Asteriod hitting the earth???

[iMany101]

Is it true that an asteriod is meant to hit the earth or is all just a hoax and nothing to worry about?

[Tieox]

Have you a source of this glorious news?

[ttoks]

There is a rather large astroid that will pass inside of earths orbit is 2029 and again in 2036, but it's not predicted to hit the earth, or even come close, nothing to worry about

[Centurius]

1 hour ago, iMany101 said:

Is it true that an asteriod is meant to hit the earth or is all just a hoax and nothing to worry about?

At some point in the future an asteroid will almost inevitably hit Earth, by all current models it isn't anytime soon though.

[Centurius]

11 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Alright Garry Johnson

 

By that time in the future we should have enough knowledge to know how to stop it before impacts.

Calm down Donald, OP asked if it was possible which it has been empirically proven to be(seeing as it has happened quite a few times in our planet's history) and statistically is likely to occur again with the expected lifetime of the planet.

 

Nothing in the post said anything about whether or not we would be able to destroy it, seeing as even if we did develop that technology it wouldn't change anything about the asteroid heading directly for Earth anyway. 

[WkdPaul]

I think it's either November 8th or November 28th ... 

 

 

/S

[NumLock21]

It hits earth all the time, but our atomsphere burns it up. It's some that are so huge, the atomshpere breaking it up does nothing to its sheer size. 

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

3 hours ago, Kierax said:

Have you a source of this glorious news?

666 posts? 

[dalekphalm]

As previously eluded to, asteroids actually strike the Earth all the time, often every day. As noted here, Meteorites (Asteroids that strike the Earth and impact the ground) of a size of at least 10 grams (yes, grams, which are tiny) impact the groud up to 84.000 times per year.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/75-our-solar-system/comets-meteors-and-asteroids/meteorites/313-how-many-meteorites-hit-earth-each-year-intermediate

 

But, as you can no doubt guess, most of them are tiny, and pose basically no risk to human life. You occasionally get some cool likes, like the meteors that exploded above Russia a few years ago, which were caught on Dashcam (very cool to watch):

The shockwave from the explosions can sometimes be enough to shatter glass for miles around.

 

Planet Killer Meteors are quite rare, though they do happen. We're not expecting a planet killer to impact us at any time in the relative future - you'll be long dead before the next big impact that we can currently predict happens.

 

The risk is Asteroids coming from deep space or the Oort Cloud that come in on a sharp angle unexpectedly.

[Tieox]

10 hours ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

666 posts? 

oooooo spokeh  

 

I want to be sat outside when one does hit, right in it's path with a huge sheet of paper.  Lets see who wins now rock!

[TheSuspect]

Wait and find out.

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

8 hours ago, Kierax said:

oooooo spokeh  

 

I want to be sat outside when one does hit, right in it's path with a huge sheet of paper.  Lets see who wins now rock!

You shouldn't have responded. That way, you would still be at 666 when the asteroid hits the Earth. 

[Tieox]

23 hours ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

You shouldn't have responded. That way, you would still be at 666 when the asteroid hits the Earth. 

 

True, perhaps the aliens simply want a new inter-galactic highway.

[Thunderpup]

If memory serves me correctly there is a comet that is scheduled to have a near miss with earth in our future, but its a few hundred years from now.  

 

Sadly though we don't devote enough resources to tracking near earth objects so there is always the chance there is something on an intercept course with the earth and we not know about it.

[Harambe Did Not Die A Hero]

The impact will happen tomorrow. Brace yourselves. A gorilla or two will die along with 7-8 billion people. God bless us all...especially Harambe.

[IAEInferno]

The Avengers can handle it, I'm 100% sure, have you seen them in tv, they're unstoppable.

[Mr.Meerkat]

On 10/17/2016 at 11:44 PM, wrathoftheturkey said:

Alright Garry Johnson

 

By that time in the future we should have enough knowledge to know how to stop it before impacts.

Energy shield or just send a couple of TNT rockets at it   (Nukes won't do shizzle as it won't actually "blow up" the asteriod into smaller and safer pieces )

[dalekphalm]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Energy shield or just send a couple of TNT rockets at it   (Nukes won't do shizzle as it won't actually "blow up" the asteriod into smaller and safer pieces )

Nuclear weapons can indeed be used, but not to "destroy" the asteroid - the risk of fragmenting it into hundreds of deadly pieces instead of a single mega-deadly piece is too great.

 

But you could, very precisely, deflect the course of the asteroid using a nuclear blast. It's likely our safest bet to prevent an impact.

[Mr.Meerkat]

3 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

the risk of fragmenting it into hundreds of deadly pieces instead of a single mega-deadly piece is too great.

This obviously depends on the size of the astreiod no? If you could guarantee that you could blow the pieces small enough that our atmosphere would just burn em up when they enter, how are they deadly when they wouldn't even exist?  

[Coaxialgamer]

36 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

This obviously depends on the size of the astreiod no? If you could guarantee that you could blow the pieces small enough that our atmosphere would just burn em up when they enter, how are they deadly when they wouldn't even exist?  

still not safe. And if the asteroid is big enough it won't do shit. Best approach is to either deflect it with a nuke or send a satellite near it so it's gravity moves it. Thing is , we can see those things coming decades in advance. If we react soon enough , even deflecting it by a very small amount will make it clearly miss us since it has so much distance to travel 

[dalekphalm]

46 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

This obviously depends on the size of the astreiod no? If you could guarantee that you could blow the pieces small enough that our atmosphere would just burn em up when they enter, how are they deadly when they wouldn't even exist?  

I will concede the point, but only after also pointing out that an Asteroid small enough that we could ensure total vaporization (or fragments too small to matter) isn't really much of a risk - at least, not for an extinction event. An asteroid that small might take out a house or a bridge or something. Loss of life is certainly possible. But it's not gonna take out an entire city or country.

 

With multiple coordinated nuclear strikes? Perhaps that might work to totally annihilate a planet killer, but even then, the precision required may be impossible with current technology.

[Harambe Did Not Die A Hero]

I hope mankind dies out. I hate humanity. We all gotta die. I'm dead serious now.

[Mr.Meerkat]

26 minutes ago, Harambe Did Not Die A Hero said:

I hope mankind dies out. I hate humanity. We all gotta die. I'm dead serious now.

One post and bannarino? Damn son  

[dalekphalm]

16 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

One post and bannarino? Damn son  

He's been shitposting in Off Topic all day - and those posts don't show in your post count

[Guest]

It's a meteor but whatever

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor