Ultra Extreme Super Extra Long Shot

[GotRDid]

 

[D Coots]

Wondering when the asteroid they bumped will accidentally hit the earth?

 

[GotRDid]

 

[M-61]

Wondering when the asteroid they bumped will accidentally hit the earth?

Or hits something that hits something that hits earth? Talk about playing pool blindfolded!

 

[JMayo]

The YouTube of that was really cool

 

[ronsatspokane]

A whole new level of coriolis effect.

 

[jackieschmidt]

Or hits something that hits something that hits earth? Talk about playing pool blindfolded!

A million to one.
why?
Space is in fact rather empty.
A good example is the Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. When you see movies such as Star Wars showing a space vehicle going through an asteroid belt, they are always weaving, turning and dodging huge chunks of rock.

The fact is, you could fly right through the Adtroid Belt without much fear of hitting anything, because in reality, though there may be hundreds of thousands of asteroids making up the belt, they are all actually an aaverage distance of 600,000 miles from each other.
That is over 2 1/2 times the distance between the Earth and the moon.

 

[M-61]

A million to one.
why?
Space is in fact rather empty.
A good example is the Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. When you see movies such as Star Wars showing a space vehicle going through an asteroid belt, they are always weaving, turning and dodging huge chunks of rock.

The fact is, you could fly right through the Adtroid Belt without much fear of hitting anything, because in reality, though there may be hundreds of thousands of asteroids making up the belt, they are all actually an aaverage distance of 600,000 miles from each other.
That is over 2 1/2 times the distance between the Earth and the moon.

Interesting and well stated.
I wandered off my complaint.
MONEY and where it’s spent.

 

[PRR1957]

There's a whole Flat Earth Society.

I know, and I will poke fun at them every chance I get. Their motto is “With members around the World”.

 

[CJ6]

You know they were reading all you guys drooling over that dude who landed one after 69 shots and thought; bitch, please... watch this $#it

Well.... NASA has better bullets.
Have they said what the deflection angle was yet ?

 

[Sandstorm]

Somebodys gonna be pissed off when it hits them instead on another rock out there in the cosmos.
Damnn earthlings screwin around again.....lol

 

[CJ6]

Or....It could hit a bigger rock and send that to Earth....HMMM.

 

[WSnyder]

There's a whole Flat Earth Society.

And they are willing to die for it! Mad Mike "Lawn Dart" Hughes. Hit full screen button for full value!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1231336002175717376

 

[ronsatspokane]

And they are willing to die for it! Mad Mike "Lawn Dart" Hughes. Hit full screen button for full value!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1231336002175717376

Darwin wins again.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

I take it the parachute wasn't suppose to stay behind on take off

 

[chop house]

The fact is, you could fly right through the Adtroid Belt without much fear of hitting anything, because in reality, though there may be hundreds of thousands of asteroids making up the belt, they are all actually an aaverage distance of 600,000 miles from each other.

"... yet with my luck..." hahaha

just kidding. i've been blessed.

 

[Brians356]

See, it really is all about wind, after all.

Actually probably is, to a small extent - solar wind. On a space trip that long it's likely a factor. NASA has actually unfurled a large foil sail from a spaceship to demonstrate solar wind propulsion. Solar wind affects orbital decay. Fun stuff. There was a magazine in the '60s, Boy's Life, that ran a fantasy adventure series about solar windjammers traveling around out there. It had a chess column written by young Bobby Fisher. Sure wish I'd kept some of those magazines.
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[markT]

Wander is they could land a rocket with guidance and oh say maybe steer it to a “certain lab?”

 

[PRR1957]

Well.... NASA has better bullets.
Have they said what the deflection angle was yet ?

The small moonlet that was impacted orbiting the larger asteroid will be studied with ground based telescopes for quite a while to gauge the change in the moonlet’s orbit. The prediction is the orbit will be reduced. This should also change the trajectory of the asteroid.

 

[PRR1957]

Darwin wins again.

I suspect the “astronut” was conscious during his plummet back too the ground with just enough time to realize that he very much miscalculation a whole lot engineering concepts.

Apparently this guy never learned of Evel Knievel’s attempt with a steam powered rocket which his parachute deployed unexpectedly early which ended in old Evel taking a swim in the Snake River.