Killing an Asteroid with Another Asteroid; is it possible?

By: Lance Winslow
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:26:30
Print this article | Tell a friend | For publisher | Social Bookmarking
Rating:
 

Is it possible to kill an asteroid using another asteroid, which is already in space? Of course it should be possible from the physics standpoint and anyone who is ever played pool in a pool hall knows this to be a fact. Can we rely on human scientists to figure out a way and proper trajectories to actually kill an asteroid using another asteroid in space?

We know that planet Earth has been hit previously by large asteroids, meteors and Comets and we also know that other planets in our solar system have also been hit and thus it is only a matter of time until the Earth will be hit again. It is not a matter of if, but when and it is not only going to happen to once in our far off future.

Consider one of these many near Earth objects hitting the Earth in 2036, as we know there is a near Earth object, which will come very close to the Earth during that year. 2036 is not that far away and it makes sense that we should do something about it and be ready. But is killing an asteroid with another asteroid something we should be looking into?

Well, it just so happens that some scientists are and they believe they have the answer all figured out? Do you think it will actually work? This is a question that many people are now asking and perhaps a question you'll consider in 2006. This might just be the ticket to saving out Planet.

Lance Winslow

Article source: Expert Articles

Most Recent Articles in Future Concepts category

  • Nursing Degrees Online - Registered - By: Parmod Bansal
    Registered Nursing (RN) Jobs offer good money, the chance to make a difference in people's lives, and flexible hours. This rewarding career isn't easy and does require quite a bit of school, but you can study in a variety of different programs that offer you the flexibility to pursue your dream of becoming a registered nurse.
  • How to Find Lost Objects or People Using Radionics - By: Don Paris
    Have you ever lost something? I’m sure you have. It can be so infuriating!
  • Clearing Negativity From Spaces Using Radionics - By: Don Paris
    Have you ever walked into a house or room that “felt” really bad, or gave you the creeps? The space had nothing obviously wrong but you just couldn’t wait to leave? You may have picked up on the “bad vibes” or subtle negative energies in that space.
  • The Time is Ripe to Replace the UNO With a United Planetary Organization - By: Shriram Sharma
    “That time has come when discrimination with reference to communities, social status, gender and nations, will come to an end. Entire world humanity will live like brothers and sisters.”- ARTHUR CHARLES CLARK“If in a particular country, if one or two court cases are fought, people will be amazed as to whether there is any individual who is full of hatred, cunningness and enmity.
  • Freedom And Education 2 - By: Bill Ellis
    BE: Since my mindset is on alternatives-to-education I'll take "Learning & Freedom" as my topic for this forum and avoid the oxymoron of the other. This gives me two learning/freedom threads, to develop one is the freedom-to-learn ; the other is learning-to-be free.FREEDOM TO LEARNFreedom to learn has been a topic of a long list of critics of education including Froebel, Goodman, Illich, Holt, Friere and others.
  • Freedom And Education - Bill Ellis's Openting Statement For A Forum - By: Bill Ellis
    From: tranet@rangeley.orgSubject: Opening Statement by Bill EllisDate: 02, January 1970 9:28:45 AM EST I start my input where I left off in my input to the forum on Education and Democracy. My concern then, and now, is that our terms are contradictory.
  • Smart Cards and Access Control - A Look Into the Not Too Distant Future - By: Roy Stephenson
    Highly popular in Europe and Asia, smart cards are making a strong impact in America.Originally requiring contact with the reader in order to transfer information, manufacturers have begun building proximity, non-contact type cards that transfer bi-directional data utilizing RFID technology.By encoding the cards and the readers with 64-bit encrypted "keys", manufacturers are able to provide highly secure credentials for access and simultaneously open up a whole new world of possible applications for proximity cards.
  • A Net-Centric Future and the Future of IT - By: Lance Winslow
    Many people such as science fiction writers and futurists talk about the future of information technologies. In these futures we often hear talk about the war between humans and machines. Many people such as conspiracy theorists are worried about the future of IT or information technologies and they say that say that soon information technologies will be running the world using artificially intelligent brains.
  • Delays in Innovation Initiatives Considered - By: Lance Winslow
    Many times we hear of great new initiatives being sponsored and feel we are rounding a corner and looking towards a bright new future, yet eventually we see that things are not moving and we feel it is only hype and get frustrated. Sometimes delays in innovation are caused in the marketplace by competitive and political barriers.Often, there is a reason for this and that is because some innovation is so disruptive that it can cause instant chaos in a given industry or get in the way that things are currently done.
  • Use Super Computers to Locate Super Humans - By: Lance Winslow
    Can we use super computers to scour databases to find those amongst us who are super humans or what I call human plus? There are many people in the world and in the United States, who can help mankind solve all its problems and it makes sense that we find these super humans who can help us run our civilization better. We should use the supercomputers to find them faster and look for anomalies in the overall population.