...after 2036 I expect some of you won't be around much.
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Best of luck, chaps...
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pedal like mad and simply blow it away.
Its called 'saving the planet' :-)
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About three years later an Asteroid might hit in any case.
Brian
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any significance.
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I should be so lucky as to live until then!
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Ditto. I'll be 94 if I'm still around!
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By that time we will probably have the wherewithal to change its direction or destroy it. May be we could get on it with rockets and drive it around.
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Unlikely. That's only 23 years away. How much progress in rocketry has there been in the last 23 years?
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2036 isn't that far away , There may will be people on here who started a project 23 years ago and still haven't finished it yet. Mines a model boat.
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"Well it hardly seems worth finishing off the kitchen/bathroom/utility now does it dear?" should be the newsgroups new phrase/excuse. Obviously any shed or workshop projects are allowed to be finished off or started "just in case it misses the Earth and the tools will still be there to finish off the kitchen/bathroom/utility project".
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So what would it take anyway? something simple like a carbonfibre net to catch it as it passes and a solar sail to create a bit of a tug?
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Watch it live on Jan 21st, 10pm
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Hmmm. There's a model Porsche 911 (unfinished) in the loft that must be that old.
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In message , snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk writes
You are Noah AICMFP
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If we can build something and get it launched and get it there with enough time to alter it's course enough.
And instead of one big bit, that might miss, get showered by lots of possibly not so small bits?
And how do you deploy this net in space in the path of the asteroid to
*guarantee* that it will be caught?I think our only chance is a large ion drive that we land on to the asteroid, then start the drive and leave it running for as many years as we can thus very very gently giving it a shove. This sort of assumes that the object isn't tumbling, which it probably is...
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Huh, that's less than an hour away ;)