Should the u.s. prepare for collision threats from space?

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There are insignificant meteoroids that impact the planet Earth regularly, in spit out how big space is relative to out size.

Asteroids much larger object pass as close to us a several hundred thousand miles.

That's close.

Since the U.S. take the ends up doing most things, should we have a plan for either deflecting out these natural threats from space ?

Most people spend no time contemplating this, but the truth is that it is real.

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  • charli.m
    4 years ago

    Sure, I mean...they have to be running out of shit to blow the military budget on, right?

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  • chuy
    4 years ago

    I bet there is a plan to save the wealthy, rich and important people not the general population.

    Unless you're fit into any of the groups previously mentioned, you're SOL.

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  • yumri
    4 years ago

    Really to turn one away enough you will have to start before it even entered the solar system. So even if the UN countries worked together to get something to do that as it takes a day to 2 days to get a message that far away then a day to 2 days for the response from the machine. It most likely isn't going to happen.
    Now for not extrication level space objects most of them just burn up in the atmosphere.

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  • Seriouslythough
    4 years ago

    If it happens, I'll be asleep dreaming about....

    "@#$&_+"

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  • McBean
    4 years ago

    Given the astronomically low probability of this occurring multiplied by the astronomically high destruction, I'll say a budget of $750,000 would be appropriate. We should map all near earth asteroid orbits and create an orbital path simulation to find possible collisions in the next thousand years.

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  • Wellyoudliketoknoweh
    4 years ago

    Jup
    I mean even when it’s just gonna be like with the dinosaurs, we’re gonna die with a lot of pain

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  • dimwitted
    4 years ago

    I don't want them to do anything. I think it would be interesting to see what would happen.

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  • SmokeEverything
    4 years ago

    Anything NASA tells you is 100% fake, I'm sure they'll have some kind of space debris themed psyop in the news at some point. The actualy truth is that no, none of that shit is real.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      4 years ago

      It doesn't come from NASA. It comes from the astronomy community internationally. both professional and independent.

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      • SmokeEverything
        4 years ago

        Independents don't have the technology and the professionals are con artists. If craters come from space rocks why do they all look as if the rock came down at a 90 degree angle perpendicular to the ground?

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        • Boojum
          4 years ago

          I know from your previous posts that your beliefs are pretty much impervious to logic and you believe anyone who has studied some particular branch of science for decades knows no more about the topic than what your common sense tells you is true.

          Nonetheless, your point intrigued me, so I did a few minutes' research into why meteoroid impact craters tend to be circular, thus giving the impression of a perpendicular impact. Here's the explanation given on Quora by someone who identifies himself as a professor of geosciences for 36 years:

          "When the meteor hits, all its kinetic energy turns into heat. That process has no memory of the initial direction of travel. The heat melts and vaporizes the surrounding rock and a shock wave radiates outward. For a very large impact, the forces are so far in excess of the strength of rock that the rock is pushed out of the way as if it’s water. This is distinct from melting, which also happens. In fact, some very good analogies for impact processes are slow motion photos of drops splashing.

          "So unless the impact is very oblique, craters are circular."

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          • megadriver
            4 years ago

            This^

            I can not stand it when someone tries to drag a legendary scientific community's name (In our case NASA, or space agencies in general) through the mud.

            The cutting edge of technology goes into space and military. In an ideal world it would go more towards space and less towards slightly improved versions of past military equipment, but whatever.

            The space agencies, thousands of scientists and all the brave men and women that went out there in the dangerous blackness are heroes! Doing their best to advance humanity and turn us into a proper spacefaring civilization.

            Asteroid strikes are a real threat to all of humanity and investing in a space defense grid is definitely a good idea.

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          • Sunshinegirl
            4 years ago

            Great post.

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          • SmokeEverything
            4 years ago

            That's an interesting idea. I'd like to know if this is based off of an experiment or just purely theoretical. The problem with the religion of science is that in situations where nobody can actually recreate the situation to do an experiment they tend to just make up a theory that explains the conclusion they already have. Einstein was great at that.

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  • Doesnormalmatter
    4 years ago

    No.

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  • cotton059ball
    4 years ago

    Please do asap. On second thoughts, fk it. The world is in a pretty bad shape. Needs a reset. Spare cute kids n animals though. :)

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