A warning from NASA - IGNORE IT AT YOUR PERIL!

"NASA investigating monstrous meteor that could wipe life off the face of the Earth'

Not just yer regular common-or-garden meteor, but a 'monstrous' meteor? Well I suppose we're all gonna find out how the dinosaurs felt? NASA's corporate logo - 'Superlatives 'R Us'?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird...steroid-2000-ET70-hit-earth-world-destruction

 

Don't worry. You know they'll never tell us about the real one.

 

NASA has issued no such warning, in fact they say the exact opposite.

NASA refuted the claims made by other astronomers saying that Earth is likely to be hit by the deadly asteroid 2000 ET70.

 

IGNORE IT AT YOUR PERIL?
What are we supposed to do?

 

Did you also here about the deathray on the impending alien attack that is going to happen next Tuesday by the Snygors from floenonius 4 in the Virgo cluster? I heard tell it makes you totally horny and kills you by esploding genital to tree impact.

 

The closest it gets before 2100 is 5.52 million kilometers, on 2059-Feb-19 09:20, and it doesn't appear at all in the Sentry Risk Table ordered with the highest risk first. They are all shown as white and blue indicating no significant risk. Not too perilous to ignore.

 

Good point, a couple of recent films include little hints that NASA is in the cover-up business.
Firstly in 'Interstellar' (set in the future) McConoughey is told off by his daughters teachers for telling her the Apollo landings were not faked, and secondly in 'The Martian', the head of NASA hides the fact that Matt Damon could possibly be rescued.
And in another movie (drat I can't remember the title), NASA answers schoolkids fan mail to astronauts by sending them phoney replies using the astronauts names.

 

Those are works of fiction......

 

This is actually pretty routine. I am glad they keep tabs on all asteroids that come within millions of miles of us. That way we will be prepared. But there's nothing to suggest that this will be the one we have to deal with. Someday we probably will need to do something to stop a large asteroid from causing damage.

 

Nobody knows when it will be .. . if it will be? It's all meaningless conjecture so 'they' can justify their existence.

 

I'd like to know what?

 

You will be dead by then, go to your pub and have a drink.

I liked the question the bloke at the pub asked Ford Prefect;

"You say the World is going to end ?
Yes,
And there is nothing we can do about it ?
No.
Shouldn't we put a bag over our heads or something ?
If you like.
Will it help ?
No.
Last call for drinks.......


Hitch hiker's guide to the Galaxy.
Not the rotten remake.

 

We have nukes and rockets that can launch payloads into deep space already. Or maybe they could come up with something more creative. If it's long enough from now I'm sure we'd have antimatter weapons. We would just need to change it's orbit, but vaporizing would be even better, and it's not like we're talking about a planet.

 

I understand they travel haphazardly through space at 60,000mph, so I guess the trick would be hitting it?

 

Actually it always has been a very precise thing, because small errors would lead to spacecraft crashing into planets particularly when they want to get close enough for pictures. They did just recently crash one into a comet for research purposes.

 

That will depend on the size, composition, distance, trajectory, technology, timeline.....etc.....

Likely when this becomes an issue vs. discussion point abilities will have advanced significantly....probably a gravity manipulation system to eject it from the solar system or something.

 

Still gonna take some doing to hit something travelling at 60,000mph. Obviously it can't be done, and it's living in the realms of fantasy to believe it can be.

 

'into deep space'? You mean into the troposphere, don't you, as in 'guided missiles' with nuclear warheads?? Anyway they'd be programmed to reach a specific destination, not at something doing 60,000mph.

 

Dude, we just crashed the Rosetta lander onto comet 67P, which is traveling at about 85,000mph relative to earth.

 

Did we? And you know that how??

 

Oh... You're one of those flat-earth guys. Sorry I bothered.

 

Or the boy who spotted that the emperor wasn't wearing any clothes??? Wake up and smell it - they're fooling you.

 

What should I be doing to stop a life-ending meteor? lining my property with trampolines so it bounces back into space maybe?

 

Why didn't I think of that!

 

You posted this in the 'science' forum, which I read. Should be moved to 'conspiracy theory' section.