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- pleweickor, on 08/24/2008, -5/+79Sweet. Now all they need is Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ben Affleck.
- finalcloud33, on 08/25/2008, -1/+59Why don't we launch Brittany Spears into space with her legs open and have her catch it?
- Striss, on 08/25/2008, -1/+49I wish to subscribe to your scientific journal.
- Dipster, on 08/25/2008, -0/+44So.. this sheet.. just proves Paper beats Rock?
- ZackScott, on 08/25/2008, -11/+51I've always had many ideas on how to deflect asteroids. I came up with these ideas throughout my years because of my overwhelming fear of reliving dinosaur catastrophe! Dinotastrophe!
Anyway, I will present them below in a nice bullet block for you all to ingest:
(Note: Why deflect them when chance might dictate it will never hit you! That's why we must protect our Earth and Moon from impact, but not if the asteroid is going to miss 100%.Imagine if we deflected an asteroid and then it destroyed Mercury. But we didn't even need to do that! Now Imagine if we did that, and then 100 years later the asteroid destroyed another galaxy. Whoops!)
1. Ice bomb: Space is cold, but not as cold as our future ice bombs. Basically, this will stop the asteroid in its tracks (freezing it), and then it will get absorbed by Jupiter's gravity.
2. Heat bomb: The opposite of the ice bomb.
3. Air bomb: Basically, this will introduce wind into space. Since there is no wind in space other than solar wind, this new air wind will be mighty powerful because there is no anti-wind to counter it. It will blow the asteroid away into another galaxy with little effort.
4. Dimensional bomb: This one troubles me, but if it must be done, then it shall be done. Basically, we'll open up a vortex to another dimension so that another Earth has to deal with it. It worries me because now that I've thought of it, another Earth in another world has already thought of it and we will probably die this way :(.
5. Time bomb: Basically we send the asteroid for our future selves to deal with it when we have better technology. Or, we can send it to the past. When I think about it, I wonder if maybe we did that in the year 2029, and THAT'S what killed the dinos? - nosecohn, on 08/24/2008, -2/+38Who has the registered trademark on Earth? (See end of article)
- prunch, on 08/25/2008, -2/+32I would put the asteroid on the front page of Digg
Digg Effect kills EVERYTHING! - DeskFlyer, on 08/25/2008, -0/+28Well that's great, because we would otherwise be faced with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TdRgpGbbaY - Aerandir, on 08/25/2008, -0/+28Dugg for disturbing image in my head.
- waztinaz, on 08/25/2008, -0/+27Has anyone checked this over with Michael Bay?
- jun2san, on 08/25/2008, -1/+27I propose we build a huge trampoline to bounce the asteroid back into space upon impact!!
- fadetoone, on 08/25/2008, -0/+24http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
Wikipedia is your friend (when it's not vandalized).
Knowltey is incorrect in stating the Czar, or actually, Tsar, bomb was 50 Hiroshima bombs. Hiroshima was around 15 KILOtons, not megatons. Therefore Tsar was closer to 3,333 Hiroshima bombs. - GiJoeBob, on 08/25/2008, -1/+25Big deal.
I blew up Asteroids on my Atari 2600 all the time. - Erectile, on 08/25/2008, -0/+23What happens? Satire goes way over your head?
- LemonDefragger, on 08/25/2008, -1/+23WOW, you seem pretty knowledgeable. Are you a professor at MIT or something?
- freefoodisgood, on 08/25/2008, -1/+21I don't understand how wrapping it in Mylar will help. I understand that photons will be reflected instead of absorbed thus causing a shift in the asteroid's path, but how do you control something like that? With asteroids usually spinning on unstable axes it seems like the reflective coating could just as easily redirect its path straight into Earth. Anyone have more info?
- Shaggy3, on 08/25/2008, -5/+20Just let it hit, we deserve it.
- Falldog, on 08/25/2008, -1/+15"110,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs"
That's what with respect to today's nuclear devices? - Cndor, on 08/25/2008, -0/+13But I'm Le Tired.
- pakruse, on 08/25/2008, -0/+13For one brief moment, I believed you were serious. I need to spend less time on the Internet.
- mufasa, on 08/25/2008, -1/+12Chuck Norris.
- alexanEmpire, on 08/25/2008, -0/+10***** kangaroos.
- CosmoKramer, on 08/25/2008, -2/+12WTF Mate?
- GiggleStick, on 08/25/2008, -0/+8No, царь is the Russian spelling. Tsar is the closest English transliteration.
- ahhell, on 08/25/2008, -5/+13Uh....BHAHAHAA
"Basically we send the asteroid for our future selves to deal with it when we have better technology. Or, we can send it to the past. When I think about it, I wonder if maybe we did that in the year 2029, and THAT'S what killed the dinos?"
Are you for real? - jun2san, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7Huge shrimp is an oxymoron.
- AmyVernon, on 08/25/2008, -1/+8How realistic is this, though?
- Narcism, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Probably just the (R)egister symbol for the end of an article.
- kevinkitching, on 08/25/2008, -1/+71. Steal rejected script for bad sci-fi movie
2. Submit to science journal
3. Profit!!! - BorsKaegel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6I would prefer Harrison Ford and Aerosmith - we need a cool theme song for this mission.
- Chirp08, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Tell that to the guy who named Jumbo Shrimp
- Myztry, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6No it's not. It's Polyethylene Terephthalate which is the same plastic Australian softdrink bottle are made off. Litter to the rescue...
- ebcreasoner, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5galaxy
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. - Noize, on 08/25/2008, -4/+9AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!
- Squires, on 08/25/2008, -1/+6Feeling guilty about something Shaggy3?
- davewelsh79, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Close. Photons have no REST mass. Due to their energy, they do have a mass (m = E/c^2). Light exerts "light pressure". Given enough time, it can move asteroids. I don't know if 20 years or so is enough time, but I suppose the student thinks so.
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -2/+7You ever see those little pin wheel devices in a vacuum bulb, One side of the paddles is black, the other is white. Set it in the sun and it starts spinning?
I take it you've never taken a day of physics in your life. O.o - freezerburn666, on 08/25/2008, -2/+7ice bomb!
- GravyTrain6, on 08/25/2008, -3/+8oi oi oi
- jun2san, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Never seen that before. Thanks!
- DaHuuuuuudge, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5He knows that. He was asking how much it is in relation to today's nuclear devices.
- britblogger, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5those all sound like special weapon pickups in Worms.
- evilregis, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Hiroshima was about 15 kilotons. 110,000 Hiroshima bombs would be 1,650,000 kilotons which would be a 1.65 gigaton bomb. That's 33 Tsar bombs.
I hope that math is all right. - nathanww, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5What matters though is the total mass that hits Earth. If it broken up into small enough chunks that 90% of it burns up upon entry, you've mitigated the problem substantially.
- Darkaged, on 08/25/2008, -1/+6If you're surfing Digg in the middle of a meeting you may need to get a new job anyway.
- captdonno, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4steve buscemi, don't forget about him, he was the most entertaining part of that movie...
- Meursault, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5Why not throw a huge shrimp on it?
- Locnar, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4This Asteroid cannot be displayed...........
- iamnotbatman, on 08/25/2008, -2/+6Can someone explain to me how 'an PhD' is correct English? Can the 'P' be silent or what? Or is that a misprint?
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4Why would you tell people?
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