Asteroid 2012 DA14 Close Enough to Smash Satellites in Orbit on February 15, 2013 - Added a few VIDEOS

Yepp, think positive now, let's make it happen!

Wall Street? lol

Nothing will happen.

As always.

Why is it always through some stroke of luck that these always seem to miss us?

Many, many hit us...they are just smaller and burn up entering the atmosphere.

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... those in the "technical" countries will be lost ...
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... do any of these affect the internet? ...
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... then it's world-wide ...
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... commerce, banking, manufacturing ...
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... interesting! ... ! ...
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How many working satelites are there for the moment?

Doom is doomed...?

Yes, if its "out there" its not gonna happen

GLP effect changed its trajectory. Gonna miss us by a long shot now.

Suggested pin ! :bumps:

not really

just proves what a bunch of gobshites they ALL are

We sure don't need any more smashed
satellites making more space junk.
Andy Griffith did a TV series named
Salvage 1 back in 1979 about a junk
dealer who cleaned up all the space junk.

Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) owns the Jettison Scrap and Salvage Company, and is a specialist in reclaiming trash and junk in order to sell that as scrap. His dream is to recover equipment left on the moon during Apollo Program missions. He invites former astronaut Addison "Skip" Carmichael (Joel Higgins) and NASA fuel expert Melanie "Mel" Slozar (Trish Stewart) to assist him in this effort. He builds a spaceship dubbed Vulture completely made of reclaimed salvage and powered by a chemical called monohydrazine. The main body of Vulture is composed of a Texaco gasoline Semi-trailer with cement mixer as the capsule. This is augmented with three shorter rocket boosters placed 120 degrees around the main tank.

Noted science fiction author Isaac Asimov served as the show's scientific adviser.

Uhoh, Asimov, the modern day prophet.

Don't have the link handy... but there is an amazing amount of junk in inner space..

Yep. Enough that it is a growing concern. They have projects in development trying to figure out the best way to handle the 'junk' floating around up there.

Damn,...I remember that as a made for TV movie, very cool. In such a relativity short time since it aired, I have heard a news piece recently on the radio where a person actually has a company that will harvest asteroids,...space junk can not be far behind.



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Awesome

All kinds of things rely on satellites now.

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cool

famous last words

Has it passed yet

How small of an object in the cloud does it take to impair or destroy a satellite? The size of a nickel?

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Is there a chance that the internet will be shutdown if it happens to collide with the sats?

If it does, who will benefit from it?