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In the name of planetary defense
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NASA slams spacecraft into asteroid. If this technology was available a gazillion years ago we wouldn't be dependent on oil today.


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Re: In the name of planetary defense [axlsix3] [ In reply to ]
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I watched the recap of the hit yesterday. I am continually floored by the level of accuracy these missions show is possible. Launching a 24,000 mph vending machine at a rock in space and hitting your target is a phenomenal feat. I look forward to the results to see if and how much that rock got moved.

And, if we had this tech a gazillion years ago, it's likely we wouldn't be here either.






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Re: In the name of planetary defense [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Tri-Banter wrote:
I watched the recap of the hit yesterday. I am continually floored by the level of accuracy these missions show is possible. Launching a 24,000 mph vending machine at a rock in space and hitting your target is a phenomenal feat. I look forward to the results to see if and how much that rock got moved.

And, if we had this tech a gazillion years ago, it's likely we wouldn't be here either.

I have this feeling that I can't shake that we've moved it such that it will now be on a collision course with earth.

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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BLeP wrote:
Tri-Banter wrote:
I watched the recap of the hit yesterday. I am continually floored by the level of accuracy these missions show is possible. Launching a 24,000 mph vending machine at a rock in space and hitting your target is a phenomenal feat. I look forward to the results to see if and how much that rock got moved.

And, if we had this tech a gazillion years ago, it's likely we wouldn't be here either.


I have this feeling that I can't shake that we've moved it such that it will now be on a collision course with earth.

Don't worry. That will be possible someday too.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Tri-Banter wrote:
I watched the recap of the hit yesterday. I am continually floored by the level of accuracy these missions show is possible. Launching a 24,000 mph vending machine at a rock in space and hitting your target is a phenomenal feat. I look forward to the results to see if and how much that rock got moved.

And, if we had this tech a gazillion years ago, it's likely we wouldn't be here either.

An interesting take.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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BLeP wrote:
Tri-Banter wrote:
And, if we had this tech a gazillion years ago, it's likely we wouldn't be here either.


I have this feeling that I can't shake that we've moved it such that it will now be on a collision course with earth.

Wherever it going, it's very possible that it will run into something, someday

Maybe 65 million years ago [give or take a million] someone someplace steered an asteroid away from their planet, and it ended up crashing into ours? Could we have just done the same to someone else?

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Re: In the name of planetary defense [RandMart] [ In reply to ]
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Does this fall into the " don't mess with mother nature" theme?
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [gofigure] [ In reply to ]
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DART was a cocky little bitch

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Re: In the name of planetary defense [gofigure] [ In reply to ]
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takes her time with the payback, but when she does . . .
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [gofigure] [ In reply to ]
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gofigure wrote:
Tri-Banter wrote:
And, if we had this tech a gazillion years ago, it's likely we wouldn't be here either.


An interesting take.

Not only from a mass extinction POV, but also that the current thinking is that all of the water on Earth came from icy comets & asteroids; shove them out of the way and Earth is waterless [unless, maybe you can create H2O from hydrogen + oxygen + lightning? I'm not sure about that one]

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Re: In the name of planetary defense [axlsix3] [ In reply to ]
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [sdbanker] [ In reply to ]
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It's amazing what our brains can remember. I wouldn't have seen that game for an incredibly long period of time, but those game sounds (in particular the UFO) and it was like 'yes'.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [axlsix3] [ In reply to ]
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Now we won't have to send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck into outer space to save earth.


I guess the "Don't Look Up" movie storyline just became obsolete as well.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [sdbanker] [ In reply to ]
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Yeah, I don't know why these guys are all excited. I've been doing this for 50 years.

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [RandMart] [ In reply to ]
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Maybe 65 million years ago [give or take a million] someone someplace steered an asteroid away from their planet, and it ended up crashing into ours? Could we have just done the same to someone else?
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It's highly unlikely that changing an asteroids path by 1-2% will cause it to be flung out of our solar system, through interstellar space, into another solar system, and collide with an inner planet. It would more likely continue to orbit the sun, just on a slightly different path. Our Voyager missions showed that leaving the solar system is possible but takes a lot of planning and angles/ velocities to exit the solar sphere.

And if they actually did that, humans should be sending them flowers or a shiny golden CD. The destruction of the climate and removal of the large lizard/ bird thingies with big teeths paved the way for small, warm-blooded rats to take over the planet.






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Re: In the name of planetary defense [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Yeah, it's highly unlikely that a bunch of clever monkeys using sophisticated tools could do anything like that on purpose, but we're just stupid enough to do it by accident/dumb luck

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Re: In the name of planetary defense [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Tri-Banter wrote:
Maybe 65 million years ago [give or take a million] someone someplace steered an asteroid away from their planet, and it ended up crashing into ours? Could we have just done the same to someone else?
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It's highly unlikely that changing an asteroids path by 1-2% will cause it to be flung out of our solar system, through interstellar space, into another solar system, and collide with an inner planet. It would more likely continue to orbit the sun, just on a slightly different path. Our Voyager missions showed that leaving the solar system is possible but takes a lot of planning and angles/ velocities to exit the solar sphere.

And if they actually did that, humans should be sending them flowers or a shiny golden CD. The destruction of the climate and removal of the large lizard/ bird thingies with big teeths paved the way for small, warm-blooded rats to take over the planet.

I think they prefer the term "Republican."

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [SDG] [ In reply to ]
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SDG wrote:
I guess the "Don't Look Up" movie storyline just became obsolete as well.

Actually no. In the movie they plan a mission like that, but then abort it because they think they can make a profit from mining the asteroid instead (which goes wrong). That's kind of the point of the movie.
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Re: In the name of planetary defense [malte] [ In reply to ]
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malte wrote:
SDG wrote:
I guess the "Don't Look Up" movie storyline just became obsolete as well.

Actually no. In the movie they plan a mission like that, but then abort it because they think they can make a profit from mining the asteroid instead (which goes wrong). That's kind of the point of the movie.

It was an allegory. SDG knows this. The somewhat mixed critical reception of the movie and lack of understanding of the layered meanings is a higher level abstraction of the same allegory IMO. Very meta, the responses to the movie could have been in the actual movie itself, which was also the point.

Don’t Look Up is playing out in real time right now… replace “asteroid” with “fascism” and “mining” with “cashing in” and you’ve got a good movie. Throw in the “are we the baddies?” meme and the “I’m not a Nazi or fascist, I’m just conservative” meme and you’ve got an Oscar winner. Bonus for a Cassandra reference.

At any rate, JPL gets shit done once again. Culture of winning. Mission Control and their culture manage to keep mucking up the Artemis mission.

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Re: In the name of planetary defense [sdbanker] [ In reply to ]
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