• @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        Unfortunately in a worst case scenario this gets very political, if we do something about it in advance an impactor probe should do the job, if we decide to play the 1/50 odds and lose then the most effective short notice method is a nuke. Not a direct strike but a near detonation which vaporizes a section of the surface of the object with the outgoing plasma effectively functioning as a massive thruster. Actually doing this is not trivial but not hard either (from an engineering standpoint), the tricky part would be actually managing to launch it without every nation on earth that happens to have a beligerant leader saber rattling and stone walling the prospect of a launch until its too late even for a nuke to do any good.

        • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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          11 month ago

          I hope we didnt cut all of NASAs funding yet. I’d hate to leave that worst case scenario to Musk or Boeing to handle.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        11 month ago

        politics has an ugly way of forcing itself into your life, if you don’t already think about it.

        • @Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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          -31 month ago

          I have separate filter lists for both, posts and comments but I need to keep adding new ones every day. I guess “Mar a lago” is the one I’m adding today.

    • @Wahots@pawb.social
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      11 month ago

      DC, please. Move all the good museums and historical stuff first, but don’t tell the administration.

    • @bss03@infosec.pub
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      11 month ago

      I don’t believe it is a possible target given how the orbital disk of the asteroid intersects with the surface of the earth. That’s of we don’t change the orbit, if we decide that is necessary, we’ll probably try to get a complete miss instead of just changing the impact site.

      DON’T LOOK UP