NASA: Shoving 188 million up a rathole to study black holes

[CNS]

Identify, monitor, and if one is calculated to hit us, invent a way to redirect to a different course. 

[renocat]

i mean, what would nasa do about it

Shoot.gorillas and.orcas at it to knock.it out of its.orbit.

[star seed 7]

Mocat never saw Armageddon

[mocat]

i would probably be ok with trump nuking TF out of an asteroid, especially if it happened at night time in the western hemisphere and it caused a big enough exploji that i could see it

[star seed 7]

Yeah that would be great

[CNS]

If we know about one in time, they have been working on small drives that exert tiny amts of force over long periods of time that can gently move the course of one.

Also, I have heard interviews where the speaker said it could be as simple as painting one side of it and not the other.

I mean, we are talking about going to mars and stuff, but you guys think we can't move a rock?

Blowing one up could take one spot on earth that gets totally devastated and make it 2 or 3 or 4.

[mocat]

Also, I have heard interviews where the speaker said it could be as simple as painting one side of it and not the other.

  so simple 

[renocat]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-007
Appears there is an official NASA astroid fighting ageny.  Give black hole money to this if it won't be used for.sewer and water system fixing.  Obama could head this.

[CNS]

Also, I have heard interviews where the speaker said it could be as simple as painting one side of it and not the other.

  so simple 

Yeah, MoDax, I'm not saying a house painter is going to go Sherwin Williams our way out of danger.   The point is something can be done if we have time to do it. 

[The Big Train]

Sheesh the mocat s188muartsbhiq is really low in here, not surprised tho

[Gooch]

We should go to Mars because we can, and we need to get back in the business of doing amazing things nobody else can do and then mushing the rest of the world's face in it. Planting the flag is the first objective. Any technological and industrial advances are just icing on the cake. Let's make NASA great again. Start by mothballing the ISS and defunding all climate research.

reading this post I was all like "F yeah KSU W, I totally agree that is a killer idea!" and then it got stupid.

That last sentence.

[sonofdaxjones]

I'm not getting the CNS butthurt here.

So, a 10 story building sized 'stroid rolls right between us and the moon, and we didn't see it until 48 hours out, but we're gonna spend like a gazzillion dollars on black hole stuff.

I mean, if we get swallowed up by a black hole, I mean, gosh, that's game over for sure, right?   But as CNS (who is strangely butthurt) said, we might be able to do something about a 'stroid, I mean, we have oscar Willis, still.

[Dugout DickStone]

I'm not getting the CNS butthurt here.

So, a 10 story building sized 'stroid rolls right between us and the moon, and we didn't see it until 48 hours out, but we're gonna spend like a gazzillion dollars on black hole stuff.

I mean, if we get swallowed up by a black hole, I mean, gosh, that's game over for sure, right?   But as CNS (who is strangely butthurt) said, we might be able to do something about a 'stroid, I mean, we have oscar Willis, still.

but for how long?   

[CNS]

Well, Afleck will be around once oscar is gone.  He has that experience too.

I just think we need to fund something that does a better job of finding these things and coming up with what to do when we find them, depending on timelines.  I mean, that could just be my massive aching butthurt talking, though.

Other than what we know is out there(see that pic) I have heard interviews where ppl think we know a very small portion of what is actually out there(see big rock that almost hit us). 

To help boost this, we could pair it up with getting closer to mining them.  I mean, mining is probably the one thing that will expedite our space program.  As soon as we can start making money by doing it, everyone will be trying to do it.

[The Big Train]

To help boost this, we could pair it up with getting closer to mining them.  I mean, mining is probably the one thing that will expedite our space program.  As soon as we can start making money by doing it, everyone will be trying to do it.

Now I've heard everything.  We just have to send drilling equipment up there and will just be a feeding frenzy.  It's gonna take about a trillion just to get an ounce back.

[CNS]

You know this, but a lot of the NASA types think that this is the key to further space exploration.  They want to use astroids as gas stations for fuel.

[The Big Train]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be.  The computational capacity to adjust mid flight for new ones would be incredibly hard.  We can't even land on one without crashing it right now. 

[Dugout DickStone]

Space sex tourism is next boom I'm telling you

[CNS]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be. 

Well, the exact thing I started posting about ITT is funding a process to locate them all.   

[cfbandyman]

If we know about one in time, they have been working on small drives that exert tiny amts of force over long periods of time that can gently move the course of one.

Also, I have heard interviews where the speaker said it could be as simple as painting one side of it and not the other.

I mean, we are talking about going to mars and stuff, but you guys think we can't move a rock?

Blowing one up could take one spot on earth that gets totally devastated and make it 2 or 3 or 4.

The solution I've heard is very easy (comparatively), just send a craft, have it orbit around it in such a way is slowly alter it's trajectory that way. No need for extra propulsion.

That's really big reason behind the capture and asteroid into moon's orbit project. Test the ability to do so.

[The Big Train]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be. 

Well, the exact thing I started posting about ITT is funding a process to locate them all.   

Kepler makes sense for finding new planets.  How do you even start finding astroids and comets when you have no sun behind them?

[cfbandyman]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be. 

Well, the exact thing I started posting about ITT is funding a process to locate them all.   

Kepler makes sense for finding new planets.  How do you even start finding astroids and comets when you have no sun behind them?

Gravitational anomalies

[CNS]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be. 

Well, the exact thing I started posting about ITT is funding a process to locate them all.   

Kepler makes sense for finding new planets.  How do you even start finding astroids and comets when you have no sun behind them?

Probably one of the first things that NASA needs to figure out once we fund that project.

[The Big Train]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be. 

Well, the exact thing I started posting about ITT is funding a process to locate them all.   

Kepler makes sense for finding new planets.  How do you even start finding astroids and comets when you have no sun behind them?

Gravitational anomalies

Effecting what?  Are we just gonna measure every object in the Kuiper belt that we know of for the differences in their orbits we know nothing about?  Every planets trillionth of a fraction orbit movement?  Something that small doesn't have gravitational lensing either.  It's not as easy as you think

[The Big Train]

That would be the dream if we knew where they would all be. 

Well, the exact thing I started posting about ITT is funding a process to locate them all.   

Kepler makes sense for finding new planets.  How do you even start finding astroids and comets when you have no sun behind them?

Probably one of the first things that NASA needs to figure out once we fund that project.

I could see using radio telescopes like sonar but you could only do a hundredth of a fraction of a percent of the sky in a year.  It's a very challenging question for sure.