NASA: Building Asteroid Interceptor!

We won't be need Bruce Willis to save us anymore.

...and the Liberals mocked Reagan when he spoke about his "Star Wars" platform in the 80's, that man was a visionary, even though that was missile defense!

No Bruce Willis 🙁

ghey.

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
We won't be need Bruce Willis to save us anymore.

Nonsense, we'll just need him as John McLane when terrorists hijack it.

Thank god for you.

I think they underestimate the size speed and power in these asteroids.

A massive chunk of rock bombing along at mach 300 isn´that easy to stop no matter what you hit it with, especially if its Metallic.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
I think they underestimate the size speed and power in these asteroids.

A massive chunk of rock bombing along at mach 300 isn´that easy to stop no matter what you hit it with, especially if its Metallic.

Have you run the calculations? If you have, did you include a decaying orbit variable with that calculation? (That probably wouldn't matter on this small time table/orbit 😄)

Other than mixing up English and metric units...NASA calculates things to extreme mathematical precision. (Sheesh...that's a hard thing to sell now that they have that on their record....*sigh*.)