The world is coming to an end!

[UserLoser]

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

[Spht]

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

[Hitmen]

Nuke the commet!

[UserLoser]

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

[______]

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

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.

[iago]

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

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.

Depending on how small they are, they might burn up

[UserLoser]

Depending on how small they are, they might burn up

But according to the article, it's going to make it through the atmosphere :p

[Spht]

Depending on how small they are, they might burn up

But according to the article, it's going to make it through the atmosphere :p

iago is referring to the small pieces after the comet is blown up.

[MrRaza]

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.

[Soul Taker]

Yea cause that worked so well in The Dig =P

[MrRaza]

It did  

[iago]

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.

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.

[MrRaza]

I'll do some calculations later...

[Grok]

Closest Asteroid Yet Flies Past Earth

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

Jupiter is still pissed.

[UserLoser]

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