Its actually illegal to send nukes into outer space...its been so since the Outer Space Treaty of 1967
Libertarians, do you think asteroids should be left to the free market?
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I can't believe people are seriously arguing that we should leave asteroid detection to the free market.
Best idea I've heard is to use something to nudge it out of the collision course.
If we knew decades in advance that an asteroid was headed for earth, we could maybe attach a spacecraft to it and push it until it changed orbit. Or maybe landing a spacecraft onto the asteroid, drilling into it, and ejecting material from it (thus reducing it's mass and changing its orbit). Of course that kind of stuff would only work if we had lots of advance notice. If we didn't then we'd have to nuke it and hope for the best.
Bruce Willis?
Probably..Apparently the US has been getting increasingly interested in working with the Russians on a nuclear option actually..but I thought it was worth noting.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid-impact_avoidance
Just saying...you saw what happened to the dinosaurs.
NASA has programs in place.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
Should we leave extinction level events to the invisible hand?
If there would be no market incentive? Why make laws preventing the market from exploring it?...Seems like a waste of time, energy, and tax money, unless...
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Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
at the 1%ers rushing to fill our problems in light of a catastrophe.... You gotta be stupid to really believe that.These dudes would probably rather create shelters for themselves, launch themselves out in space in time to miss the blast, and then land after everyone was
Goddamn
but who knows what idea could come from the open market
I remember this thread
Risk the extinction of the human race because of your political ideology, brehs
Edit: That was funny until I realized that's actually happening w/climate change. I just depressed myself.
Risk the extinction of the human race because of your political ideology, brehs
Edit: That was funny until I realized that's actually happening w/climate change. I just depressed myself.
Seems like a waste of time, energy, and tax money, unless...
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
@DEAD7 thinks The Market is a person, a God
It's really interesting how this fanatical belief in the market mirrors religiosity. Why don't they think humanity can rationally harness and control the productive forces it develops?
Because ProfitMotiveZeus will lead the way for us mere mortal plebsIt's really interesting how this fanatical belief in the market mirrors religiosity. Why don't they think humanity can rationally harness and control the productive forces it develops?
joeychizzle
光復香港，時代革命
If there indeed was a civilization ending asteroid hurtling towards us we would blow it up to smithereens, fukk all that shyt about accepting some imaginary character's will :fohmayne:you just gonna accept the end of humanity because of some book some crusty illiterate goat
Lots of pieces still better than one, because they would burn up more in the atmosphere and be slowed down more by air resistance. I'd much rather have it come down in a thousands parts than as one big killer bomb.
I think, though, that the point of a nuke would be more to blow up one side and therefore deflect the asteroid's course than to blow it into little pieces.
405lb deadlift is meh...
405lb squat would have me
Man, when I was 18 I was up to 375lb squat before I blew out my knee.
Was repping 445lb on dead lift too....but I did pull a muscle in my lower back doing that, so maybe that was stupid.