If Asteroid Apophis Hits Earth

[1srelluc]

Roll the dice and a month before, buy a beach front home on the W coast for pennies on the dollar?

I don't know what we are gonna do, Bruce Willis has the dementia and Michael Clark Duncan is dead.

Jokes aside I’m starting to have faith that we could do something about it thanks to Elon Musk.

If not, surf's up to Denver!

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

NASA and Elon Musk need to get together and send a craft to Apophis, have it land and with powerful thrusters, move it into a geo-stationary orbit over Earth then work on studying and mining it when possible.

 

[White 6]

Roll the dice and a month before, buy a beach front home on the W coast for pennies on the dollar?

I don't know what we are gonna do, Bruce Willis has the dementia and Michael Clark Duncan is dead.

Jokes aside I’m starting to have faith that we could do something about it thanks to Elon Musk.

If not, surf's up to Denver!

Not hitting earth. I would not waste much concern on it.

 

[fncceo]

Please don’t sent Bruce Willis to blow it up.

 

[1srelluc]

Not hitting earth. I would not waste much concern on it.

Did your Magic 8-Ball tell you that?

Damn....Mine said "Without a doubt".....Oh Shit!

 

[fncceo]

Did your magic 8-Ball tell you that?

Damn....Mine said "Without a doubt".....Oh Shit!

Mine says “Answer Hazy. Ask Again Later”.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My Magic 8-ball was so old, it died.

So 2036 is more likely if it happens? I will be 75 years old, the same age as when my Dad died. I'm good with that if it happens and it takes me! I just hope they haven't screwed up the math like they did on the Mars mission that crashed because somebody used the wrong units of measure.

 

[westwall]

Roll the dice and a month before, buy a beach front home on the W coast for pennies on the dollar?

I don't know what we are gonna do, Bruce Willis has the dementia and Michael Clark Duncan is dead.

Jokes aside I’m starting to have faith that we could do something about it thanks to Elon Musk.

If not, surf's up to Denver!

It's only the size of the Rose Bowl. Easily broken apart by a nuke. Let the atmosphere deal with the rest.

 

[westwall]

NASA and Elon Musk need to get together and send a craft to Apophis, have it land and with powerful thrusters, move it into a geo-stationary orbit over Earth then work on studying and mining it when possible.

Not a terrible idea. Probably cost far more than it's worth, but it is doable.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Original Magic 8 Ball

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[westwall]

My Magic 8-ball was so old, it died.

So 2036 is more likely if it happens? I will be 75 years old, the same age as when my Dad died. I'm good with that if it happens and it takes me! I just hope they haven't screwed up the math like they did on the Mars mission that crashed because somebody used the wrong units of measure.

It has to hit a magic spot in space, if it does that the odds of it hitting in 2036 rise to a near certainty.

If that scenario happens it will impact in the Pacific west of the Channel Islands.

 

[1srelluc]

It's only the size of the Rose Bowl. Easily broken apart by a nuke. Let the atmosphere deal with the rest.

Some say just the congenic energy by hitting it with something would do the trick.....Who knows.

 

[toobfreak]

Roll the dice and a month before, buy a beach front home on the W coast for pennies on the dollar?

Astronomers are pretty certain of their calculations--- these are the people who figure out down to the second just when to launch a rocket from where at what angle, speed and trajectory that years later it arrives at Pluto and skims over the surface!

So this rock will skim the Earth in just over 5 years just barely 20,000 miles above the surface, then around 2035, will plunge into the ocean?

Isn't that the same year that Biden's EV mandate and green climate accords take effect?

If a rock the size of the Rose Bowl hits (seats 90,000 people), I can't think of a better place to hit than the mid-Pacific. Still, you can kiss your nuts goodbye if you are along the west coast, Japan, Hawaii, south Alaska, or the east coast of Asia.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It has to hit a magic spot in space, if it does that the odds of it hitting in 2036 rise to a near certainty.

If that scenario happens it will impact in the Pacific west of the Channel Islands.

Thank you, Captain Obvious! In that case, sign me up! Watching it land from one of those islands would be one hell of a way to go! Life on planet Earth might not be too pleasant after that. I don't think there will be room up there in space for an old geezer like me.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Not a terrible idea. Probably cost far more than it's worth, but it is doable.

Best put it at a Lagrange point, rather than an orbit.

 

[toobfreak]

It's only the size of the Rose Bowl. Easily broken apart by a nuke. Let the atmosphere deal with the rest.

Well, if they were to nuke it at just the right time after it skims the Earth in 5 years heading back out into space away from us then the fragments would likely be sent into new trajectories and most of them would likely never find their way back to Earth.

 

[White 6]

Did your magic 8-Ball tell you that?

Damn....Mine said "Without a doubt".....Oh Shit!

My understanding the it would have to center up through a gravitational keyhole approximately 1 kilometer in size for to be a possibility, even by 2036, kind of removes the probability. Of course that is according to science and mathematics. The next gravitational keyhole could make it for 2051, when I will be 97 years old, and even less concerned.

99942 Apophis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[toobfreak]

Original Magic 8 Ball

magic-8ball.com

I asked it the big question.

 

[toobfreak]

Thank you, Captain Obvious! In that case, sign me up! Watching it land from one of those islands would be one hell of a way to go!

There would not be much to see. It would come in at probably something like 90,000 mph, and all you would see is a bright light overhead for 1-3 seconds before you were annihilated by a blistering shock front of blinding light, wind and heat that would toast you before the thing even hit.

 

[Yarddog]

My understanding the it would have to center up through a gravitational keyhole approximately 1 kilometer in size for to be a possibility, even by 2036, kind of removes the probability. Of course that is according to science and mathematics. The next gravitational keyhole could make it for 2051, when I will be 97 years old, and even less concerned.

99942 Apophis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I certainly hope you make it that long