The chinese flirt wih disaster

[furie]

Last week Chinese scientists wanted to divert an asteroid away from Earth. This week, they want to pull one into orbit around the Earth. (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/chinese-scientists-hatch-plan-pull-asteroid-orbit-around-earth?cmp=tw)

[StanUpshaw]

Evil yellow people slinging deadly space rocks at me?

Consider my fear mongered!

[Judge Smails]

The idea isn’t simply to flirt with cataclysmic danger, but to bring a small object (they suggest a 10-meter object called 2008EA9 that will pass nearby in 2049) into a loop around the Earth so we can study it closely for a few years. If we can get the art of capturing asteroids orbitally down to a science, we could use it to temporarily make asteroids into Earth-bound satellites (orbiting at about twice the distance of the moon), mine them for minerals, and then send them on their ways.


Souds like a good idea to me and the kind of stuff we should be doing and thinking up.

[KnoxHarrington]

I wish that Chinese chick I just saw at the store today would have flirted with me.

[keithy_19]

I wish that Chinese chick I just saw at the store today would have flirted with me.

Keep your chin up, sport.

[sailor]

bop mm bop bop yeah

[A.J.]

Evil yellow people slinging deadly space rocks at me?

Consider my fear mongered!

Or Mongoled.

[Earlshog]

Souds like a good idea to me and the kind of stuff we should be doing and thinking up.

Socialist hippie!

[Furtherman]

Great idea. What could possibly go wrong?

[StanUpshaw]

Great idea. What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing.

hth

[razorboy]

In China they pronounce it Morry Hatchet.

[Crash]

hth

No.

No it doesn't.

Actually, as long as they don't use robot monkeys, this should all end fine.

I feel quite confident.

[furie]

http://jbabbcomics.com/comics/2010-08-23-dinosaurs-and-meteors.jpg

[Earlshog]

I thought this thread was going to be about the sales of the Dodgers

[cougarjake13]

I thought this thread was going to be about the sales of the Dodgers

me as well