DISASTER Why Is NASA Working So Hard To Learn How To Defend The Earth From Giant Asteroids?
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Squib
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Wasn't there a rumor that Debeers, the diamond merchants, bought a small meteorite that’s was partly diamond…so as to not see the diamond market collapse?
Meteorite landed in Siberia or something?
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
My guess?
Because it's really only a matter of time until one of those space rocks hits and "they" don't want to be kings of a blasted wasteland.
Because it's really only a matter of time until one of those space rocks hits and "they" don't want to be kings of a blasted wasteland.
Doc1
Has No Life - Lives on TB
DeBeers and the Russians control most of the diamond market. When I was in southern Africa many years ago, there were vast stretches of beach in Namibia that were off limits, guarded and controlled by DeBeers. I assume the same is the case today.
Diamonds were so common on these beaches that a person casually strolling near the waterline could pick up a pocketful of them without trying too hard.
The diamond market is far more controlled than the precious metals markets and the prices are highly inflated. This is the main reason I've never been interested in getting involved with diamonds. Also, despite the high retail prices charged for jewelry containing small diamonds, the diamonds themselves are basically worthless.
Don't try to explain this to someone trying to sell their diamond-encrusted ring, though! They'll be convinced you're trying to rip them off. I offered to buy a large ring for metal value from a man years ago and explained that I didn't want the diamonds at any price and would in fact deduct the weight of them from the metal. He was not happy. I offered to remove the diamonds and put them into a little envelope. Then he would be free to try to sell them to a jeweler.
I did this and he returned sometime later, angry that no jewelers were willing to give him anything for the little diamonds.
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Doc
Diamonds were so common on these beaches that a person casually strolling near the waterline could pick up a pocketful of them without trying too hard.
The diamond market is far more controlled than the precious metals markets and the prices are highly inflated. This is the main reason I've never been interested in getting involved with diamonds. Also, despite the high retail prices charged for jewelry containing small diamonds, the diamonds themselves are basically worthless.
Don't try to explain this to someone trying to sell their diamond-encrusted ring, though! They'll be convinced you're trying to rip them off. I offered to buy a large ring for metal value from a man years ago and explained that I didn't want the diamonds at any price and would in fact deduct the weight of them from the metal. He was not happy. I offered to remove the diamonds and put them into a little envelope. Then he would be free to try to sell them to a jeweler.
I did this and he returned sometime later, angry that no jewelers were willing to give him anything for the little diamonds.
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Doc
vector7
Dot Collector
More Flashbacks: Continued...
OBAMA slashed the entire NASA budget except for his 'outreach to MUSLIMS ONLY'
And you thought the Regime had backpedaled on this outrageous idea? Think again. Using your tax dollars, Obama is inviting Muslims to U.S. Space Camps, even Muslims from enemy countries like Libya, home of the now set free Lockerbie bomber.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview with Al Jazeera that his “foremost” mission as director of the space agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. “[President Obama] wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said.
Nearly 50 future Libyan leaders (terrorists like Ghaddafi?) have trained as astronauts at the U.S. National Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp since 2009, and media coverage and a film of the students’ experiences have helped ease U.S.-Libya tensions and inspired other Muslim-majority nations to pursue the program. (Oh really? So why is the Lockerbie bomber not in jail?)
The Libyan Space Camp program, now in its second year, was developed through a unique relationship among the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, NASA, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan General People’s Committee for Foreign Liaison and the Libyan General People’s Committee for Education and Scientific Research. (Riiiight, and Libya is renowned for its scientific achievements)
The chronicles of the 24 participants in the 2009 Space Camp were documented and made into the film One Small Step, One Giant Leap. And hundreds of young Libyans have now applied to Space Camp.”The 2010 Libyan Space Camp, July 16–25, was followed August 1–6 by a Space Camp adventure for a dozen
Moroccan students.
The two student groups from North Africa joined other young people from around the world in Huntsville, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, to participate in simulated space shuttle missions, training simulators, rocket building and launches, scientific experiments and lectures on space exploration. They also met and received graduation certificates from four-time NASA shuttle commander Robert “Hoot” Gibson.
In August 2009, the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli sent the first group of
24 Libyan students, along with two teachers and a professional Libyan-American film crew that included two Libyan student interns, on their way to Huntsville.They were the first group from North Africa to attend Space Camp and only the second group from an Arab country since 1982, when Space Camp was founded to promote the study of math, science and technology, teamwork, decisionmaking and leadership.(So how many American kids don’t get to go now to make room for the Muslims?)
This year, 24 Libyan students aged 14–18 participated, traveling with the same Libyan-American film director, members of Al Shababiya Television, and a representative of the Libyan General People’s Committee for Education and Scientific Research.
In international and technical teams, the students were presented with challenges that included what to do with a damaged fuselage,
miscalibrated steering mechanisms and punctured air filtration systems. Together, they applied advanced principles of physics, chemistry and mathematics to solve some of the same problems experienced by U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station and during the historic Apollo 13 mission. (Just what they need to know. Maybe they can apply it in their bomb making school for American airplanes)
The students’ training has helped expand their educational and professional interests at home and abroad. Since attending Space Camp, one 2009 Libyan student participant is seeking a career in aeronautics and flight communications by studying at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Another received a full scholarship to Harvard University in Massachusetts.(One less scholarship for Americans)
Libya and Morocco plan Space Camp programs in summer 2011, Lawrence said, and U.S. officials in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt are seeking to establish programs. (I bet they are) AMERICA.gov H/T Creeping Sharia
$71M: Russia Triples Price to Fly U.S. Astronauts to Space Station
August 2, 2013
Russia will charge the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) $71 million to transport just one American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard its Soyuz spacecraft in 2016.
That’s more than triple the $22 million per seat the Russians charged in 2006, according to a July 8 audit report by NASA’s inspector general. (See NASA IG-13-019.pdf)
NASA Seeks Bidders To Demolish Shuttle Facilities, Storied Cape Hangar
September 2, 2013
While NASA has made some progress finding outside money to maintain surplus space shuttle infrastructure at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the historic launch center will inevitably shrink in the post-shuttle era, as an Aug. 23 solicitation for demolition services shows.
NASA’s Chief Confirms It: Without Russia, Space Station Lost
March 4, 2015
NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden acknowledged Wednesday there is no back-up plan to fly the International Space Station if Russia cuts off U.S. access to space.
"We would make an orderly evacuation," Bolden said during a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. Because both countries are dependent upon one another, the $140 billion station would be lost.
Long read...
Hijacked! How Obama and the Left Killed NASA: The journey from the Moon to radical activism
June 30, 2016 / CRC Staff
By Art Harman
Summary: American leadership in space exploration helped create and fuel the high-tech boom that led U.S. global competitiveness since the early 1960s. NASA returned to our national prosperity and national security far more than the investments we made in the agency. We beat the Soviets to the Moon and pioneered the way for many commercial ventures. NASA was preparing to take Americans back to the Moon and on to Mars—until President Obama took office and had a very different objective in mind.
~snip~
Conclusion
President Obama, John Holdren, Lori Garver, and James Hansen have succeeded in their apparent mission to convert NASA’s bold exploration and scientific mission into yet another left-wing propaganda-spewing agency. As House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) observed at a 2014 hearing, “there are 13 other agencies involved in climate-change research, but only one that is responsible for space exploration.”
~snip~
Hawkgirl_70
Veteran Member
My husband and I would fit right in with some Belters.
You can look us up on The Rocinante.
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Guy I know works on the only diamonds WORTH working. Works for {blsablah==redacted==}Black Oxide Company as a diamond cutter. He is cutting INDUSTRIAL cutting diamonds.
willowlady
Veteran Member
If have seen on some science programs what might contribute to the answer. As our solar systems proceeds it great rotation around the center of our galaxy, it moves up and down slightly through our arm (the milk way) of the galaxy. We are evidently entering a "thicker" area of the arm, and it is now far more likely that collisions
clear out in the Oort cloud will take place that could send showers of meteors inward, some in a collision course with earth. Best get prepared ahead of time. And funding, of course.
clear out in the Oort cloud will take place that could send showers of meteors inward, some in a collision course with earth. Best get prepared ahead of time. And funding, of course.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
And, all this time I thought NASSA was planning on mining the hemorrhoid belt around Uranus. I guess I never should have dropped my subscriptions to Popular Mechanics and Mad Magazine back in the 70's.
Walrus Whisperer
Hope in chains...
I've read Revelation, ones a coming.....
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
It depends on the type of diamond, there are some stone colors that are more rare, like the bright blues, otherwise they're as common as a grain of sand, but don't tell this to others cause they'll call you a liar. Give me a gorgeous sapphire any day of the week.
Remember a few years back when that meteorite overflew Russia and caused a bit of destruction. For a few moments Russia was alert in case it was a Nuke and they needed to reply with more Nukes.
Lets keep em that way.
I’m a ruby guy. The deep, rich ones.
Yeah...was going to say that NASA isn’t taking us back to the moon, or anywhere else anytime soon. They’ve got to justify those massive budgets in some manner. Realistically, we’ll get hit again. Probably not soon, but it will happen. That is our Earth’s history.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
You can prospect for them on the Fraiser River in British Columbia, they're literally laying all over the ground. The only the problem is they're located on very rocky, steep slopes along the river, so you need to be part goat to prospect there. I watch Dan Hurd on YT prospecting for all sorts of gemstones and gold along the Fraiser... I think he may be part mountain goat.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
PDW, if I could get a man lift in there, I’d go in a second… 
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
PDW, if I could get a man lift in there, I’d go in a second…
I hear yah, wish I had known about that place 20 years ago. I understand why Dan gave up his day job teaching science in the schools and took his family off grid! Totally understand. He supplements his income with prospecting, mining for gold, and turning slabs of stone into gorgeous cabochons, and his YT channel that's been monetized. He's a nice guy check out his videos sometime.
jward
passin' thru
mass and momentum - an irresistible force that meets another irresistible force. there isn't a deep underground bunker deep enough
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
ROFLOL!!!!
At last check, we are STILL (even with the last 10 years' worth of foolishness) at the $2.35 or $3.25 RETURNED for every dollar input into NASA.
Tristan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
If it's not worth trillions now, just give it a couple years.
Anyway, I think the reason NASA is studying this is due to the concept that it's not the odds, it's the potential outcome.
NASA Announces it Will Launch Spacecraft to ‘Nudge’ Asteroid Off Path From Hitting Earth | Gregg Jarrett
NASA made a startling announcement that it will be making an attempt to deflect an asteroid in space from hitting the Earth. The plan is to launch a
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NASA Announces it Will Launch Spacecraft to ‘Nudge’ Asteroid Off Path From Hitting Earth
BY JARRETT STAFF
OCTOBER 6, 2021
NASA made a startling announcement that it will be making an attempt to deflect an asteroid in space from hitting the Earth. The plan is to launch a spacecraft in late November to literally smash into “one of the two asteroids, known as Didymoon, at roughly 13,500mph on October 2, 2022” reports The Daily Mail.
“In doing so, it will change the speed of Didymoon a fraction of a percent, but it will be enough so NASA can measure its altered orbit.” The attempt with the spacecraft is known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. DART will be sent to the pair of asteroids, “the Didymos binary – at 1:20 a.m. EST on November 24 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.”
NASA considers anything that comes within 4.6 million miles of Earth and has more than a 460-foot diameter as “potentially hazardous.” In a statement, NASA said, “DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique, which involves sending one or more large, high-speed spacecraft into the path of an asteroid in space to change its motion.”
The Didymoon is 524 feet wide and orbits a larger space rock known as Didymos that is approximately 2,559 feet across. Didymoon came within 3.7 million miles of Earth in 2003. Project scientist for DART, Dr. Nancy Chabot previously told DailyMail.com “planetary defense is really about the present solar system and what are we going to do in the present.”
“DART is not the final answer but rather just the first important step if we needed to defend the Earth from an asteroid impact. Finding the asteroids that pose potential impact risks to Earth tracking them, and characterizing them are critically important to all planetary defense efforts.
dstraito
TB Fanatic
Because they were promised they would never have to pay taxes and they. would bring back 8-tracks!
rob0126
Veteran Member
That might pay off the national debt.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
New answer: someone hung a beach ball outside *pResident Puddingcup's window and he got scared.
Then there's the whole concept of asteroid mining. Thought I heard once that just one asteroid out in the Belt has sufficient iron deposits in it to remake every car that's ever been made on Earth.
Then there's the whole concept of asteroid mining. Thought I heard once that just one asteroid out in the Belt has sufficient iron deposits in it to remake every car that's ever been made on Earth.
Why Is NASA Working So Hard To Learn How To Defend The Earth From Giant Asteroids?
by Tyler Durden
7-9 minutes
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Did you know that NASA is going to send a spacecraft on a suicide mission in an attempt to change the trajectory of a massive space rock? The good news is that the space rock that NASA will be crashing this spacecraft into is not on a collision course with Earth. It is only a test. But why has NASA suddenly become so concerned with figuring out how to defend the Earth from giant asteroids? Could it be possible that there is something heading toward Earth in the future that they haven’t told us about yet?
According to NASA, there are more than 26,000 asteroids that pass near Earth, and more than 2,000 of them are classified as “potentially dangerous” asteroids.
Most of those “potentially dangerous” asteroids aren’t that large, but 158 of them do have a diameter of more than one kilometer.
If one of those monsters were to hit us, it would be a disaster of cataclysmic proportions.
Of course there are countless other space rocks that our scientists have not discovered yet, and those probably represent the greatest threat. Because if you don’t see a threat coming, you can’t get prepared for it in advance.
These days, NASA officials have become quite preoccupied by the threat that giant space rocks potentially pose, and we are being told that “scientists are at work on a plan to avoid the destruction of Earth by an errant asteroid”. The following comes from an article that was just published by the Boston Globe…
Personally, I think that this is something that NASA should definitely be focusing on, because the threat is very real.
Most people don’t realize this, but our planet is actually being pelted by space debris on a constant basis at this point. In fact, NASA says that we are being hit by very small objects “every day”…
Thankfully, the vast majority of the objects that we encounter are too small to do any damage.
But it is just a matter of time before a really big space rock comes along.
NASA officials like to give the impression that they have a really good idea of what is going on up there, but the truth is that our ability to detect large space rocks is still quite limited. In May, a “potentially hazardous” asteroid that came close to Earth was only discovered about a week before it arrived…
And late last year a fairly large asteroid was not discovered until it had already buzzed dangerously close to our planet…
So if a major threat is headed our way, we may or may not see it coming in advance.
If we do have advance warning that a huge asteroid is coming, obviously we would want to try to do something about it. With such a scenario in mind, NASA will soon be crashing the DART spacecraft into a giant space rock called Dimorphos…
Is NASA testing out technology that they plan to use on another giant space rock at a later date?
Some have suggested that an asteroid known as Apophis could hit us on April 13th, 2029…
But NASA insists that Apophis will not hit us “for at least a century”…
The orbit of Apophis is now very well known by astronomers all over the globe. To me, all of the giant space rocks that are floating around up there that we don’t know about represent a much greater threat.
Unfortunately, the number of large space rocks going by our planet has been steadily increasing, and I believe that there is a good chance that we could see an asteroid impact long before 2029 ever rolls around.
If NASA officials know about such a threat, for now they aren’t admitting that to the public.
But they are admitting that they are trying to figure out how to deflect a very large asteroid, and that should definitely be getting our attention.
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Zerohedge
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Should you believe ANY word from ANY government, about ANYTHING? Yes, the idea of defending Earath is always a good idea- be it hostile aliens, or incoming asteroids. Those two possibilities should have precedence over anything else the political gasbags of any stripe have to say. After that, SHOW ME THE PROOF!!!
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