Warning! Mars evacuation plan has been activated

razgriz · Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:33 am

might need to get the lil green stuff for that night, and i aint talkin martians

no seriously drugs r bad mkay

Bord · Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:16 pm

Where's the Satellite System when you need it!? No, seriously, I'm worried about its possible effects on Earth when it hits mars. Fragments would probably rain here, but in the rare and unfortunate event that it changes course and heads for us, we can blow it up right? I mean, we have lots of nukes in the US alone to shatter this big rock.

Nagato21 · Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:44 am

Bord wrote:Where's the Satellite System when you need it!? No, seriously, I'm worried about its possible effects on Earth when it hits mars. Fragments would probably rain here, but in the rare and unfortunate event that it changes course and heads for us, we can blow it up right? I mean, we have lots of nukes in the US alone to shatter this big rock.

Don't you know? Nukes don't do squat to asteroid because of their mass, speed and composition (dust and metal) the nukes won't be very effective.
Beside you'll need months of calculations and retrofiting an ICBM for an orbital strike would certainly take more time. But I am sure the AIR FORCE is working on the problem bet you they got an Excalebur Laser system or something ready just in case.

razgriz · Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:45 am

or they could do something pseudo armageddon-ish by having a piloted space shuttle armed with a very large and powerful nuke fly directly at the asteroid and detonate itself and the poor guys aboard on the 'roid surface in order to try and deflect it, assuming the asteroid isnt too big or small. obviously blasting it to a million pieces is just not an option with our level of technology.

~SEED~ · Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:51 pm

and then japan reveals the RX 78 2 GUNDAM! ( I hope) but seriously It will rain down as millions of fragments. But The thing is mars is quite big so if it does, we can only hope that earth gets a ring around it that WAS mars

DAG101 · Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:33 pm

razgriz wrote:or they could do something pseudo armageddon-ish by having a piloted space shuttle armed with a very large and powerful nuke fly directly at the asteroid and detonate itself and the poor guys aboard on the 'roid surface in order to try and deflect it, assuming the asteroid isnt too big or small. obviously blasting it to a million pieces is just not an option with our level of technology.

...and, blowing up an asteroid heading for earth is the absolut most retarded thing you can do. then, instead of having a large, "visible" (With equipment) rock, you have billions of them, which will hit a larger area of the earth. it's much easier to just load thousands of rockets on it, and push it away. and don't forget this:

The asteroid poses no threat to Earth.

that basically means the asteroid poses no threat to Earth.

The head of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program said the crash would be "cool."

What great scientific terminology

razgriz · Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:21 am

assuming you have enough prior warning in order to formulate an asteroid deflection plan to begin with. i've heard from some history channel program that about 90% of the sky, and its a pretty big sky isnt being monitored due to lack of manpower.

somebody call zaft and ask if we can borrow some of those meteor breakers

teslashark · Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:52 am

Zeonic Glory wrote:This will be something interesting to bring up in science class...

Unfortunately, the Oldsmobile Army (Mars Zeon) could destroy it before it hits...

but the grand zam isn't complete!

Zeonic Glory · Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:45 am

Aww, the morning news says that scientists say that it will miss Mars...

It was pretty random to see it on the news this morning. It caused massive lol though.

razgriz · Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:43 am

they didnt happen to mention its missing mars because its going to hit earth itself right? cuz that would really suck

ShadowCell · Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:54 am

So that pretty much ended the point of this thread, huh.

Lans · Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:45 pm

But the things about Chuck and Bruce isn't end yet.

Nagato21 · Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:36 pm

I have been searching but no news yet

I smell government conspiracy lol
I guess that ends the thread until more news

DAG101 · Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:31 pm

lans* wrote:But the things about Chuck and Bruce isn't end yet.

Damn! We forgot about Pierce Brosnan! lol

yeah, people have said things about this asteroid hitting earth, there is an asteroid that will pass close by earth (the date was like 2009, or something. within the next 5 years, for sure) and although they don't know exactly where it will go, there is a region of space that, if the asteroid passes through, it will loop around the sun and hit earth (which will take a few years, at least)

razgriz · Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:03 am

i'm waiting anxiously for that day when im watching tv and then...
"we interrupt regular programming for this special report"
followed by...
"we now have confirmed reports that the asteroid scientists predicted to collide with mars will now miss the red planet completely...well thats certainly good news for mars isn't it?

scientists now confirm that the asteroid will collide with earth instead...oh, oh my

mcred23 · Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:49 am

ShadowCell wrote:So that pretty much ended the point of this thread, huh.

Correct. Since the odds of the astroid hitting are now 1-in-10000 that it will hit, we have no need to keep open the subject (Particularly since most of what's being posted in this thread has little to actually do with the subject anyway).

So yeah, the story is over, and so is this thread.