• Nasa to pretend asteroid is about to smash into Earth
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nasa-asteroid-earth-defence-hazardous-near-object-planetary-defence-a8888256.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7386
Exercise already started and they're really going for it. I can already feel the shaking in here. I can't wait to see how they deal with it.
"Pretend" yeeaahhh huh totally, it's just hypothetical no alarms no worries!!!!!11 For real though, this is good. I felt like we've been dragging our feet too long on planning how to deal with such things. Yeah sure, discussed bits here and there, but no actual "drills" like this. I don't wanna die from an asteroid impact plz.
As much as that scenario intrigues the living hell out of me, the whole "all of us go down at once," I agree it's about time we start figuring it out if it were to become an actual threat. That's the type of disaster that affects everyone, no matter religious or political affiliation. Hell, would probably bring a lot of people together facing something like that.
They're just preparing for the possibility of Giant Meteor 2020.
If the election ends up being Biden vs Trump, we honestly deserve it.
Alright, which country gets to have Stonehenge? On an unrelated note, I hear Farbanti is great around this time of year
Please let a real one hit. I'm so tired.
You could say the same about climate change, but look where we are...
Eh, I can see the difference. People can disguise climate change under the guise of greed and successfully brainwash some of the public, but a big rock in the sky? That's way more in-your-face.
Nah, people won't be able to see the asteroid with their own eyes. There will absolutely be people who deny its existence.
By we I assume you mean just America, please don't include the rest of us, we'll get destroyed by another meteor instead, thanks.
Yeah? Well you guys've been electing the same queen for the last 67 years in a row. Pfft.
SAME 67!!11
The brexit meteor?
No. Your Mum instead.
China will make the first prototype before it is given out like candy, the United States will get one, Australia will get one, Turkey for some reason will get one, Namibia and Argentina will also get one. According to Infinity anyway.
Preparing for when 9942 Apophis comes to kill us all in 2029, good thinking.
99942 The music in that intro though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxwIGsAfew Thankfully this event has been completely ruled out IRL, and the asteroid in game is way bigger than it actually is in real life, but even so I'm still mad they never released the song to this
This is honestly cool as hell. I've always wondered what the governments of the world would do in the exigent circumstance of a confirmed imminent asteroid collision into the Earth. It's high time someone got on the ball doing this and seeing NASA do it is pretty comforting. This is honestly one of my few true mortal fears because if it happens, we're completely screwed and there probably will be no surviving it, not to mention the lasting damage done to infrastructure and the ability to feed people after the event. There's a lot of shit to take a closer look at here, and having a contingency in the case of it happening is always a good idea.
The way they say "tabletop exercise" makes me think a bunch of nerds are there playing a roleplaying a game under some tabletop RPG system where the scenario is the asteroid is coming and they have to either stop it or fix the problems that come from the asteroid crashing. "The shockwave from the asteroid's crash has come to your house, and it's ruining everything, to say the least. A chunk of your own ceiling is about to fall upon you. Roll your Reflex save."
We have the technology and money, why we don't prioritize a global shield to blast rocks that are still far away to slightly alter their orbit if need be is beyond me. It's a very real threat. Just look at the moon, even parts of earth. Big ones do, and WILL, hit
Bush do your thing
https://pics.me.me/the-internet-dont-care-about-shit-if-the-world-was-18770917.png
Are they going to be using Bruce Willis this time? How has there not been a single reference to deep impact?
That was Armageddon, my man. The one where Liv Tyler has a steamy sex scene while her dad's band's song plays in the background.
This. Please just end us all already. We fucked up, god, can we try again? Maybe with less assholes this time?
be the change you want to see
I like escapist fantasy worlds as much as anyone, but doesn't NASA have anything better to do?
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