If and when "it" happens, I hope it's even bigger and just ends it all in minutes.
A prolonged extinction event would be nasty.
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Don't worry about it, you will not know it's coming.
Not after the sun sends a giant flare our way that fries every single satellite and electronic device, so we will be too distracted with trying to fix that to pay attention to the giant rock in the sky.
There's plenty of ways we can go without even know what is happening.
Any asteroids which which would be significant enough in size that are in a trajectory to impact the Earth are detected years in advance, which would allow for appropriate countermeasures to take effect. NASA currently rates the chance of a sizable asteroid hitting Earth in the next 100 years at 0.01%.
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Originally Posted By: Robbster
Any asteroids which which would be significant enough in size that are in a trajectory to impact the Earth are detected years in advance, which would allow for appropriate countermeasures to take effect. NASA currently rates the chance of a sizable asteroid hitting Earth in the next 100 years at 0.01%.
What countermeasures would those be? The only one I see is leaving the planet before the asteroid hits.
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Nah....too busy looking in the mirror telling himself how cool he looks for a zombie....I mean stone
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Been a conference in Vienna recently, it appears their is a group of high-profile privateers including Brian May, Richard Dawkins trying to generate funds to research anti-asteroid tech.
Any asteroids which which would be significant enough in size that are in a trajectory to impact the Earth are detected years in advance, which would allow for appropriate countermeasures to take effect. NASA currently rates the chance of a sizable asteroid hitting Earth in the next 100 years at 0.01%.
What countermeasures would those be? The only one I see is leaving the planet before the asteroid hits.
NASA has secretly been working on massive chaff and flares. They're sure to spoof it.
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Any asteroids which which would be significant enough in size that are in a trajectory to impact the Earth are detected years in advance, which would allow for appropriate countermeasures to take effect. NASA currently rates the chance of a sizable asteroid hitting Earth in the next 100 years at 0.01%.
While I'm sure that is the case most of the time, aren't there cases of ones that "slip through" like when they come from the direction of the sun? I'm sure I read or saw somewhere that there have been a few near misses, ones even coming between the Earth and the Moon distance, these were only detected at the last minute when if it were going to hit we wouldn't have any time to do anything.
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Originally Posted By: 3instein
these were only detected at the last minute when if it were going to hit we wouldn't have any time to do anything.
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I don't think any of these were large enough to cause an extinction level event though.
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Of course, it begs the question of how small can they be to make stopping them more costly than letting them through? Wiping out a city? A nation? A tsunami that wipes out half the coastal areas on the planet? At what point is it worth spending billions to stop vs just picking up the pieces later?
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Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
Of course, it begs the question of how small can they be to make stopping them more costly than letting them through? Wiping out a city? A nation? A tsunami that wipes out half the coastal areas on the planet? At what point is it worth spending billions to stop vs just picking up the pieces later?
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That's a very good question. That meteorite that crashed in Russia a couple years ago, what would have been the damage and carnage had it crashed into the middle of NYC instead?
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Certainly greater, but how much so? It was also undetected until it was too late to stop it. Will we need SAM batteries protecting all major metro areas to get the ones that size? Also, modern SAMs have smaller warheads than would be needed as they're designed to damage a fragile airplane doing Mach 2 or less, not stop a giant rock doing Mach 4+. We'd need a whole new class of super fast, super powerful SAMs to stop those.
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I found this info about the "Chelyabinsk meteorite".
With an estimated initial mass of about 12,00013,000 metric tonnes[7][8][9] (13,00014,000 short tons, heavier than the Eiffel Tower), and measuring about 20 metres in diameter, it is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, which destroyed a wide, remote, forested area of Siberia. The Chelyabinsk meteor is also the only meteor confirmed to have resulted in a large number of injuries. No deaths were reported.
The meteorite actually went through an airburst detonation and never made it to the ground. Fortunately.
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