&--Monday, July 21, 2008 ; 6:38 PM
EldwinSchrodinger @ Fight for believe or fight to save humanity?
EldwinSchrodinger @ Fight for believe or fight to save humanity?
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I think, it should be time we humans look into the universe as a bigger threat to humanity and all life on Earth. We all know, most of us; that the universe has a wide variety and countless numbers of asteroids looming the vast vacuum. Asteroids as tiny as a speck of dust, or even as large as texas, perhaps more? And these stuff are travelling at insanely quick. Imagine a .30 caliber travelling at a speed of x when you shoot it from a rifle, in comparison, an asteroid travels 60 times of x. which is, 60 times the speed of a moving bullet. Thats how fast it travels. And if one were to hit earth, There'll be a huge consequence in that.
I know there many ideas out there which could possibly save us from such threat. But obviously there are some which are not ethical or it would only cause more harm. Here's an example.
In movies such as Armageddon where a group of guys simply rocket out to space, land on the asteroid and nuke it into half and that splits it into 2 which would deflect away from earth. But.. that doesn't seemed to be the case. Normal explosives won't blow a chunk of rock into 2 equal piece, instead, it would be blowing it up into smaller rocks which might inturn cause more harm to the earth.
Asteroids which are as big as Singapore and if it were to collide with earth. Here's what would happen.
#1) The minute it enters the exosphere, it starts burning at intense heat such that if you see it coming towards you like a meteor shower, you'll get fried on the spot.
#2) The Huge tidal wave if it hits the ocean
#3) A massive earthquake which would be felt worldwide, and the explosion would hurl massive amount earth crust into the atmosphere, blocking off all light and you'll see a series of burning huge chunks of rocks like rockets over the skies, soon, the heat would completely destroy the ozone layer, causing harm to most living organisms.
#4) the ocean's ph value would drop to 1 as sulphuric based substance from the earth get into contact with the ocean.
#5) those who lived through the nightmare would find the earth back to prehistory where its totally inhabitable and it just be like an alien planet.
Most of us knows that apophis would be the next thing we should be wary of and whether it would strike earth or not. However, there are plans where by instead of blowing up the asteroids, we would send a spacecraft towards the incoming asteroid, with much of the craft's gravitational full, deflect the asteroid's path away from Earth. possibly avoiding "judgment day". Till then, its still a theory and not confirmed to be the best solution to save ourselves from such threat.
Labels: Fate Of Mankind
