Comments on: What Can We Do About Big Rocks From Space?

By: Randy Rieland

Randy Rieland — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:28:40 +0000

Thank you, Robert!

By: Robert Ryder

Robert Ryder — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:12:38 +0000

Thank you for great information about this subject. I am worried that others are not as concerned about this. If the meteorite that exploded over Russia had hit New York or Las Veags, there would be a lot more being done.

Robert Ryder
Las Vegas

By: Lance Steele

Lance Steele — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:31:58 +0000

How about constructing a giant slingshot and launching congressmen, senators, and bureaucrats into space towards the threatening asteroids or comets. Their massive volumes of hot air and mindless, meaningless rhetoric should cause those dangerous objects to veer away from earth in no time.

By: Alan Janak

Alan Janak — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:36:48 +0000

The best solution would be to launch a small rocket that could attach/imbed itself to the space rock and fire a thruster to push it off course. Similar to the #2 ramming speed, but a thruster might have more effect if needed, and less risk of breaking the rock apart.

By: abinico warez

abinico warez — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:23:44 +0000

Were a really heavy duty helmet.

By: yaridanjo

yaridanjo — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:18:50 +0000

Work fast!

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By: DAWK

DAWK — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:08:00 +0000

Herez a few ideas; why not take large pieces of leather and thread,along with a big sewing machine and some unemployed/baseball glove makers,who will do anything-for-a-job,and sew-up a large,forty foot, baseball gloves,in space.folks could make this a ‘sport’,viewed on pay TV,which would help pay for the project.if this works, other gloves could be made for smaller rocks. then, continue to position the gloves to catch the rock,on a bungee,anchored to another large rock,orbit-controlled by us,so when the attacking rock gets caught,it stretches the bungee cord,back and forth,finally slowing the rock to a halt.
then,keep all these captured rocks in space,orbiting around earth with more gloves and bungees,until the planet is covered. we could also mine the bungee caught rocks for money enough to pay for everything.
do this as a cartoon animation-first,to see if it really will work……ba-de-ba-de-ah…the-the-thats all folks!!

By: scott

scott — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:43:01 +0000

We shouldn’t do anything. We should continue to cut all funding to physics and astronomy, while glutting the market with immigrants working cheaply on their H1 STEM Visas. This will ensure that Americans no longer have incentives to study these things. We can then spend the rest of our waning military and financial power on all the over seas talent we have trained to do all our work and innovation for us. There was a time when %40 of all scientists were in the US. Now its less than 15% and the brilliance of our elected officials is to simply import them rather than giving actual incentives to the industry that would help us grow our own.