[Nicihntm]

pah asteroids are boring...

soooooooooo

what would be the safest place to be if the earth was hit by a haemoroid ?

[HakTaisanip]

Bradford or Birmingham or Wolves

[Dominick Yo]

North Yorkshire would be awesome.

North Yorkshire, England

What the hell is your problem with North Yorkshire? I can't think of any place in North Yorkshire I dislike.

[Nicihntm]

You've perhaps misread the term "radiation" in the context is was used in - for example, radiation is often applied to electromagnetic waves. Although asteroids certainly contain radioactive elements, they don't carry anything near the quantity or type necessary to initiate a mass burst of nuclear radiation upon impact. The heat from the collision might cause some fusion to take place but, again, it wouldn't cause serious amounts of radiation.

hes probably thinking of radiated heat in the form of a massive fireball

unless of course the aseroid was made up of plutonium

[evarekataVame]

North Yorkshire, England

North Yorkshire would be awesome.

hey! thats not very nice.

[dmitrynts]

The carwash across the street.
Anything to stop the customers from blaring-out that constant barrage farckin' reggaeton music while they spit-shine their cars. [cursing]

[Caregrasy]

actually a single impact might not have kill the dinosaur at all... newer studies shows the single impact kill scenario as being unlikely, it maybe that there were a few impact!

if the rock is very BIG, earth gravity may cause enough stress on the rock to break it apart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit). we won't be looking at 1 "killzone" but many... carpet bombing style...


so maybe you would ask for a list of impact site instead of believing in hollywood's single impact theory.

The rouche limit only applies to objects orbiting a planet, not to an asteroid smashing straight into a planet.

[CO2490pL]

Basically what we should do is build a triangle shaped space ship to shoot the asteroids into two pieces, then shoot those pieces into even smaller pieces. This way we wont have to worry about it actually hitting the earth.

[ChuttyAmult]

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[Nicihntm]

Basically what we should do is build a triangle shaped space ship to shoot the asteroids into two pieces, then shoot those pieces into even smaller pieces. This way we wont have to worry about it actually hitting the earth.

yeah and make it overly hard to control

[Caregrasy]

Basically what we should do is build a triangle shaped space ship to shoot the asteroids into two pieces, then shoot those pieces into even smaller pieces. This way we wont have to worry about it actually hitting the earth.

How are we supposed to stop a 10km (6 mile) wide asteroid with today's technology?

[CO2490pL]

How are we supposed to stop a 10km (6 mile) wide asteroid with today's technology?

We have the technology, the ship will be powered using a MOS 6502 which should give it more than enough grunt to split an asteroid easily in two pieces.

[OnlineViagraCheapestFREE]

Holland!

/ checks average height above sea level....

No - wait!........

[rofl]

[pharmablogger]

unless of course the aseroid was made up of plutonium

Plutonium in asteroids and the like, found today, is pretty low in radiation; since asteroids formed in our solar system at the same time as the Earth did, only Pu-244 would be around in any decent amount (as it has the longest half-life). But this, in turn, would mean it's level of radioactivity is really low.

Basically, asteroids just aren't radioactive enough to worry us - the fact that they're travelling at ludicrous speeds, with a shed load of mass, is though...

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

Holland!

/ checks average height above sea level....

No - wait!........

[rofl]

Not funny, I'm already preparing my son to swim to school in a couple off years