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Have you met geeks? > sufficient warning Well, yes, quite. Wouldn't we be better off making sure we can reliably find them first?
by defiblep 11y ago
Have you met geeks?
> sufficient warning
Well, yes, quite. Wouldn't we be better off making sure we can reliably find them first?
- privong 11y ago> Wouldn't we be better off making sure we can reliably find them first? People are already are working on that. For example, there's the NEOWISE project[0], which used the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to look for potentially dangerous astroids. And there is a ongoing effort for a new space mission, NEOCAM[1], specifically designed to do this same thing and find more objects. [0] http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/programs/neowise.html http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/programs/neowise.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_Object_Camera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_Object_Camera
- Hobietime 11y agoThey propose additions use cases for the array in their papers. These include a LIDAR based detection system. I'm on my phone right now so I can't link the appropriate one. Let me know if you are interested and I can find it later.