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Originally posted by ColAngus
reply to post by mockrock
And when NOTHING happens, will you be back here on the 10th or 12th or whatever the "day after" is for your current doomsday to apologize for being an irrefutable fear mongerer? Or will you claim "ATS effect!!1!" and move on to the next horse# theory that you nick from Youtube?
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by mockrock
You are getting all hot an bothered because of that stupid site you linked??
Well, that explains it.
Really, you need to learn some critical thinking skills of your own, and not rely so heavily on scenarios that are created from imagination. This is not to say that the idea for using objects such as asteroids as potential weapons is not invalid.....it has been often written in many a science fiction story. Even a trilogy I can think of that suggested using comets that are steered to impact Mars, to bring water to that planet for terra-forming.
Problem is, though....for your conviction that it *is going to happen* in a week is......
Today, any power that can boast interplanetary spaceflight capability can use asteroid impactors as weapons.
....you quoted that from the website, and do not realize that no spacecraft has ever been launched from Earth to rendezvous with 2005 YU55!!!
Since every space launch is well known (a bit hard to keep "secret"), and many various people and agencies are monitoring space, there would have been some hint, long ago (to allow for travel time) of some such mission to the asteroid.
Furthermore....the idea of mounting something on the asteroid to provide thrust capability to alter its trajectory is, at this point in time, major science fiction, AND would require a manned mission most probably. The whole thing would have to be designed, engineered, tested....etc. Space technology does not get created out of thin air.
I blame Hollywood in general, and Bruce Willis in particular ( ) for making it seem all *too easy* (as in that appallingly bad film "Armageddon", from 1998.
Gawd, that was horrible from a scientific standpoint. Crap like it poisons the minds of people who don't understand reality.
Originally posted by mockrock
Originally posted by Essan
reply to post by Argyll
And in any cases, wouldn't it make much more sense to hold the exercise before the event, so that should the event occur, everyone knows what to do and any problems that might arise have aready been spotted and dealt with?
You don't wait until the building is burning down to hold a fire drill!
The exercise is not to save us.. it is so we don't panic when we see troop movements, emergency services..
fwiw though, we don't know what the x37b robot has been doing up there; its top secret. it may have deployed a secondary object for all we know. It has a very spacious interior. They wouldn't even say when its mission ends.
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by mockrock
....you quoted that from the website, and do not realize that no spacecraft has ever been launched from Earth to rendezvous with 2005 YU55!!!
Since every space launch is well known (a bit hard to keep "secret"), and many various people and agencies are monitoring space, there would have been some hint, long ago (to allow for travel time) of some such mission to the asteroid.
Furthermore....the idea of mounting something on the asteroid to provide thrust capability to alter its trajectory is, at this point in time, major science fiction, AND would require a manned mission most probably. The whole thing would have to be designed, engineered, tested....etc. Space technology does not get created out of thin air.
I blame Hollywood in general, and Bruce Willis in particular ( ) for making it seem all *too easy* (as in that appallingly bad film "Armageddon", from 1998.
Gawd, that was horrible from a scientific standpoint. Crap like it poisons the minds of people who don't understand reality.
fwiw though, we don't know what the x37b robot has been doing up there; its top secret.
.... it may have deployed a secondary object for all we know. It has a very spacious interior.
Specifications
General characteristics
......
Length: 29 ft 3 in (8.9 m)
Wingspan: 14 ft 11 in (4.5 m)
Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)
Loaded weight: 11,000 lb (4,990 kg)
Power: Gallium arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries[1]
Payload Bay: 7 × 4 ft (2.1 × 1.2 m)
fwiw though, we don't know what the x37b robot has been doing up there; its top secret. it may have deployed a secondary object for all we know. It has a very spacious interior. They wouldn't even say when its mission ends.
Originally posted by jeichelberg
States that YU55 will not strike Earth...there is more here, including a diagram of the projected path...it will pass within .0022 AU, roughly 300Km from Earth...
neo.jpl.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by DJW001
So, mockrock, what are you planning to do with your time later this month? You will have exhausted the possibilities of 2005 YU55 in the same way that C/2010X-1 fizzled. What's next? Please give us a preview.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by mockrock
APEC is on the 12th to the 13th. 2005 YU55 makes its closest pass on the 8th. The two are not connected in anyway. Furthermore, you once again forget that there will be no European leaders there.