Johnnie
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Launched Nov 2021, traveling at 14,000mph and will impact an asteroid that is about the size of a football stadium roughly 7 million miles from earth. Testing to see if an asteroid's trajectory can be altered.
Came in, saw this post, opened the link and 30 seconds later watched the IMPACT! Thanks!Launched Nov 2021, traveling at 14,000mph and will impact an asteroid that is about the size of a football stadium roughly 7 million miles from earth. Testing to see if an asteroid's trajectory can be altered.
I read somewhere that there is another probe (?) to visually monitor the effects of the impact (plume, fracture, etc...), but I haven't heard anything about it on the live stream.VERY cool images of BOTH asteroids! Incredible details!!!
Humans started this idea around 2015, 7 year later they apparently directly impacted a small asteroid far away from Earth. That is a remarkable accomplishment!
I guess now we wait to see if we diverted it's path?
I made that shot once without the computer.....Ready, aim, launch......... 14,000 mph, 10 months later nd 7 million miles away....... Bullseye. Pretty good shooters.
Totally understood that watching those scientists high 5 each other! Can't deny they probably accomplished more today than I did.Ready, aim, launch......... 14,000 mph, 10 months later nd 7 million miles away....... Bullseye. Pretty good shooters.
Bruce was in the hotseat, he didn't make it back.You guys.......Hollywood already did this years ago.....I think Bruce Willis even made it back...can't remember
It failed to divert it,in 8 days Bruce Willis is going to drill a hole in it to nuke it
Exactly, the ONLY thing likely to come from this is a Gary Larson cartoon.What always strikes me about watching these type missions is how much it apparently means to the people in the room. They've spent years trying to get this probe to hit an asteroid as a test. What they achieved was to change the orbit of one asteroid around another. They didn't blow it up. Didn't actually send it in another direction. Just altered the orbit slightly. Based on their reaction, you would think they had indeed saved mankind from extinction. Were I a part of that program, I would no doubt react the same. But I suspect the average American shrugs their shoulders and says, "cool", and then forgets about it by next week.
I'm not trying to downplay the achievement - I can appreciate the significance of it. But dozens to hundreds of trained scientists spent years of their time and $325M U.S. taxpayer dollars to shift a rock slightly in space. To defend against a threat that, statistically speaking, will never come in a thousand lifetimes.
Cool.
Trying to put it in context - it's a dramatic achievement of mankind that makes absolutely zero difference in the lives of nearly all of mankind.