500m wide asteroid has a 1-in-1800 chance off colliding with Earth in 2182, Canada partners with NAS
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[QUOTE=Sableye;45428725]probably a sun-spot and a big solar flair, not much else, remember the sun is big but unstable[/QUOTE]
No.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;45426830]Yeah I agree, let's wait until we're sure it's gonna hit us so that it's too late to do anything about it.
Also did you somehow not see the part about actually studying the asteroid at the same time?[/QUOTE]
... at the same time?
they're just collecting samples and mapping its geometry, not pushing it away or anything
Nobody?
Nobody??? Really?
Fine. I'll do it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE[/media]
[QUOTE=Sableye;45428725]
probably a sun-spot and a big solar flair, not much else, remember the sun is big but unstable[/QUOTE]
What? Your pulling that right out of your ass.
[THUMB]https://www.windows2universe.org/sun/images/sun_jove_earth_size_compare.jpg[/THUMB]
[I]Just for comparision assuming for one second that we live in a universe where it would be possible for the asteroid to get near the surface without disintegrating.[/I]
The sun is 1,391,684 km wide, earth is 12,742 km wide, and the asteroid is 0.5km wide. Tell me exactly how this asteroid would cause a "big solar flare". It would not be able to get near the surface without disintegrating long before that because of the intense heat.
What do you even mean by unstable? Comparatively to other stars like it, it is quite stable.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;45428418]Man 2182 sounds so futuristic. I feel weird now.[/QUOTE]
Even in Battlefield their game only went as far as 2142.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;45428418]Man 2182 sounds so futuristic. I feel weird now.[/QUOTE]
Honestly either we'll all be dead by that point, or technology will have reached a level that this thing won't be the slightest threat. Probably. Society might regress for some reason, I suppose.
2182 isn't as far away as you may think.
[QUOTE=matt000024;45432085]2182 isn't as far away as you may think.[/QUOTE]
168 years ago we didn't even have automobiles. Now we've put people on the moon and created the internet. I don't doubt for a second that, barring the collapse/major regression of civilization, we'll be able to deal with one asteroid no problem in that amount of time.
I curiously crunched some numbers and unless my math was somehow wrong this meteor would effectively be the same as:
Dropping 375,000 nuclear bombs the size of Little Boy on Earth.
The quick comparison I did:
This meteor is equivalent to 6 Gigatonnes of TNT (6x10^9)
Little Boy was only 16 Kilotonnes (16x10^3)
For those of you unaware, Little Boy is the nuclear bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;45425553]Build a Tim Hortons on it[/QUOTE]
It's the Canadian equivalent of placing a flag
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