HardOCP News
[H] News
- Joined
- Dec 31, 1969
- Messages
- 0
NASA has plans to harpoon an asteroid by the year 2025. This one is too easy, I'll spare you the Bruce Willis / Michael Bay jokes and just skip right to the video.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
What is the point of harpooning a asteroid? I dont get it.
What is the point of harpooning a asteroid? I dont get it.
Well, there is an asteroid that can potentially hit Earth in the coming decades, called Apophis. First encounter will be in 2029. At that point it'll go so close to earth that it'll dip below our satellites. A news-maker for sure. The 2nd encounter in 2036 which may or may not hit us depending on where it goes in 2029. It's a low chance but better safe than sorry.
I'm not sure about the harpooning bit, but one of the safer ideas to get the asteroid away from the Earth is to have a satellite park by the asteroid, let gravity pull the two objects toward each other, and have the satellite use rockets to keep itself at a distance. Rinse and repeat till the asteroid is out of harm's way.
What is the point of harpooning a asteroid? I dont get it.
To prove that god (I don't capitalize fictitious characters) doesn't exist!! Well, maybe we can't prove that, but I had to say anyway. "
Sure, I'll eat your Bible, but it will take me many days of munching and snacking!" Kids in the Hall.
They should get a creepy old guy with a asteroid bone leg to go nuts and throw it at the rock while shouting:
"to the last I grapple with thee, from hell's heart I stab at thee, for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee"
Unfortunately the crew all have to die (apart from one), but thats the price you pay to get stuff done.
What is the point of harpooning a asteroid? I dont get it.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/152/whalers8kp.jpg
Were Whalers on the Moon... Who Carry a Harpoon!
Does this mean that Futurama is an actual accurate account of events that are yet to happen?
http://moonwhalers.ytmnd.com/
What a tremendous ..As you were. What a Horrendous waste of tax payer money and resources. They need to use that money trying to find alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
What a tremendous ..As you were. What a Horrendous waste of tax payer money and resources. They need to use that money trying to find alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
They should get a creepy old guy with a asteroid bone leg to go nuts and throw it at the rock while shouting:
"to the last I grapple with thee, from hell's heart I stab at thee, for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee"
Unfortunately the crew all have to die (apart from one), but thats the price you pay to get stuff done.