeatist approach? Great.
Nice to know someone is always looking for a silver lining...
There's been discussion of hypothetical ways to stop an asteroid, I believe there was actually an interesting test where they straight up crashed a satellite into a comet to see the effects and more of the internal structure.
The best general way is just to fund more space stuff, better technology will lead to more options if it ever occurs.
Fill a giant balloon with water.
The meteor will freeze in time.
I hope so. It would be a shame if we spent all that money and effort on building our nuclear arsenals, just to get wiped out by some stupid asteroid!
the silver lining must be rubbing off...HA!
I don't quite follow your logic Satan. Please elaborate?
The balloon will burst and reverse momentum from the meteor. It stops moving
Nasa has a planetary defense office with asteroid detection
NASA has formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) as the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The office remains within NASA's Planetary Science Division, in the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The office will be responsible for supervision of all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that pass near Earth's orbit around the sun. It will also take a leading role in coordinating interagency and intergovernmental efforts in response to any potential impact threats.
More than 13,500 near-Earth objects of all sizes have been discovered to date -- more than 95 percent of them since NASA-funded surveys began in 1998. About 1,500 NEOs are now detected each year.
"Asteroid detection, tracking and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "While there are no known impact threats at this time, the 2013 Chelyabinsk super-fireball and the recent 'Halloween Asteroid' close approach remind us of why we need to remain vigilant and keep our eyes to the sky."
NASA has been engaged in worldwide planning for planetary defense for some time, and this office will improve and expand on those efforts, working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other federal agencies and departments.
In addition to detecting and tracking potentially hazardous objects, the office will issue notices of close passes and warnings of any detected potential impacts, based on credible science data. The office also will continue to assist with coordination across the U.S. government, participating in the planning for response to an actual impact threat, working in conjunction with FEMA, the Department of Defense, other U.S. agencies and international counterparts.
There is no defense against something the size of your picture. We could hit it with the entire world's nuclear arsenal and jigawatt laser beams for years and we'd barely make a dent, and then it would still collide with the earth.
The only way to stop something that big is to begin affecting its trajectory decades before we are even 100% certain it will hit the planet. And there ain't no political capital to "potentially" save everyone on earth.
I'm sure most politicians will just tell themselves that god won't let it happen and go along their merry way until the end.
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission
NASA+ESA(if they secure funding) Asteroid Impact Mission
>rogue planet is found to be on collision course with the Earth
>keep in mind it's been named Remina
Wat do
stay being a pessimistic cuck
Operation Moloch
We rip out as many resources from our planet as possible.
Feed it to a giga sized underground laser and fire it at the fucking rock.
Operation Gaia Thunder
We launch as many space nukes as possible at it.
Operation Graviga Shield
We curve the thing around us
Operation FUCK YOUR SHIT
We use everything in one massive organised plan.
Operation Funnel.
We channel the sun into it.
Operation Shield Wall
Bunkers...
Lots of bunkers.
>there are no known impact threats at this time
so obviously there is no problem
the work that planetary resources is doing would make preventing this possible
1: How many dedicated orbital observatories are there to detect these things?
2: How many dedicated Main Asteroid Belt observatories are there?
3: How many dedicated Kuiper Belt observatories are there?
4: How many built, tested, working, and ready programs are there to actually do this?
Go ahead, someone tell me the answers.
Does Matt Damon and his band of Martians carry on eating poo and living on Mars or do they come back to earth and repopulate after the dust settles?
Programs like that are unsustainable because of course "funding". Taxing people to fix the climate is one thing, taxing them for potential impacts from asteroids another. It would be a great day job, staring off into space all day and getting paid for it but nearly as lucrative as staring off into the atmosphere all day and getting paid for it.
>he thinks people would be doing that job
do we really need orbital observatories?
there are a large number of ground telescopes that have been working at this for a while, and probably a great fraction of the large objects that could do serious harm to human civilization have been detected.
Is it perfect? no, but we are working at it
send some oil rig workers to plant a nuke in it like Armageddon
Because we still haven't answered the big question so rage quiting like a pussy is no way to beat the game.
Wew lad, programs like that are enormous cash cows and someone is collecting the paychecks regardless if any detection is being done regardless if sensors or eyeballs are working it.
You could install massive space radar arrays but they run on electricity right!? Is it even worth it? Maybe some "green" enviro friendly high orbit satellites running on solar panels?
In the end, if some huge asteroid was heading towards earth not much could be done and there wouldn't even be a point startling the herd with foreknowledge, pointless really. It's all entertainment and sort of related I liked Melancholia, good flick.
If a huge asteroid is headed toward earth, we could launch a bunch of nukes at it and orion drive it
You can do it in Java on a fucking smartphone. Just hire an indie dev. What year do you think this is?
Most satellites run off solar and/or RTG.
The B612 foundation
Detecting 90% of asteroids larger than the one that caused the tunguska event would not be very expensive.
Estimated cost for such a mission is $450 million, which is about 4.5 times the budget of the Martian.
We do have a lot of counter-meteor protocols though, one is literally just to have something travel alongside it in order to slightly effect its course via gravity and miss us. Plain, simple, effective. It counts on us seeing it a good amount ahead of time though.
That would be a thousand times worse, because now we have the same amount of mass coming to hit us but it's a lot of smaller meteors that can hit in multiple different places at different times now instead of just one target. And no it's not just going to burn up in the atmosphere.
im okay with dying as long as m family dies as well, all of them, i don't want to them to feel sad
Except thats totally wrong.. because its like shooting someone with birdshot or with a slug
Obviously birdshot doesn't do shit
>detecting potential impactors with radar
top kek
If it's that large we can't do shit
unless we know about it far ahead, but that's the size of a moon, and it's highly unlikely that we will ever collide with something like that the next few hundred million years.
Changing the course of a asteroid is pretty damn simple if you got some prep time, the big problem is noticing it in time.
You're american, aren't you?
>anyone working to prevent this
...in one word, no.
>someone spoon-feed me
Lrn2google fgt pls
>a large number of ground telescopes
L0Lno fgt pls