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ER Chief
Nov 28th, 2005, 12:25 AM
you know what's funny, is that if an asteroid is on a collision course with the earth, the movie Armageddon gives the planet a perfect idea of how to save the earth from it's own short sitedness. How ever if a comet was to impact earth we wouldn't be able to prevent it from hitting us. i mean being realistic there is no way we can prevent it from colliding with the earth. We can do everything that any government can come up with and it'll just smile and keep on comin'. it a comet was to hit earth, we would have only a two year notice so we would only be able to make an under ground shelter and have a few million people live down there until it's okay to head to the surface.
Astroboy
Dec 8th, 2005, 7:23 PM
The only thing is that US has power to save y'all... Guess americans loves us too much.
stewey
Dec 9th, 2005, 5:40 PM
The only thing is that US has power to save y'all... Guess americans loves us too much.

Ironic isn't it?

The world's most hated country is the only one who could reliably save it from an incoming stellar object.
Astroboy
Dec 9th, 2005, 5:57 PM
Glad ya caught the irony! Amerians are like so intelligently powerful, their bubbles holding up pretty well long enough... heh
Jmorrison
Dec 10th, 2005, 12:06 AM
what abiut china & japan?
salvador
Dec 10th, 2005, 6:10 AM
'Scuse me, darlings. Europe also has a space programme. E.g. The Giotto probe intercepted Halley's Comet in 1986. Titan is the farthest object to have been landed on by a space probe (Huygens in January this year -- admittedly carried there by an American vehicle, but that was to share the cost of the mission). Britain and France have nuclear weapons, and the European Union is hugely wealthy, with some highly able brains. Some Americans just don't like to admit it.

Giotto:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=15

Cassini-Huygens:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4175099.stm