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Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 02:54:40 UTC No. 16263669
An asteroid six-miles in diameter is going to hit the Earth in two months and wipe out humanity. If you had all of Earth's technology and resources at your disposal, how would you stop it?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:07:50 UTC No. 16263678
>two months
>six miles
launch the nukes and hope it deflects the trajectory enough to miss us
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:11:44 UTC No. 16263680
>>16263678
Do nukes work in space?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:17:12 UTC No. 16263688
>>16263669
Why would I want to stop it?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:19:16 UTC No. 16263690
>>16263669
>Six miles diameter
Just as large as the Chicxulub asteroid that struck the Mexican gulf and caused fucking nothing to happen
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:47:16 UTC No. 16263712
>>16263690
An asteroid that big would cause massive ecological damage like tsunamis and debris in our atmosphere. Regardless of where it landed it would almost certainly cause a famine too, as our population is barely able to be sustained by our current agricultural output, and famine would lead to wars and mass immigration as people fought over food.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:57:03 UTC No. 16263721
>>16263669
Idk, probably like that movie with Ben Afflack and Bruce
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 04:16:26 UTC No. 16263757
>>16263680
Not really. Best they could achieve is *maybe* break up the asteroid but all the pieces are still moving in essentially the same trajectory and the same amount of mass would hit the earth. Scientist did a whole conference about ideas how to stop such a scenario and the tl;dr was we're fucked, nothing would work.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 05:25:03 UTC No. 16263855
>>16263712
The Georgia Guidestones will have their day of revenge.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 11:38:48 UTC No. 16264212
I acquire the power of Mega Evolution and fly Fug through it to destroy it, then I capture the Deoxys that was living inside it. Then I return to Earth and breed Zinnia.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:09:21 UTC No. 16264280
>>16263757
what about if you somehow made a nuke detonate close to the center of the asteroid? obviously some fragments are going to hit earth, but wouldn't that cause most of them to get blown away in other directions?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:16:31 UTC No. 16264288
>>16263690
>>16263712
Raw asteroid size isn't same as asteroid impact size retards.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:18:00 UTC No. 16264291
>>16263669
Best bet is get it spinning along major diameter and hope that its own size tears it apart or try to get another object into its path, or both.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:21:32 UTC No. 16264295
>>16263712
>Barely able to be sustained by our current agricultural output
You're full of shit.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 18:18:06 UTC No. 16264640
>>16263680
You bet your fat ass they do. The absolute best option for deflecting asteroids is nukes. The burst of X-rays a nuke provides can vaporize the the entire surface providing a soft push. This has a lower risk of fragmenting the asteroid. Nukes are illegal to use in space though, but in the event of an asteroid this size, we'd light the fucker up.
>>16263669
But with that little warning time there's only one option, PULVERIZE IT!
https://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/proj
You punch a hole in the rock and throw nukes in to disrupt it. Earth gets a shower of rocks spread out through time, so it's not that bad
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 21:50:08 UTC No. 16265009
>>16263669
>if you had all of Earth's technology and resources at your disposal
id be fucking all the woman i could and let nature take its course
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 21:59:00 UTC No. 16265019
>>16264280
>but wouldn't that cause most of them to get blown away in other directions?
Nope. A 6 mile diameter asteroid a _lot_ of mass, a single nuke isn't going to do that much to it. Also any fragments are likely to remain close together from self-gravity. In fact most asteroids are just that, rubble piles. A slush of ice + rubble + rock rather than a single large stone.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 22:04:52 UTC No. 16265029
>>16263712
>our population is barely able to be sustained by our current agricultural output
The US alone could sustain the entire world and still have capacity left over.
>In fact most asteroids are just that, rubble piles. A slush of ice + rubble + rock rather than a single large stone.
Sounds like a comet, not an asteroid.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 02:17:03 UTC No. 16265293
>>16263669
I would pray to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:54:19 UTC No. 16266179
>>16264640
>Earth gets a shower of rocks spread out through time, so it's not that bad
The energy would be the same of a single impact, and equally disruptive to our ecosystem.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:58:49 UTC No. 16266186
>>16266179
No it would not. A stick of dynamite does much less damage if it releases its energy slowly by burning rather than by exploding.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:07:25 UTC No. 16266213
>>16266186
If you're talking about the shockwave it will be smaller but the energy released is really the same.
Different things.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:12:00 UTC No. 16266219
>>16263669
i agree with the nuke posters, try to not blow it up but only try deflect it.
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Jul 2024 06:07:54 UTC No. 16267288
>>16263669
Use tech from project Orion to design a large device that will have enough speed to penetrate the asteroid deep enough so that when a nuclear blast is set off it will break pieces off of it. Do this over the two months and it should be broken into small enough pieces that most of the matter will burn off when it enters the atmosphere.
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Jul 2024 07:17:17 UTC No. 16267346
>>16263712
you try to sound like you know what you are talking about but you are clueless
we could feed entire earths population maybe 2-3 times over
all of the worlds hunger issues are issues of distribution, waste and greed
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Jul 2024 07:52:36 UTC No. 16267370
>>16267346
'distribution' would collapse the transport economy
'waste' is called spoiled food that has or will soon become inedible
'greed' is called living in the real world which apparently you don't live in
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Jul 2024 07:56:57 UTC No. 16267374
>>16263669
>how would you stop it?
why would I?
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Jul 2024 08:14:37 UTC No. 16267380
>>16267370
>'distribution' would collapse the transport economy
not really, but yeah it would be hard (not impossible)
>'waste' is called spoiled food that has or will soon become inedible
majority of this happens because of shop overstocking and people buying more food that they can eat
>'greed' is called living in the real world which apparently you don't live in
literally just greed and politics
producers would rather throw away produce than sell it with little or no profit, same goes for transport fees
and since we're talking about hypotetical end of the world scenario with all resourcess aviable to single decision making entity you are full of shit
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Jul 2024 08:50:07 UTC No. 16267395
>>16267380
>not really, but yeah it would be hard (not impossible)
You don't understand. All of the shipping is locked into contracts that would have to be broken. You can't just force them to break their contracts.
>majority of this happens because of shop overstocking and people buying more food that they can eat
And you think its feasible to take that food and ship it half-way around the world? lmao
>literally just greed and politics
>producers would rather throw away produce than sell it with little or no profit, same goes for transport fees
Only retards in the first world go hungry. Just steal food ffs
>and since we're talking about hypotetical end of the world scenario with all resourcess aviable to single decision making entity you are full of shit
its a totally different scenario