Europe considers asteroid shield

[JRFrancisco20088]

In a hundred thousand years? How is that our problem?

[Gronkor]

@brenda30490 I'd rather say this asteroid is God's way of testing the power of our technological know-how.

[chrisbartley88]

why not plant a nueclar bomb on it and wait untill its seriously far away til it explodes then we're safer lol

[TheCombineify]

@brenda30490 HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[comactortony]

5 million? thats all? AN ASTEROID SHIELD!! & thats their budget? what is it, a giant mosquito net?

[Vengeant1]

I got a idea, HAARP the bitch. Deathray is the only way ;).

[MrTerry428]

the one you need to worry about is Asteroid 2010 KK37 is going to be very very close and it could hit may 19th 2012 have a nice day

[damosapian]

just find its resonant frequency then pump it with the same frequnecy at mutiples the amplitude and no more asteroid

[tanio12]

@damosapian

well i just witnessed a fireball over my house and i gotta funky feeling that was just the prelude to bigger things that are to come.

[videofan88]

i seen one too last night

[111bigtrucks]

@damosapian exactly tesla ; )

[boriscartman]

2056!!!! I´ll be buried 6 feet under by then!

[123immyself]

@boriscartman oh okay..and you dont have kids and wont have any grandchildren by then ? at this time i will be 76.....and im sure i will have great grandchildren too....

[Roswell01Area51]

This is the real threat to our planet. Not the 21 December 2012 bullshit.

[deshadower]

@Roswell01Area51 We'll see after 21st December, the end of reincarnation cycle, comes. There's no "threat", there's no "doomsdays" at all. Only possibilities and borders to cross.

[Ghostx510xx]

we will step into a age were we learn the truth not die

[kommireddypavan]

basically they r making anti icbm etc shield

[kommireddypavan]

@jojo1ukuk dude it doesnt save us from asteroids.it saves us from solar winds.get educated.

[MrDestruction25]

5 million for a project to protect the earth? man some billinares spend that kind of money on bets,what a disgrace.

[bballadante]

@MrDestruction25 Some not-so-rich rappers spend that kind of money on bets.

[xxtruthbetoldx]

Throw Israel at it

[kanserstyx]

nuke it pls :)

[smpowned]

i wish this hits earth and all of you die hahaha

[xxtruthbetoldx]

@smpowned the feeling is mutual

[aliensupremacy2]

is it just me or am i the only one who noticed that whenever the government starts these massive projects people say its a waste of tax payer money just to sound smart like jesus people shut the fuck up you have no problem with the government spending trillions of dollars for wars but when its something actually important you say its a waste of money i swear some people dont even think before they type

[meltingEyeballs]

@aliensupremacy2 You're worst than a retard.

[ShaktipatSeer2]

Please destroy this terrible species

[ThePayola123]

Maybe if we politely asked Eros not to get too close to Gaia.

With a name like Eros, one hopes it changes shape to a fully erect Phallus, before 'penetrating' earth and 'sowing the seeds' of destruction.

[jojo1ukuk]

the earth has already have shields guys. its called earth mangentic shields.

[jojo1ukuk]

asteroid shield funny as hell. i thought the so called failed eu was bankrupt.

saving the planet plz. asteriod shield is just another weapon.

[GMasis001]

jesus christ, humans are retards. Seriously, 100000 years.

[MrGangaheaD88]

Captain American here blew the landing by 26 miles! How the hell do you know that? Because I'm a genius.

[meltingEyeballs]

@MrGangaheaD88 Who's that on your wallpaper?

[MrGangaheaD88]

@meltingEyeballs prime minister of the uk David Cameron. :O)

[meltingEyeballs]

@MrGangaheaD88 lol, I like that.

[Kaandorpius]

Hold on...

There's an asteroid coming in more then a 100.000 years, and we gotta put up money NOW, while every economy is going to shits?!

Some fucking asteroid is the least of my worries, what a bunch of fruitcakes.

[Dubwise78]

F*ck me, are they actually thinking of spending money on something that could save mankind, rather than destroying us all? Statistically, it will happen one day, so why not prepare, develop defenses. Probably cheaper to get Bruce Willis out of retirement mind, or clone him for future emergencies.

[albanianmario]

nuke that commie asteroid!!!

[TheLadyZooZoo]

I say nuke the son of a bitch!

[icebrow]

Useless 2012 fears

[kingx989]

Is it just me or is youtube monitoring EVERY keystroke????? I am starting to hate youtube for that because I cannot finish a sentence without it glitching. FUCK YOUTUBE!!!

[Kaandorpius]

@kingx989

Yes, they use some grammar correction system wich can also relay marked words to a certain system that can pinpoint and track people's online behaviour. You know, just in case their "terrorists".

I already started hating YouTube along time ago, lol.

[kingx989]

Gravity? It's like a bug trying to deflect my truck while going 70mph. Just windshield juice.

[Uhmu45]

@kingx989 Space is vacuum, without friction even a small force can make a big difference over some period of time. All we need to do is to change its trajectory a bit, so it would not hit us.

[94kricco]

Do it in "Bruce Willis style" =D hehe

[Kryptonian250]

How does the U.S. oops I mean EU have that kind of money?

[hoosierhiver]

or it could just be a pork barrel project for the military/aerospace industry.

[Ningizza]

The effect of the poison of lobbyist!

[lightchild7777]

people pan ..God laughs ... x

[TheDisneylover23]

How idiotic is this. Yeah, they have 100,000 years before it ever becomes a threat. 70 times as far away as the moon, yeah big threat worthy of wasting 5 million!

[sloshady]

EU is becoming US! Funny, stupid, paranoid... ://

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

BY the way, we have a pretty decent asteroid shield. It's called 'the Moon'. Just look at it.

[brandonluco]

"In more then a 100 thousand years" Haha the human race wont be around till then! Most likely we will colonise some other planet or be wiped out by a natural disaster I doubt we will still be living on this planet. But I do agree in case of a random asteroid that would be considered a threat that we should invest in some sort of technology that would lessen the risk. Just leave the asteroid alone and we will be fine.

[HamTheDog]

does it have to be a nuke?? high explosives would probably work to knock it off course and not break it up...just saying..

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

Yea, let's nuke an asteroid. That way, if we fail to blow it up, we'll have not only asteroid impact, but nuclear asteroid impact. What a great fucking idea!

We are good at blowing up stuff. We're less good at predicting what happens after we blow stuff up. So let's not nuke an asteroid. Please.

[SilverlonewolfX]

100,000 years.... I think we have plenty of time to plan and deal with it in the future.... I hope the receipt is still valid, cause that money could go for feeding starving homeless children, boosting jobs and/or helping people.

~Your average American

[theeastwatch]

I've already seen ALL of these movies... Come on man, I need some new plot lines!

-TEW

[MsMecagoen10]

let the fucking asteroid alone >.< if they try to shoot it maybe instead of getting to another course it will come here to earth

[nomainreason]

@MsMecagoen10 yes.. because math is hard for some people.. Let's just hope math is a strong point of those in charge of this. :) </sarcasm/

[meltingEyeballs]

Another excuse for NATO's missile "shield"(umbrella) expansion, wasting tax payers' money & risking arms race & WW3.

[mrjpvoid]

@meltingEyeballs Of course! Don't they understand that anything to do with a rocket and possible explosions which relate to saving our hairy asses from possible asteroid collision which are obviously just fake excuses be treated by every living thing on this planet as a possible WW3 declaration against all the other countries? How dare they!

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs R&D money is never wasted :)

[meltingEyeballs]

@Uhmu45 You fail to consider the case when costs outweigh results which could be indefinitely & negatively large or intangible/irreversible.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs Base science almost never pays of in the short and medium turn. LHC cost 7 billion usd just to find out what gravity is. This project is cheap as hell and it actually has a practical use.

[meltingEyeballs]

@Uhmu45 You fail to understand my comments. The research from such asteroid shield can be weaponized & potentially destroy us all, way before we even get to smell the asteroid. There is a much higher chance to get kill by your fellow earthlings than be hit by an asteroid which is tens of thousands of years away. There must be an elegant way to resolve this rather by the sheer brute force "shield" & we've still plenty of time to find out.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs Almost anything can be weaponized. That said, a small ship with tiny engines to gravity pull the asteroid is a threat and potential weapon how? Its a low cost high reward project. I fail to see the problem.

[meltingEyeballs]

@Uhmu45 Any mere weapon is fine but if that pose an immediate threat to the entire mankind, it's will be of a different scale. What you see is only in plain monetary form. You fail to see the bigger intangible political consequences that might spark another dangerous arms race. We have nukes on earth & then we have them in space. Can mankind really prevail this way? Advocates of such research really makes Earth more dangerous than that innocent asteroid.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs You do understand that there is no need to bring nukes into space to destroy earth. And on the science side, using nukes on asteroids is bad options because one can make 5 smaller asteroids whos trajectory we dont know. The best options are to slam a satellite into the asteroid or gravity pull it. And last but not least, we have near misses whit rocks that could do considerable damage when they would hit us, all the time.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs This project would not be about that asteroid. Big ones like that are rare to hit us. Smaller ones, 20-30 m are the real danger(tunguska was 10-15m but the damage was extensive). If they reach the surface they are like small nukes. There are lots of them out there. 5 million usd spent on deflecting rocks like that is money well spent imao.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs Read my comment again ;)

[meltingEyeballs]

@Uhmu45 After the exchanges, your comments are really worthless. Circular arguments don't make you right. They make you look stupid.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs Explain.

[meltingEyeballs]

@Uhmu45 Try removing that goggles, maybe you can breathe better & get more oxygen in your brain.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs Instead of explaining what you mean you go to insults. Interesting.

[meltingEyeballs]

@Uhmu45 Everything I wrote is self explanatory. If you still have trouble understanding, that only proves that I'm right(that the so called "insults" are really facts.). Go get an education, get a life & stop trolling.

[Uhmu45]

@meltingEyeballs I dont have problems understanding what you said just why it is relevant. You claim that this could be used as a weapon platform, but everything indicates that its not. Just the cost should be the first hint, a potential weapon in space would a 100 billion project. So explain why are my arguments circular. There are 100 of smaller asteroids out there that could hit us in the next 10-15 generations. 5 million usd for a actual threat is very cost effective.

[kurtilein3]

@meltingEyeballs

This has nothing to do with the missile defense shield. A missile defense shield works suborbital or in low earth orbit, with response times of minutes or hours. In asteroid defense, you have response times of anywhere between 2 and 10 years, and you are working in deep space. You cannot stop missiles with a system that takes years to boot up. And you cannot stop an asteroid 6 hours before it hits.

[meltingEyeballs]

@kurtilein3 Wow, lots of information, nothing relevant, complete spam.

[krazzed101]

@meltingEyeballs you're an idiot, go away troll

[meltingEyeballs]

@krazzed101 As you name suggest, you must be crazy, take your meds.

[TooLF8th]

Suuure, and they would happily inform the public of an possible event. Mmmmmhm.

This is BS. Probably an excuse to put weapons in space, to further the NWO agenda.

This plan has been known since at least the 1960`s.

My opinion anywayz ;)

Peace&Love-  -Ron Paul 2012

[nomainreason]

@TooLF8th soo.. if you look at the moon you'll see little circles (those are craters) <- proof that asteroids DO in fact "fly" towards planets, satelites, etc. let's say that you'd be in charge.. what would you do? not try every possible chance of avoiding it? it's one of the options.. not the only one.

I also am wondering how would planet Earth avoid such dangers from space without some authorities in that matter.. or a system that provides such authorities. AnarchyEarth would be fucked right?

[TooLF8th]

@nomainreason Well, I would start by having a system that informed the people on the real threats. Further, I would open for a international cooperation on going into space, with a non military approach, giving people the position to work together towards visiting mars, the moon and other moons/planets, not focusing on the military aspect.

And most important, I would make sure the globalist powers today had no power on this issues. =)

[Nightwalking12]

so the eros have nukes...... wow

[XxMzt4RVLCNRYxX]

fuckin steroids

[BNPpatriot]

I misread the title..I thought it said 'Europe considers steroid shield'...would've been more constructive.

[PrimeConsciousness]

In 100,000 years there will only be a monorace that is entirely emotionless, computerized and lives in skyscraper research prisons. I'm not sure why anyone gives a flying fuck about such transcended beings, even though they are the future humanity. I say let them all eat space rock in 100,000 years those transhuman Borg turds!

[MrGangaheaD88]

I don't mean to be the materialistic weasel of this group, but do you think we'll get hazard pay out of this? <<armageddon.

[o0POSH0o]

watch?v=TmWsSp_41eM

[fishbowl4202]

SEND A TEAM ON SPACE SHUTTLES WITH A COOL JEEP WITH GATLING GUNS ON IT AND SOME BIG DRILLS AND NUKES!

[excitedsynapses]

@fishbowl4202 I know just the people for the job, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck!

[caporalchef4]

@fishbowl4202 Yeah, I remember this one. It's where the, uh, the coyote sat his ass down in a slingshot then he strapped himself to an Acme rocket. ;-)