10 minutes to impact. Intentional crash into asteroid to see if it changes orbit

Sep 26, 2022
5:07:02pm

BYUFBDAD All-American

From the dramatizations they've shown, it looks like a flea hitting a dog at a billion MPH. You'd think some math guys could figure this out without spending 10 months and hundreds of millions to see if it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RA8Tfa6Sck

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10 minutes to impact. Intentional crash into asteroid to see if it changes orbit

BYUFBDAD

9/26/22 5:07pm

You can do that, or you can get millions and millions in funding, and a job for

SalmonOfCapistrano

9/26/22 5:10pm

1 minute...

BYUFBDAD

9/26/22 5:14pm

Hope the don’t accidentally knock it into a trajectory towards earth

cheezedawg

9/26/22 5:16pm

Oh dang, you beat me to it.

Powerbait DPM

9/26/22 5:17pm

This is how the world ends. We knock an asteroid out of orbit and it come at

Powerbait DPM

9/26/22 5:17pm

That room during the celebration looks like a BYU alumni meeting w/ mint brownie

9/26/22 5:17pm

I thought it looked like the nerd World Cup celebration. Not really sure how to

BYUFBDAD

9/26/22 5:22pm

I used to work at the Applied Physics Lab

justAnotherCoug

9/26/22 5:43pm

Interesting to watch. Incredible clarity in the photos sent back in real time.

CougaReb

9/26/22 5:19pm

Hmmm....if a butterfly flaps it's wings.

Magic8Ball

9/26/22 5:20pm

In space

Ted Lasso

9/26/22 5:27pm

It starts. We fired the first shot. Now asteroids will respond in kind.

All-American

9/26/22 5:32pm

So long West Virginia.

DodgerMike

9/26/22 5:36pm

What if they accidentally redirect into Earth's path?

mudpupper

9/26/22 5:41pm

It can’t.

Blue Print

9/26/22 6:11pm

RE: It can’t.

FromCAtoUT

9/26/22 8:52pm

RE: It can’t.

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