Nasa admit huge asteroid could destroy Earth in just NINETEEN years

[Blazyd]

Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?

Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.


Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.

[Dante]

Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?

Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.


Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.

You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?

[Tictactoe360]

Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?

Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.


Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.

You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?

What would you suggest?
America wastes another several billion dollars to send a nuke into space, towards an asteroid that could potentially shift its course at any time due to a number of things. That also has a almost .5% chance of hitting us in 19 years.

It's a waste of money and a bad idea in general.
If it's going to hit us, it'll hit us, maybe it won't be one big one anymore, it'll just be thousands/hundreds of smaller ones capable of hitting a much larger area.

Unless someone manages to come up a better solution in the next 19 years, there's no proper way to stop an asteroid especially one of that size.

[Cortez (Mr. T. FOO!)]

If the asteroid is big a nuclear bomb will do shit all. Even if you do manage to blow up it up the fragments will still be big enough and fast enough to cause an apocalyptic event. It would only take an asteroid the size of an american football field to destroy the ecosystem.

[Inject OH 4]

Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?

Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.


Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.

You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?

What would you suggest?
America wastes another several billion dollars to send a nuke into space, towards an asteroid that could potentially shift its course at any time due to a number of things. That also has a almost .5% chance of hitting us in 19 years.

It's a waste of money and a bad idea in general.
If it's going to hit us, it'll hit us, maybe it won't be one big one anymore, it'll just be thousands/hundreds of smaller ones capable of hitting a much larger area.

Unless someone manages to come up a better solution in the next 19 years, there's no proper way to stop an asteroid especially one of that size.

There already is better solutions. If within 10 years or 18 years we know for a fact if it will hit or not NASA will send it of course, and not explode it. Is actually not that hard. Theres videos on this. It's all been done before. easy peasy.

[raddude-pancake ruler]

This is another bullshit doomsday story. It's will be the same as y2k and 2012 after it doesn't happen there will be a new doomsday story for people to worry about.

[Tictactoe360]

This is another bullshit doomsday story. It's will be the same as y2k and 2012 after it doesn't happen there will be a new doomsday story for people to worry about.

Isn't this our 7th apocalypse prediction in the last 15 years?

[Old Crow]

This is another bullshit doomsday story. It's will be the same as y2k and 2012 after it doesn't happen there will be a new doomsday story for people to worry about.

Isn't this our 7th apocalypse prediction in the last 15 years?

20th if your part of a cult.

[Dante]

Even if that .1% chance happened, couldn't we just nuke it?

Causing billions of meteorites to rain all over earth and cause widespread damage? I don't think so.


Also, it's more like 1 in 60,000 chance that it'll actually hit earth. There's a better chance of this asteroid striking earth than you winning basically any lottery.

You can blow it up super far away from earth. Or did everyone forget that?

What would you suggest?
America wastes another several billion dollars to send a nuke into space, towards an asteroid that could potentially shift its course at any time due to a number of things. That also has a almost .5% chance of hitting us in 19 years.

It's a waste of money and a bad idea in general.
If it's going to hit us, it'll hit us, maybe it won't be one big one anymore, it'll just be thousands/hundreds of smaller ones capable of hitting a much larger area.

Unless someone manages to come up a better solution in the next 19 years, there's no proper way to stop an asteroid especially one of that size.

I am saying we threaten the Meteor with nuclear warfare till we know it will miss or not and if it would hit we nuke it in such a way that it either doesn't exist or goes off course.

Spoiler for Hidden:

That or we get a bunch of wizards and teleport onto the Meteor fighting the Banes on it with the assistance of garou.

[Finniespin]

It would only take an asteroid the size of an american football field to destroy the ecosystem.

How big was the meteor in russia?

[Inject OH 4]

It would only take an asteroid the size of an american football field to destroy the ecosystem.

How big was the meteor in russia?

"1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake"
Not big.

[Finniespin]

"1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake"
Not big.

What was the estimated initial size before it went into the atmo burn?

[crovv]

"1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake"
Not big.

What was the estimated initial size before it went into the atmo burn?

Here's the quote from Wikipedia (doing college stuff at the minute, else I'd research it more):

"With an estimated initial mass of about 10,000 tonnes (11,000 short tons ...), and measuring between 17 and 20 metres in size..." [source]

Spoiler for Hidden:

The atmosphere absorbed most of the object's energy, with a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact equivalent to approximately 440 kilotons of TNT (about 1.8 PJ), 20–30 times more energy than was released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima, and about 10% greater than the former Soviet Union's own RDS-6s "fusion boosted" nuclear device's test detonation on August 12, 1953.

With an estimated initial mass of about 10,000 tonnes (11,000 short tons, heavier than the Eiffel Tower), and measuring between 17 and 20 metres in size, it is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event that 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.

[Leetgrain]

Guess nobody really agrees with my point on not caring (well, not a point, really), and just living life regularly for those nineteen years. There's no point worrying if it's bound to hit or not, because if chances are that it does hit, either we'll find a way to stop it, or it will be instantaneous, and most definitely non-painful.

[crovv]

Guess nobody really agrees with my point on not caring (well, not a point, really), and just living life regularly for those nineteen years. There's no point worrying if it's bound to hit or not, because if chances are that it does hit, either we'll find a way to stop it, or it will be instantaneous, and most definitely non-painful.

This.

I also thought your original post was (insert synonym for good here), but hadn't had a chance to reply.