Scientists plan mission, “The aim is to assess whether it would be possible to save Earth using this method, should we discover that an asteroid is on a collision course with our planet. One potential target is a 1600ft-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis, which experts say does have a minute chance – around one in 250,000 – of hitting Earth in 2036, so it would be useful target practice.”
However ,according to the Plejaren ET, Ptaah, from Nov 26, 2008 ( Billy Meier Contact #475 ), blowing it up is NOT the best course of action.
Billy: “To my knowledge various models exist for this purpose, but the scientists cannot come to a mutual agreement on this. You are saying that the fellow shall be pushed from its orbit, and I gather from it that blowing it up is out of question. Therefore, only a reaction principle could be applied, like e.g. an extremely strong nuclear reaction unit, sun sail principles, or atomic explosions near the meteor.”
Ptaah: “Whereby atomic explosions near the meteor should be considered, because they are very efficient and produce a strong drift(ing) effect. However, the explosions may not occur too close to the meteor in order to avoid breaking it up, from which an even greater danger would result. Such a project must be executed early and not at that time when the real danger is starting to threaten, because otherwise it would be too late for a success. Therefore working towards it must be started today. ”
Comic strip about the danger of Apophis, aka \"The Red Meteor\"
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What a bunch of bullshit. Total waste of taxpayer money in order to create fear. Fear creates a docile, manipulated public.
Save me! Save me! Give me your agenda, hook, line and sinker!
ya ever hear of the Yucatan Peninsula & dinosaur extinction?
you do notice that its the Euroland that is funding the bill? .. that is because, if Apophis hits earth, it is forecast to hit in the heart of Europe.
Burying ones head is not a solution.
God forbid we spend money on innovation and the technologies that will come out of it. Rather we should continue to invest money on turning corn into fuel and other genius ideas.
Turn corn into fuel? Why didn’t I think of that. Damn SHAZAM!
99942 Apophis’s next close approach is in 2013. It’ll be close enough that we’ll have enough data to judge for certain whether that 1:250K chance is zero, or uncomfortably high.
If we lose that 1:250K bet in 2013, and we have no mission ready to go, we’re basically toast in 2036.
If, on the other hand, we have something ready for 2015, the timing and the data are perfect. Either there’s no risk, and we learn something about how asteroids work. Or there’s uncomfortable risk, and this 2015 mission is a planetsaver. Win-win.
The dinosaurs are extinct because they lacked a space program. We have no such excuse.
I like your logic.
“The dinosaurs are extinct because they lacked a space program”
Actually, the fossil record is not inconsistent with the notion that the dinosaurs DID have a space program, and they used it to migrate en masse to other star systems before the asteroid hit Earth.
They left the cockroaches behind.
You may have a career ahead of you as a sci-fi writer. Good stuff.