Avoiding the Big Crash

I wonder how long Apophis has been out there in it's orbit. Since it's discovery in 2004 we hear all these doomsday events that will happen as it passes by. The pass in 2029 has been down grade on the Torino Impact hazard Scale. There is the pass in 2036 that has been of concerned. They give it a little more the 2% chance of hitting.

As far as a multinational space effort isn't that what the space station is suppose to be? Is this a scare to do more? Either way any advancement into space is a plus. Can't depend on this rock being here for ever.

2030? 2036? In late 2012 Earth will be struck by a huge Mayan calendar that has been out there threatening to destroy Earth ever since the advent of New Age publishing. Why am I the only one concerned?

You might be the only one on a scientific or engineering form who is concerned, but you would not be unique on a newage or religion forum. Perhaps there is a choice: go with knowledge, or go elsewhere.

Just as most cars do not explode when the odometer turns over at 100,000, the universe will not crap out just because the Mayan calendar ends one cycle and begins the next. As for the planetary alignment, just do some gravitational arithmetic....

I think you misread that one Tornado... it was hilariously funny.

Wouldn't be a terrible idea to give it a dry run on a rock that is only a potential hazard rather than waiting until the real thing comes along only to discover we have overlooked some critical detail of execution.

It would indeed, but we can easily side-step that problem by deliberately overlooking a critical detail at the outset. If we do that then nobody will get their panties in a wad over the second critical detail we overlook and everybody dies happy.

That's the funniest thing I've read in a while. You have a singularly acute sense of humour, coupled with a sufficiently big stick, you are assured in making your audience laugh! GA

Forget about the astroid. US and Russia (and all other countries) should try to avoid collisions of their sattellites.

_{(Hope human race will be existing till that time. The way we are destroying nature, hope all side effects of global warming will not irradicate human race.... yes I hope it will not be so early)}

The possibility of a big asteroid to hit the earth is a fact .

And if the asteroid is big enough , it can destroy almost completely the life in earth, as already happened in the past.

So, is not so bad to have a plan for this kind of event.

Several countries waste so much money in projects that are not really important .

Why couldn´t we spend money in a project that could avoid our destruction ?

Send money to me, and I'll hire some people to fight large rocks.

Thanks in advance.

Did you steal the script from Die Hard 5 - Die Hard Armaggedon?

"2030? 2036? In late 2012 Earth will be struck by a huge Mayan calendar that has been out there threatening to destroy Earth ever since the advent of New Age publishing."

Nobody gets this right. The real problem is that there is an actual calendar, carved into a giant stone tablet that is on a collision course with Earth. The Mayans had a sophisticated space program, equipped with ships carved from stone and at one time had a network of GPS rocks orbiting the earth. They eventually tired of these endeavors and settled down to a less costly program of human sacrifice. The "Calendar of Doom" was their last ditch effort to implement this program.

well... actually, there was a stone spaceship... but they weren't called mayans... although the mayans learned from them. they were called Nefilim.

from Baalbek. where the secondary spaceport was. The primary one was nuked in Sinai.. (thus the story of Sodom & Gomorroh... Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of ... not salt.. Vapour)