NASA warns two asteroids hurtling closer to Earth than the MOON in 20,000mph

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  1. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There are many similarities between our planet and Mars, visually and in composition. This includes an atmosphere that you claimed does not exist so I gave you a video to change the subject with in order to avoid embarrassment.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I suggest that the only similarity between our planet and Mars is they're spherical.
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trajectories are computed very carefully and thrusters used for small changes in the path when required. Understand these probes have many hours/days/months to correct course in their years/decades long missions and take days to communicate with Earth depending on distance. New Horizons was over 9 hours away at the speed of light when is flew past Pluto.
     
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    Nonnie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    NASA maths geeks I'd imagine.
     
  5. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your suggestion is noted and dismissed as the uninformed waste of server space it very clearly is.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If anyone believes that drivel they'll believe anything.
     
  7. Nonnie

    Nonnie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    But at the end of the day, an asteroid hitting or missing doesn't pay my mortgage. If it hits, I hope it wipes out China, then we might start importing decent goods.
     
  8. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    With very powerful computers. You could do with a bit of geekdom (also referred to as intelligence).
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your purposeful ignorance is annoyingly pathetic. I grow bored with trying to provide data to enlighten you just to watch you wander further into the darkness of your ever shrinking mind.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well you believe it and I don't, and ne'er the twain shall meet.
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yup....perhaps someday you will find the time to read a link or two if you can remember.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Look, do you seriously expect me to believe the vid you posted was filmed on Mars? I might be 'ignorant'; but I'm not a gullible child.
     
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    It's basic physics from the seventeenth century - Google Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Do you believe that vid was filmed on Mars?
     
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    Intelligence would suggest that learning on how to calculate the path of an asteroid or a probe past a planet would not benefit me in my job in the construction industry.
     
  16. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Actually....I have learned not to expect much of ANYTHING from you, especially where science, technology, reality or pretty much all complex topics come in to play. I do not even expect you to READ DATA because it is unlikely you will understand or accept such simple realities, preferring to dwell in your personal ignorance and imagined conspiracy world instead.
     
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    Nonnie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    His laws are current based on our current level of scientific knowledge. I thought the Em Drive broke them.
     
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  18. tecoyah

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    Actually that is knowledge and training....intellect involves more cerebral pursuits.
     
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    *Cough*
     
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    That might also explain why there is so much dark matter around.
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    To think on Dark Matter requires functional Gray Matter.
     
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    Functional Gray Matter also requires an Open Mind to grasp the concept of Dark Matter.
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That goes without saying, but I am glad you said it:)
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The unseen gravitational effect is interesting but I do not think it will be explained with a new form of matter...more likely seems to be a misunderstanding or lack of understanding basic gravity dynamics....basically an issue with current physics in general. We shall eventually see.

    Perhaps Dark matter and Dark energy are the same thing.
     
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    I suspect that E=MC2 applies to Dark matter/energy just as it does to tangible matter/energy.
     

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