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European space officials are considering sending a spacecraft to smash into a small asteroid — one of the pair of orbiting rocks, named Didymos, that will sail closely past the Earth in 2022 — to see if they can throw them off course,
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
sounds like a great thing to waste money on... oh oopps it changed direction... towards earth now we all die.. thanks EU for taking it upond yourself to smash things into asteroids.
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
sounds like a great thing to waste money on... oh oopps it changed direction... towards earth now we all die.. thanks EU for taking it upond yourself to smash things into asteroids.
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
reply to post by ngchunter
who cares.. how about feeding all of the starving people and taking care of homeless first then if there is leftover crash things into space... we have been here for quite some time without smashing things into things in space I would thing that you would have a better chance messing things up then just leaving things alone and letting things work the way they do.
Why do we deserve to keep on living anyway if we cannot even help our fellow humans live even the simplest of lives and be happy, what is the point.
also ever hear the expression.. if it aint broke dont try to fix it...edit on 18-1-2013 by dc4lifeskater because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
reply to post by ngchunter
who cares.. how about feeding all of the starving people and taking care of homeless first then if there is leftover crash things into space...
we have been here for quite some time without smashing things into things in space
I would thing that you would have a better chance messing things up then just leaving things alone and letting things work the way they do.
Why do we deserve to keep on living anyway if we cannot even help our fellow humans live even the simplest of lives and be happy, what is the point.
Originally posted by zedVSzardoz
reply to post by goou111
I mean, they can know how much mass an asteroid has,