Asteroid alert

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327271.300

Earth will one day face an asteroid collision - but can we do anything about it?

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[AsssModeUsss]

En 1997 ou 1998, je ne me souviens plus très bien, désolé, nous avons été frolé par un objet faisant 10 terrain de football à 100 000 kms de la terre, ce qui est très peu ! on ne s'en est aperçu que trois jours plus tard...Nous avons eus beaucoup de chance.

[AsssModeUsss]

1) Un filet tendu entres plusieurs fusées qui controle la trajectoire mais tout dépend de la taille de l'astéroide^^ ...

2) Un canon mu par un accélérateur à particule servant à réduire la masse de l'astéroide (voir chapitre modification de la masse d'une naine blanche) puis à dévier l'astéroide par des robots-fusées est ma solution préférée.^^

[TheEPIICxGAMING]

@ObliviuxProductions thats not the point there saying that in the year 2880 it could hit between 1-300 days

[ObliviuxProductions]

@EmperorofCartoons

So its an outcome within an outcome? What the. Inception.

[EmperorofCartoons]

@ObliviuxProductions the other 299 outcomes are it not hitting Earth. If it had a 50/50 chance, that means they ran a simulation twice and it hit Earth once and missed once. This means they ran a simulation approx 300 times and it had 1 hit.

[Procrasterbationable]

Well, like the video said, it was only car sized. It doesn't take a degree to figure out that 90% of it would burn up in the atmosphere.

[TheDallasDragon]

so should i worry ? move to mexico or somewhere where is safe ? what to do ??

[YearZer02022]

@ObliviuxProductions

Apparently you do not understand the concept of 1/300, it simply means that 1 out of 300 passes it would hit, lets say this whole thing is a theoretical simulation, they run the test 300 times, it hits once, even the slightest gravity change can mean it hits or misses, that is where the 300 comes into play. That is all.

[ObliviuxProductions]

@YearZer02022

With it's current trajectory? How would you divide that into 300 passes? Please explain

[YearZer02022]

@ObliviuxProductions

50/50 chance is wrong, the 1/300 means that 1 out of 300 passes with its current trajectory it would hit earth, obviously you failed math.