Doomsday Asteroid cannot be stopped

[CasualBystander]

Who says we will be around in 2135 .

Well...


You and I (the collective we) won't be around.


But there will still be humans on the planet earth.

Humans are harder to kill than cockroaches.

 

[notdej]

However there are methods that are cheaper with fewer incidental side effects.

owever there are methods that are cheaper with fewer incidental side effects.

what, like semtex? yeah i guess i didn't think of the thousands of people in my area- very selfish of me-& very stupid of me:

where would i get a nuclear bomb from?

 

[Caeldeth]

Well..

The first thing we should be doing is freezing Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck until at least 2134.

 

[CasualBystander]

This isn't a hard problem.

The earth is moving about 30 km/s. Impacts from asteroids are in the 10 km/s to 60 km/s range.

If we launch a 10 ton steel disk (a large flat washer) and hit an asteroid at 60 km/s relative velocity this would alter its orbit.

A giant washer with an EMDrive is all you would need.

Changing Orbit

If you hit it at the point opposite in the orbit from where it might impact earth you can shift the orbit at the potential impact point up or down relative to the sun.

 

[SOUL-DRIFTER]

we'll probably have the tech to stop it before 2135

Now that I can agree with.

 

[SOUL-DRIFTER]

Who says we will be around in 2135 .

I will be...in a parallel universe. I step back just long enough to see the fireworks.

 

[Area201]

I was concerned for a minute, then I saw it's over 100 years from now.

 

[Wraith Sheppard]

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

I was concerned for a minute, then I saw it's over 100 years from now.

I doubt I'd be alarmed if I was alive at that time......our technology might be advanced by that point. Or at least enough to nudge it off course. I'd also say we'll have new forms of propulsion by then as well.

 

[Area201]

"Becoming a multi planet species beats the hell out of being a single planet species" - Musk

good enough argument

Still not over Earth would beat the hell out of the two. But there's only so much one person can do.