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Yeah! It's also ridiculous because of the quote at the beginning: " When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies foun

Yeah! It's also ridiculous because of the quote at the beginning: " When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. " which totally demonstrates how unnecessary this is and how " it's pretty obvious one country or organization, somewhere, is going to try something about it if it means human race survival" I guess the organizations that will be doing something about it will be either 'Twitter' or 'youtube', my money is on Twitter. Have you tried Bootstrap, they will totally be able to handle this issue.

ekianjo 13y ago
> Yeah! It's also ridiculous because of the quote at the beginning: " When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. " It's because an asteroid of that size usually goes undetected and it's not the UN involvment which is going to change that. This was a very small piece of rock, it would have never destroyed the whole human race. This kind of asteroid is relatively frequent. They just don't fall next to populated areas very often, that's all. However, NASA is closely watching and building a database of the most massive rocks out there (and they are still doing it, if I recall correctly).
frezik 13y ago
Chelyabinsk-type cases are exactly why this is needed. Asteroids big enough to cause mass extinction events are rare, and hardly worth talking about except in the extreme long term. However, much smaller asteroids that could potentially destroy a city are more common. If it struck in the right place during a contentious period of international politics (say, the Cuban Missile Crisis), it could easily be mistaken for a preemptive nuclear strike. Of course, the radiation pattern would quickly disprove this, but such evidence is not likely to defuse the situation if there's a lot of hot-headed people running around. In such a case, just knowing ahead of time that it's coming would prevent a catastrophic loss of civilization. That's not even counting the humanitarian effects of evacuating the people in the predicted strike zone.

ekianjo 13y ago

> Yeah! It's also ridiculous because of the quote at the beginning: " When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. " It's because an asteroid of that size usually goes undetected and it's not the UN involvment which is going to change that. This was a very small piece of rock, it would have never destroyed the whole human race. This kind of asteroid is relatively frequent. They just don't fall next to populated areas very often, that's all. However, NASA is closely watching and building a database of the most massive rocks out there (and they are still doing it, if I recall correctly).

frezik 13y ago

Chelyabinsk-type cases are exactly why this is needed. Asteroids big enough to cause mass extinction events are rare, and hardly worth talking about except in the extreme long term. However, much smaller asteroids that could potentially destroy a city are more common. If it struck in the right place during a contentious period of international politics (say, the Cuban Missile Crisis), it could easily be mistaken for a preemptive nuclear strike. Of course, the radiation pattern would quickly disprove this, but such evidence is not likely to defuse the situation if there's a lot of hot-headed people running around. In such a case, just knowing ahead of time that it's coming would prevent a catastrophic loss of civilization. That's not even counting the humanitarian effects of evacuating the people in the predicted strike zone.