Both here and here have some interesting stuff, does anybody here believe it?

Hey! This isn't fun - we're all gonna die! AHH!

Nuke the commet!

I don't think nuking a comet would be a good idea, especially if it was close to Earth!

[quote author=UserLoser link=board=4;threadid=2875;start=0#msg22483 date=1064777701]
I don't think nuking a comet would be a good idea, especially if it was close to Earth!
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which would be worse... The comet hits Earth or nuking the comet? my guess hitting the earth...but then tons of shards from the comet will hit the earth. :-\

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[quote author=UserLoser link=board=4;threadid=2875;start=0#msg22483 date=1064777701]
I don't think nuking a comet would be a good idea, especially if it was close to Earth!
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which would be worse... The comet hits Earth or nuking the comet? my guess hitting the earth...but then tons of shards from the comet will hit the earth. :-\
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Depending on how small they are, they might burn up :)

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Depending on how small they are, they might burn up :)
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But according to the article, it's going to make it through the atmosphere :p

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[quote author=iago link=board=4;threadid=2875;start=0#msg22492 date=1064781211]
Depending on how small they are, they might burn up :)
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But according to the article, it's going to make it through the atmosphere :p
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Iago is referring to the small pieces after the comet is blown up.

Using Ion Propulsion as used in the Deep Space 1 mission. You could land a spacecraft onto the asteroid.
Then somehow "grabbing" itself onto the asteroid and propelling it as a whole, just enough so that it would miss its path with earth.

Yea cause that worked so well in The Dig =P

It did ;)

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Using Ion Propulsion as used in the Deep Space 1 mission. You could land a spacecraft onto the asteroid.
Then somehow "grabbing" itself onto the asteroid and propelling it as a whole, just enough so that it would miss its path with earth.
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That would work, but you would have to start turning it many years before it hit the earth because of the mass, and the chances of it being spotted that early are basically nil with the current budget invested in looking for doomsday asteroids.

I'll do some calculations later...

Closest Asteroid Yet Flies Past Earth

http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/10/03/028213.shtml?tid=134&tid=160

Jupiter is still pissed.

That'd be really cool if there was life on Jupiter, and they're sending astroids in our direction!

lol 7 women fight over 1 man I like those proportions. The one site says 2031 will have a comet the other an asteroid, why can't they even agree.

Did anyone visit the author's other sites listed at the bottom, they make them seem like even more of a nut case, with some wierd theories.

lol i also noticed nothing is mentioned of Canada, maybe we decide to sit this World War 3 thing out.

And has anyone seen the condition of the Russian military, i don't think they could last out in combat that long.

PS what you guys doing in 3850?