Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_asteroid_encounter
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MOSCOW – Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent its collision with Earth — a collision NASA considers highly unlikely — the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday.
Anatoly Perminov said the space agency will hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis, telling Golos Rossii radio that it would invite NASA, the European Space Agency, the Chinese space agency and others to join the project once it is finalized.
When the 270-meter (885-foot) asteroid was first discovered in 2004, astronomers estimated the chances of it smashing into Earth in its first flyby in 2029 were as high as 1-in-37, but have since lowered their estimate.
Further studies ruled out the possibility of an impact in 2029, when the asteroid is expected to come no closer than 18,300 miles (29,450 kilometers) above Earth's surface, but they indicated a small possibility of a hit on subsequent encounters.
In October, NASA lowered the odds that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 from a 1-in-45,000 as earlier thought to a 1-in-250,000 chance after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path. It said another close encounter in 2068 will involve a 1-in-330,000 chance of impact.
"It wasn't anything to worry about before. Now it's even less so," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Without mentioning NASA conclusions, Perminov said that he heard from a scientist that Apophis is getting closer and may hit the planet. "I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032," Perminov said.
"People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people," Perminov said.
Scientists have long theorized about asteroid deflection strategies. Some have proposed sending a probe to circle around a dangerous asteroid to gradually change its trajectory. Others suggested sending a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid and alter its momentum, or using nuclear weapons to hit it.
Perminov wouldn't disclose any details of the project, saying they still need to be worked out. But he said the mission wouldn't require any nuclear explosions.
Hollywood action films "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," have featured space missions scrambling to avoid catastrophic collisions. In both movies space crews use nuclear bombs in an attempt to prevent collisions.
"Calculations show that it's possible to create a special purpose spacecraft within the time we have, which would help avoid the collision without destroying it (the asteroid) and without detonating any nuclear charges," Perminov said. "The threat of collision can be averted."
Boris Shustov, the director of the Institute of Astronomy under the Russian Academy of Sciences, hailed Perminov's statement as a signal that officials had come to recognize the danger posed by asteroids.
"Apophis is just a symbolic example, there are many other dangerous objects we know little about," he said, according to RIA Novosti news agency.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_asteroid_encounter
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Mr_Ben
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If it aint gonna hit us then isn't this a waste of cash that could be better spent elsewhere. But I think we should have some sort of defense just in case there's one out there heading our way we have not seen yet.
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Mr_Ben
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Haida_Nur
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i think our modern techno can save us...how bout doing mobile suits like one in the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series and send them with nukes instead sacrificing more astronauts in space...i noe it sounds stupid but what the hell if we did not try in making one? its better than sending spacecrafts right? what do u think guys?
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Haida_Nur
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Haida_Nur
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there will be a 'miss' impact on 2029...means theres 9 years frm now 'till the big finale asteroid charge in our earth which is approximately about...16 years frm now...the large impact which can cleanse off humanity frm earth in other words kills everything alive...by this time, i suggest all space agencies should try somewhat...u noe...follow up abit with imaginary and animation...like Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series...create something tht can hold out this impact frm getting intact with our earth...i know it sounds stupid and unacceptable but...in reality...i think we can already make one of those gundam suits because of our modern techno and modern use of nuclear powers...whaddya think? good?
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Haida_Nur
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Buddha2112
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Let the asteroid hit.
It's not like we're a wonderfully gifted planet, how long did it take us as a species to reach space? And when the hell did we all OK that certain people can just fuck around with space objects? Nobody owns them, what if one were to bid on the asteroid and then the highest bidder decides the outcome? That would be interesting.
Honestly I'd rather be taken out by this asteroid quick and easy, rather than wait for mankind to slowly leech this planet to death, or blow us all up anyway.
Sorry. That's my last debby downer moment before the new year.
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Buddha2112
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JeremySampson
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Yeah the same thing for that too... just seems like everyone is like... "Well who cares" lol
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Psymoniac
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explains the spirals in the sky^^
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Psymoniac
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JeremySampson
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@Varex_Sythe... That just made me feel like we shouldn't even bother the asteroid LOL! Especially the fact that scientist say that it's very unlikely of it hitting earth... and just knock it right in front of Earth! LOL
But this is a very strange event.... They seem to not be so hectic about this situation though... You would think everyone would come together and be like "LETS SAVE EARTH!"
But instead there like... "You know what let's not worry too much but just shoot a missile and knock it off." The danger level of this just doesn't even seem to be present with anyone.
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DJMatt2
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But can they do it without an Aerosmith soundtrack? And besides, the current paranoia-of-the-moment says that the end of the world will be in 2012, either by Mayan prophecy or some re-re-re-re-re-interpretation of the Book of Revelations, or through anarchy brought about by the global collapse of the world economy, or by... oh heck, I could be here all day going through the various death-wish fantasies.
And that's the point... because if we're worried about death, then we're not worried about the other problems in the world.
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DJMatt2
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Gravity_Man
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DJMatt2:
Death Wish fantasies? Who th' heck has a death wish? Not the Mayans, not the Hopi and certainly not Bible writers. They all project a Better World.
The "death" is what has to happen to the present flawed system of doing things and its politics, false religions and controlling commercialism. You can't keep the present M.O. (Mode of Operations) and also miraculously morph into a better world. Jesus stated the principle very well => "You can't put new wine in old wineskins".
DJMatt2, if you want death you need to write your own Bible. Mine says at Revelation 7:9 & 14 a great crowd (great multitude KJV) that has no set number will be saved through the great tribulation when this system gets trashed (and those who try to keep it intact) into God's New System.
As the inventor of Imitation Energy engine systems I haven't been holding back. This system has steadfastly rejected any new wine I poured over it. Seems they want to keep everybody a gas pump addict. Slaving at two jobs to live one life.
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DJMatt2:
DJMatt2, I see by your profile you are an educated man. I look forward to whatever the prophecies bring because it was given to me to achieve great peace of mind. I have two separate engine systems, one from 2003 the 2nd coming exactly 18 months later in 2005, and each of them defeats entropy and also they skirt around, over & through the three thermodynamic laws of physics that cripples most engines into great inefficiency.
God has been very generous to me to allow me to understand these levels of Glory in advance of setting up his new "system of things" foretold soon to be. Very few engineers have peered into the ark as I have, where lightning flashes the presence of the Almighty. At first I was uncertain what to do with the engines, to tell others or not, but soon I decided yes, these glorious engines belongs to every person on earth => http://www.newpath4.com/1100russianwomensteamingangryatmen.htm
Since the car engine written about just last night in the above linked file does not do any harm to the water and the air used in the engine I view it as a fulfillment also of the Hopi prophecy. Mankind now has an important choice to make. Keep denying and fighting these new engines that produce absolutely NO POLLUTION or, maybe things don't turn out so well... Surf the Internet straight down the craw of Armageddon reaping God's intense disappointment. Perhaps even anger.
I also have promising designs for Gravity-powered wheels that can power an individual home totally not needing sun or wind or especially a new $69,000,000,000.00 rebuilt Power Grid. My first design this past March 2009 used NASA's very own "slingshot technique", but since then I have others even better. One is a "dual opposed pendulum", another is like a Pelican, but the one I like very much is the "Scorpion".
Imagine my friend, every home on earth having its own on-site power source. It is very possible because if one doesn't supply enough power you can have them all pouring their power production into the single battery storage and conversion system, switching out per which one is desired.
And yet since all these discoveries, a few months ago I came to realize a way to harness universal energy called "the aether". With it no other engines are necessary. The planet is taking a bath in this awesome power, a fact first discovered by Mr. Floyd Sweet back in 1987. He built a device & system he called his Triode Vacuum Amplifier. He solved mankind's energy needs in 1987.
The system I have is very much different from Sweet's, and I tell you sir it is also glorious, telling and showing and proving the Glory and Love of the Supreme Being who created all that we see. We don't need nuclear power plants and their nuclear waste, not in France and certainly not here. Properly designed engines such as these put shame to Geothermal that has been found to contribute to increased seismic activity.
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Why don't they just blow it up anyway? I know it'd cost tons of money but if there's a chance of it hitting us we should use the opportunity to get rid of one of our nukes. One less to disarm and dispose of, right?
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kevinthedude:
You still don't understand after my posts above??? They piecemeal out ideas a trickle at a time to bust up your damn brainwaves & keep them busted up into 4096-byte chunks. It also serves the purpose of preventing you to think in terms of combination answers like what is in my pollution-free engines. They have you living and thinking one short text message at a time. They've screwed Americans into a latrine.
Like the Germans threw concentration camp prisoners into an outhouse to swallow their own excrement and drown.
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kevinthedude:
How did article about the spacecraft and asteroid have changed to concentration camp prisoners?
Gravity_Man, please get some sleep :) - 2 years ago
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kevinthedude:
Yes. We all need more sleep, more sleep, more sl
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If 2029 sucks rotten eggs like 2009 find a better sliderule.
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18,300 eh? And what if earth's Moon happens to be swinging around the opposite side lined up with Earth creating a combination pull on that asteroid? hahahaha Consider every variable Luke. Even the ones others have told you not to like talking about.
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Gravity_Man:
Isn't that something that we could predict tho?
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Gravity_Man:
Well, maybe, but it makes the equation a lot more difficult. The trajectory of the asteroid would need to be a lot more specific. And since they seem to not be becoming aware of them til 24 hours before they pass us it doesn't appear they have enough sample to do that.
Earth and Moon are a binary planet system where the center of gravity is constantly changing. The last two bodies that went whizzing by us, both of them they said in later news reports went between the earth & moon. That was either just plain Chance or the hand of God, because if the moon had been on the opposite side instead the combined pull would have swung both those suckers right into us dead center.
I've never studied probability but right offhand I would say we've used up all the Chance we had a right to. Now the first one I know about went by us was 216,000 miles up, mostly toward the moon, and that's bad too because if we lost the moon we'd be in poor cotton pickin' shape down here. Not to mention that we need the light reflected off the moon too. So exactly 3 weeks later, again a Friday, 18,300 miles. That's close enough to shave with.
I don't like these numbers, I don't like the pattern. Without knowing how to figure probability and stuff like that I'm left with what I have, and what I have says the next one comes close will likely have our name stamped on it. At which time we better have built that system I told them how to build a couple months ago, a tank of water in front of a nuclear warhead to put a steam blast in its face.
Assuming they want to stop it. Assuming their security watches for sabotage. Assuming the darn thing comes at us on the side where we have the launch pad. Assuming the people at the launch console hasn't taken a nap, also assuming he hasn't punched out early to go play footsie with his girlfriend.
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Gravity_Man:
You know eternalposer it would be helpful if they would start telling the full truth about this stuff instead of doling out a piece at a time to us like trying to protect us from the knowledge contained in their scrolls. That's why I started writing my website early 2003. I got so sick and tired of people not telling me stuff I decided I was going to start writing what I knew, and show people the RESPECT THEY DESERVE.
My Mom held lots of stuff back from me when I was growing up, leaving me ignorant as a doorknob about some very important matters. She caused me a great deal of mistakes she could've helped me not have. I love her to death but doggone, keeping people in ignorance ON PURPOSE sucks rotten eggs.
I refuse to do people that way.
I guess we're all supposed to enroll in college and pay them their satchels of money and then maybe they tell stuff they know. Here's my post on the other blog of 10/18/2009where I revealed the water tank idea => http://forum.signonsandiego.com/showpost.php?p=3808278&postcount=2187 it is a system that would stop a lot of incoming icbm's also.... but as usual, the News Media won't mention it any more than they mention any of my engines.
Hoarding knowledge seems to be everybody's game nowadays, except mine.
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Gravity_Man:
Here's the deal poser. These meteors and asteroids coming by are not just being pulled at us by Gravity. They're being pushed at us by aether concentration. Universal aether is cosmic energy and it's extremely dense energy but it's also invisible to our eyes. So NASA, they're thinking the farther away from the planet these whizbys are the Gravity is extremely a lot less.
And that's true, it is.
But the force shoving them towards the Mass of our planet (and the combined Mass of this binary system) is aether. It actually was by the Grace of God the Moon was on the outer side. Had the Moon and Earth been on the same side from either one of those near misses we would have been space dust.
The closer they come to Earth the more the aether pushes & the more the gravity pulls them at us. Two forces, not one. If I didn't have my knowledge of Bible prophecies I'd be shaking in my boots over this stuff. There was another meteor that came in as a marathon was starting, down in Texas I believe. It made a big flash of light twice. I think that was back in September.
The Milky Way -and Earth- is drifting into a space minefield. I told them about 4-5 years ago now how to make a crossed-laser system to stop the things. If they've built it I haven't heard anyone say anything about it. A lot of the general population has the idea nothing has been getting done for a lack of ideas. No, that isn't true.
They've been getting gosh-a-plenty ideas from me. What it is man they don't like my religious beliefs and they don't want people knowing their backsides are being saved by a JW. It ruins their plans.
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Gravity_Man:
That's it eternalposer!!! The Tunguska meteor strike back in 1908 was in the morning, 7:14 AM, and the one in Texas was also in the morning, around 9 AM the Moon more than likely being in the backswing headed away to the other side. So that's when we take the hit. Whoever is in the light around sunup or so is the side that's in danger. ///
So if NASA or the astronomers can figure out which side of Earth the meteor or asteroid is going to pass us on + it's during the early Daylight side/time, that would be the rock most likely to come on at us. Or at least now we know what time of day we need to find the basement, or a bomb shelter. From 7 to 10 AM no matter where we live, that's the time. ///
Conversely, whenever we look in the sky and see the Moon that would be for us the Least Likely Time to take a hit. Good work Poser. You're the man. Unlike Vin Diesel fearing the night, we now know it's the early daytime to be concerned. Hooray. Now we know the most likely time we meet our doom from a meteor or asteroid.
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Gravity_Man:
Damn... I'm sleeping underground from now on
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Gravity_Man:
No need to sleep under the ground. We just do what we always do, cross our fingers and trust. We trust that lots of them will be small and burn up in the atmosphere. We trust that many of them will go blazing through staying over the ground never impacting, or they'll skip off the atmosphere like a pond rock.
We deal with that just like we deal with having our mail locked so we can't respond. Them's the breaks. In today's world we have a very active group of people who think it's their job to keep people trusting, or sometimes even ignorant. Ya know what they say => "Ya can't fight City Hall".
Nowadays lots of folks imagine they're City Hall.
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Eternalposer
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This is a waste of time and money. When the asteroid was first discovered in 2004, astronomers estimated its chances of smashing into Earth in its first flyby, in 2029, at 1-in-37.
Since then studies have ruled out the possibility of an impact in 2029, when the asteroid is expected to come no closer than 18,300 miles. NASA had put the chances that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 as 1-in-250,000. Another close encounter in 2068 will involve a 1-in-330,000 chance of impact.
Crazy reds, they cant hope to fund this by themselves...
I cant wait till they coax us into wasting our money too. - 2 years ago
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good luck ruskies. Your flying trash cans can orbit the earth but leaving our earths orbit for a an asteroid should be left to the americans who have experience. Thats OK even if they have a catastrophic failure they'll claim it was a success. Thats the commi way. Just like their emmisions reports. Spew 100 million tons of CO and claim only 10 tons. The chineese do the same thing. While in america, we spew 100 million tons and the EPA says its 200 million. We are screwed....
http://www.topnflnews.com/ - 2 years ago
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life_4_rent:
Interesting Russian "flying trash cans" actually used by billionaires throughout the world including Americans. Where are the American "flying trash cans"?
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Monkey_Films
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That was inspiring Gravity_Man
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After reading this I can't stop thinking about how much better of a movie Deep Impact is than Armageddon.
But seriously though, I'm pretty confident that if NASA can 'blow up the moon' while remotely controlling robots on Mars, their math is right when it comes to this asteroid missing the earth.
If the Russian government wants to pay hundreds of millions of dollars on a 1-in-45,000 shot, let them go for it.
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bishopobispo:
actually... 1 in 250,000. BOOOHYA SOVIETS! oops, I meant Russia! The odds were changed in October.
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Katie_Barrie
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We could use the practice
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Katie_Barrie:
agreed
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a good story to keep an eye on for the teams at current. the fear inspiring aspect of this story is when one thinks about the countless man made disasters earth has already endured; with our luck science will knock it right into us, or worse, we into it.
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raabitt
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If russians would wise up and admit there regeim is not any good and ditch there old way of life and get in to the real world thay would be far better of .
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raabitt:
i could say the exact same thing about the US. i just hope the health care bill passes without republicans go suicidal
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conspiracy theorists.... GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously tho.. disguising a "long range nuclear missile" as a meteor deflector is SOOOO 1960s... wake up gramps..
third world countries have this technology.. that they bought off us.. >.> BUT STILL..
nooone is bombing anybody till some major power royally fucks up and loses hope as a Nation. its one of the few reasons north korea, pakistan, and some other "rogue nations" havent threatened or actually fired ANY of their missiles. sure were all struggling, but the rich and the powerful of those countries are still living the good life. why the fuck would they start a meaningless war if theyre living out a life of paradise we can only dream of. however once their government collapses and they give up... thennn mAAAAyybe we'd see some new hitlers or osamas running around.... with nukes =/ - 2 years ago
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YakovFox:
Rich no longer means what it used ta mean. The Rich now preside over a landfill oozing leachate. They once had great missiles sitting in silos but then, one day someone realized a key part in that made their great missiles so great well, all of a sudden they discovered the plans for that very difficult part to be replicated were lost... and the few men who had built it were dead.
The Rich rule over the Keystone Cops. They are finding out their policy of dumbing everybody down has given them a kingdom over the dumb. The Rich, once great Morlochs, now depend on the people above who can barely spell because they have replaced their language with texting abbreviations. The Rich are in danger of being consumed by The Nothing they caused.
They are little more than weak little people hoping no one realizes they are little people backed up against the fire on the teepee floor holding sticks in their hands to fight off the wolves when the fire dies some more. What they do have is the mindless obedient soldiers propping them up so they don't fall. That's all they got. The "sticks" they hold are the money they print. The "wolves" watching the flame die is the public who sees correctly that the sticks have pitiful little value but what the wolves give it.
The Rich made the awesome mistake of playing the save themselves card, saving the top of the pyramid they command, so the entire base of their pyramid is becoming homeless, jobless, familyless, carless, and soon shoeless Joes... who couldn't care less about little people who so quickly and easily sacrifice their children to the gods of war, coming back home in body bags or coming home carrying their own arms and legs in a bag.
Monkey_Films in an earlier post used the word Shame. Indeed, but who is the Shame on? Is it on these kid soldier's parents who send them into wars still deluded in thinking they have sent them to save Europe from a Hitler? What does it benefit a man to save the whole world and toss his son upon a fire?
to get a paid education? Spell Shame one letter at a time. Eat it on a sandwich.
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YakovFox:
I can't begin to imagine the fear they must feel right now, a fear that their uniformed automatons in the police forces, CIA, FBI, and Armed Forces, Seals, and so on were to stop looking at everybody else as the enemy and turn around and look hard at the lowlifes giving them orders to fire.
Based on what? They have all the money? Impressive-sounding names like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Heil Hitler.
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YakovFox:
Watch the hands. They use an applied chaos theory to break up the silence, preventing people from thinking clearly. They allow a period of silence but not enough, then they inject something to make people focus somewhere else, and thereby stop thinking what they were almost about to think.
They're using modified sleep deprivation. Psychological waterboarding lite.
Gently smacking your brain. Masters at it too.
Waving a candy cane that amazingly looks like a Russian rocket, having a mission for us to stand in the fields watching up in the sky. Feet mired in the grass. Glued brains stuck to the monitor or a TV set. Yeah, they know our numbers, exactly how many electrical cycles to wait between the allowed lulls, then run a new ad.
One day people will understand a skipping record again. Learn to plant something. Plant a thought in your brain that isn't a thought someone else tells ya to think.
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If i was under the watchful eye of the Empire, I'd be testing long range missiles, too.
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Drilling about 1/3 in, directed fission to superheat the insides will cause a thrust effect being forced out of the hole.
Satellite with huge mirror sail to focus light on the side to burn off some material.
Ion drive
Ion drive with digger to use material from Apophis.There are a bunch of others that can work.
It'd be much better to capture it for the materials, but the chance of this happening is unlikely.
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Total nonsense - Great story to cover the obvious long range missile test. China has already tested missiles to target orbiting satellites - this is no different.
Why can nobody see that??
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lovelander:
If they could only disguise the thing as a silo for the homeless, a peacful silo, a golden calf!
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Aw, man, no Russians flying up to up a bomb in the asteroid to blow it up and "conveniently" miss the earth? i was looking forward to them make a movie about it.........wait.
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Gravity_Man I'd be willing to bet a lot is bankrupt in that country but I'll bet the government over there has more, as usual, than they share with the populace. This will just drain more from their economy. I think if this is true enough of a threat all members of the U.N. should donate according to ability.
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Monkey_Films:
Understood Monkey_Films but, don't they know how bad they make calm_incense look after he posted how poor they are? But he was right! They are poor. Now they're more poor. We're more poor. Everybody is more poor. But we're missile rich.... And besides, I thought with our great new technological advances the Plan was to grab the asteroids and mine them.
What happened to the Master Plan?!
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trut
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Right on Russia!
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Well at least they're bringing a world-wide issue to the public eye. At the very least the idea that they might do it without the USA involved might spur a little "competition" into space again.
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According to a string of very informative recent posts made by calm_incense in the other thread the Russian economy is on its knees, financially incapable of doing this mission. Where do so many people get so much money still knee deep in a World Recession?
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Gravity_Man:
Money doesn't disappear in a recession... it just switches hands - needless to say, somebody has become very rich BECAUSE of the recession; consider the banks, for example.
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Gravity_Man:
I have difficulty imagining Russia as 'poor' during a time when energy futures are so promising, given their immense capacity for producing natural gas and their willingness to cut off anyone's supply that objects to the price, as they have so aptly displayed in the near past.
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is this a nuclear spacecraft... lol
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The ultimate irony of this would be if the asteroid would have been a near miss, but in sending the spacecraft to knock it off course we altered the asteroids trajectory directly into Earth.
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Kylsport
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Varex_Sythe:
Hey, that was going to be my response. Perhaps this Russian has been watching the movie Armageddon.
- 2 years ago
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Kylsport
