Poll of the Day > massive asteroid coming for earth in over a hundred years

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http://bigthink.com/news/bennu-a-giant-asteroid-may-be-headed-for-earth-in-2135-nasa-says-it-can-do-nothing

our new mission is to find a way to stop it. little kids right now may live to see this.

Zikten posted...

http://bigthink.com/news/bennu-a-giant-asteroid-may-be-headed-for-earth-in-2135-nasa-says-it-can-do-nothing

our new mission is to find a way to stop it. little kids right now may live to see this.

That's a stretch, but maybe... They'd have to be the ones that like to be over a hundred. We still don't get many of them...

Also, is this the same one they were talking about years ago?
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1 in 2600 chance it will hit us.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

1 in 2600 chance it will hit us.

I blame Nolan Bushnell

Cool, wonder if we'll see a bit of a revival in space endeavors from this.
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There is a strange lack of actual sources for the information in that article.

Chances are we wont know about the asteroid that wipes us out until it makes impact.
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That makes me sad
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Mead posted...

Chances are we wont know about the asteroid that wipes us out until it makes impact.

This is super scary and makes me sad
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LittleRoyal posted...

Mead posted...

Chances are we wont know about the asteroid that wipes us out until it makes impact.

This is super scary and makes me sad

no no, its MUCH worse to know its coming
quick and unexpected, that's the best way
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I think we will be fine. we have a century to work to fixing this. science already had an incredible leap in the past century. imagine what will happen in the next hundred years. we will move it or destroy it with future technology

I doubt well be the ones in charge in 100 years

The tech singularity is inevitably gonna happen within the next 50 or so
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Zikten posted...

I think we will be fine. we have a century to work to fixing this. science already had an incredible leap in the past century. imagine what will happen in the next hundred years. we will move it or destroy it with future technology

But mead said it could happen tonight
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stop believing stupid shitty websites that make shit up, Zikten
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Bear posted...

stop believing stupid shitty websites that make shit up, Zikten

I think you meant to post this in the other topic, about the missing plane

no Zikten
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Well we better get to work on a solution, if only to stop old pundits from complaining that millennials are literally destroying the planet.
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Have Elon Musk send up one of his rockets to go paint one side of the damned thing white and let the Sun push the thing away.

Next.
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Mead posted...

Chances are we wont know about the asteroid that wipes us out until it makes impact.

Came to say this.
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LinkPizza posted...

Zikten posted...

http://bigthink.com/news/bennu-a-giant-asteroid-may-be-headed-for-earth-in-2135-nasa-says-it-can-do-nothing

our new mission is to find a way to stop it. little kids right now may live to see this.

That's a stretch, but maybe... They'd have to be the ones that like to be over a hundred. We still don't get many of them...

Also, is this the same one they were talking about years ago?

Meh, with technology improving at a drastic rate I wouldn't be surprised to see the average life expectancy go up to over 100. That is a bit of a lowball when we are talking the technology of 2100 or more. Shit compare what was "amazing" technology in 1918 compared to 2018. The thing about technology is the more you have the faster you get better stuff. So in 1000 years from now assuming humanity doesn't screw themselves we will see things change at rates we can't even imagine.
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Monopoman posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Zikten posted...

http://bigthink.com/news/bennu-a-giant-asteroid-may-be-headed-for-earth-in-2135-nasa-says-it-can-do-nothing

our new mission is to find a way to stop it. little kids right now may live to see this.

That's a stretch, but maybe... They'd have to be the ones that like to be over a hundred. We still don't get many of them...

Also, is this the same one they were talking about years ago?

Meh, with technology improving at a drastic rate I wouldn't be surprised to see the average life expectancy go up to over 100. That is a bit of a lowball when we are talking the technology of 2100 or more. Shit compare what was "amazing" technology in 1918 compared to 2018. The thing about technology is the more you have the faster you get better stuff. So in 1000 years from now assuming humanity doesn't screw themselves we will see things change at rates we can't even imagine.

I don't disagree with all that. I understand technology and do think the average life expectancy will increase... But I also don't think this generations children are going to be part of the generation that has the average life expectancy that is over 100...
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I believe I read once that average life expectancy is going down for the first time, based on polution in the most populated areas. Air content is really bad in many very densely populated areas which is expected to have severe long term effects.

Not sure if that is still true and certainly don't have sources, but I did read that awhile ago.
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Don't we know all of the asteroids that could cause our extinction? I know there are smaller asteroids that could still cause massive casualties that could sneak by us, but I thought we were aware of all the extinction-level asteroids in our neck of the woods.
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Golden Road posted...

Don't we know all of the asteroids that could cause our extinction? I know there are smaller asteroids that could still cause massive casualties that could sneak by us, but I thought we were aware of all the extinction-level asteroids in our neck of the woods.

Well, probably. I mean, they know about this one. And it's still 135 years away from maybe hitting us...
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You speak with authority on a lot of topics lately, where is your astrophysics degree, Zikten, ok?
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The problem in raising the life expectancy past 100 is still cancer. Cancer in it's many forms is pretty much nature's insurance policy against immortality.
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ClarkDuke posted...

You speak with authority on a lot of topics lately, where is your astrophysics degree, Zikten, ok?

It's coming in the mail. I ordered it off the back of a box of Frosted Flakes

It could happen much sooner than that and we might not even know until it's too late to do anything about it! :)
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humans are a virus that kill all life forms this asteroid would cleanse the planet

RoboXgp89 posted...

humans are a virus that kill all life forms this asteroid would cleanse the planet

It would kill cats too though

Its not a global killer. It's huge and would cause some major issues for its impact area and hundreds of miles around it. But the one that did in the dinosaurs was miles wide. This isn't near that size. Whichever country this hits, its going to be horrible for or if it lands in the ocean (more likely) we'll have some crazy tsunamis so coastal areas are screwed.. but its not an end event.
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Is this real?
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Meh, Earth's had a good run.
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SkynyrdRocker posted...

1 in 2600 chance it will hit us.

Plus a decent backup plan of nuking it.

Nuclear radiation >>> annihilation
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Zikten posted...

ClarkDuke posted...

You speak with authority on a lot of topics lately, where is your astrophysics degree, Zikten, ok?

It's coming in the mail. I ordered it off the back of a box of Frosted Flakes

10/10
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Interesting for sure,

Asteroid impact can have unexpected consequences too which is another threat.

Only time will tell
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Greenfox111 posted...

LittleRoyal posted...

Mead posted...

Chances are we wont know about the asteroid that wipes us out until it makes impact.

This is super scary and makes me sad

no no, its MUCH worse to know its coming
quick and unexpected, that's the best way

We know its coming already. Its not a question of if, but when. And if it is, I doubt the government would say anything in order to avoid widespread panicking and rioting/looting.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

humans are a virus that kill all life forms this asteroid would cleanse the planet

Asteroids are a virus that kill all life forms. We need an asteroid to destroy all the asteroids.
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Hopefully the Moon will come to the Earth's rescue by either taking the hit for us or by sending the asteroid on its merry way via gravity-assist / slingshot.


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Breastmilkn_Dip posted...

Hopefully the Moon will come to the Earth's rescue by either taking the hit for us or by sending the asteroid on its merry way via gravity-assist / slingshot.

The moon being hit could be worse, I believe.
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find a roughneck who can drill their way to heaven and find michael bay to add some unnecessary explosion.
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yay
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There will be an asteroid passing closer to the earth than some of our man-made satellites in 2022(IIRC). There is a chance the earth's gravity could alter its orbit putting it on a collision course with earth the next time around. Earth is fucked, bro.
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SkynyrdRocker posted...

1 in 2600 chance it will hit us.

On an astronomical scale, those are actually pretty bad odds.

Id be willing to bet against Earth if all the money Id win wouldnt turn into space dust if Im right (also Id be dead in 120 years, minor inconvenience).
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Land a couple nuclear powered rockets on it and engage the thrusters to push it.
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TsC_PoLiTiKz posted...

Breastmilkn_Dip posted...

Hopefully the Moon will come to the Earth's rescue by either taking the hit for us or by sending the asteroid on its merry way via gravity-assist / slingshot.

The moon being hit could be worse, I believe.

The Earth big brother Jupiter might take the hit for us. He's done it before...
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LinkPizza posted...

TsC_PoLiTiKz posted...

Breastmilkn_Dip posted...

Hopefully the Moon will come to the Earth's rescue by either taking the hit for us or by sending the asteroid on its merry way via gravity-assist / slingshot.

The moon being hit could be worse, I believe.

The Earth big brother Jupiter might take the hit for us. He's done it before...

Highest chance is that it will fall into the Sun. Venus has the highest odds for planets at 26%

"The orbit of Bennu is intrinsically dynamically unstable, as are those of all NEOs. In order to glean probabilistic insights into the future evolution and likely fate of Bennu beyond a few hundred years, we tracked 1000 virtual "Bennus" for an interval of 300 Myr with the gravitational perturbations of the planets MercuryNeptune included. Our results ... indicate that Bennu has a 48% chance of falling into the Sun. There is a 10% probability that Bennu will be ejected out of the inner Solar System, most likely after a close encounter with Jupiter. The highest impact probability for a planet is with Venus (26%), followed by the Earth (10%) and Mercury (3%). The odds of Bennu striking Mars are only 0.8% and there is a 0.2% chance that Bennu will eventually collide with Jupiter."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/maps.12353/abstract

I guess Jupiter is asleep at the wheel on this one.
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dragon504 posted...

Cool, wonder if we'll see a bit of a revival in space endeavors from this.

well trump does want a millitary for space...
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