- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Guess what Nessy, I'm a little bit older than 17, and I did pass high school physics. Now, if you are so intelligent you would know that the earth moves the equivalent of it's diameter in just six minutes. So nudging an asteroid by even a few degrees off it's tragectory by the use of a small satellite (or gravity tractor as the scientists call it) would delay an asteroids arrival long enough for the earth to move out of the way on it's own accord. Therefore my original arguement is still valid. And if you are interested here is one of my Sources. You conveniently ignore the fact that over a decade or two even a small nudge from a gravity tractor satellite would change the asteroids tragectory enough to put it into a safe orbit. Please do some research before you bring my intelligence into question again.
Now, I tire of this little debate between you and I, especially since you haven't brought anything constructive to said debate. I won't be making another reply to you, so go ahead and hit me with another one of your (not so) cleverly disguised flames.
BTW Cheesemaster, a nuclear detonation would most likely have the effect of shattering an asteroid into smaller, but still equally dangerous, fragments. As well as still raining down a rather uncomfortable amount of radiation.
Suddenly I have not brought anything new to the debate? What a pathetic thing to say, do you think that is clever? I am flaming you? You come out of nowhere and call me ignorant, like you do in every thread. If you knew anything about physics, you would know that:
A. Due to gravitational pull and such, just because the asteroid will move to the side a few hundred feet if we had DECADES of time to work it out, doesn't give any extra time to the earth, that the difference between destroying the world and destroying the world.
B. That site is not simply using gravity to move the asteroid.