A not-that-impossible scenario!

[Shirohebi]

Well, I have an imaginary scenario for you NBasers, and the fact that's an imaginary situation doesn't mean it's impossible and you'll see why. Let's say, for the sake of debate that there's a huge piece of rock coming in a collision course a zillion milles an hour. Big enough to devastate the entire planet, every plant, human being or animal of any kind...EVERYTHING!!! Now, according to the NASA guys doing the math, the ONLY way to avoid this doom is to build in the middle of Iran or North Korea a massive super weapon able to destroy it in a single shot. A huge destruction carrier against another...do you think the U.S and other countries would agree to do so? Would they think about the inminent danger or in the radical change in the balance of power after the avoided chaos?
After the rusian meteorite incident the world was posted one more time of how light our life is here on Earth, so would we spend our last days fighting over the scraps or united against total destruction?

 

[Mangekyō1]

All we would have to do is send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up there man. Problem solved

 

[johnny335704]

I guess, they will allow it.

 

[Putokage]

people get frantic. at this point some people pull together while others fall to shreds.

as humans we will always have conflict with eachother...

i'm sure if the US or any other superpower was building it we would install some failsafe way of it being used only once or something like an explosion afterwards to *dismantle* it.

 

[zamki]

F.ck this scenario

 

[Shirohebi]

Creepy,yet possible.

 

[Fountain]

Yeah, sure, but such weapon/device etc. would have to be powerful enough to shoot some kind of projectile powerful enough to precisely reach target in zillion miles away. It might sound simple but its actually a difficult task.

 

[Trippy Sage of all Dank]

It's hard to say. There's so much misinformation and political tension already. So much corruption is already at hand. It's hard enough for people to even trust each other these days. I would hope that we would be able to unite if such a crisis occurs... but then again we already have an impending crisis at hand. Most are just unaware of it or don't care.

 

[Your Creepy Stalker]

They would allow it, but they would probably make the missile in the US, then ship to korea because theor paranoid.

And ofcourse, they wouldnt belive them.

 

[Arian]

I like how the americans always portraits the iranian as pure evil....and how the average american has absolutely no idea about that country,other thenn the propaganda produced by the western countries...i like how.they are always.called terrorist(despite thr favt there werent.any persian terrorists at all lol) and also the fact that obviously no one cares whatever thr usa does..since all they do is "help" other people..
OT: if this happened i hardly see them allowing such thing. they would.rather take korea and iran over by force to do what is necessary...and while doing so whoever defends himself is considered a terrorist...and the usa is the only hero...

 

[YouHaveFallenSasuke]

blowing it up wont solve the problem it just splits in several pieces that probably cause even more destruction only way to avoid it would be if u see it soon enough place a space shuttle next to it and cause gravitation it will miss the earth

 

[Kikki]

I like the idea of being blown up so I no longer have to respond to some posts that people make. I know I don't have to but I still do and it's driving me crazy.

 

[Shirohebi]

well the thing here, the main subject was to know your opinions about that, but then there came the math ppl talking about space shuttles and millions of fragments, and speeds....damn it! I said 'an imaginary scenario' from the very first line so I was really looking for a healthy debate. Would the western countries allow that solution or not? What about the power balance after that, with that possiblwe threat of a superweapon in the hands of the 'bad guy of the movie'? That's all, forget about real science and leave that to NASA, ok?

 

[GeniusStyleUser]

ok...
if there were an asteroid or a comet on a trajectory with earth, we would most likely know about it.
what we could do, is send a bigger sized space ship/drone up and move it out of the same trajectory by using the gravitational forces associated with the smaller dronelike object we would send up there.

 

[Shirohebi]

Possible but not entirely true. if there were an object coming in a collision course toward Earth, and that object is coming exactly alligned with the Sun (like the rusian rock last month) we would know about it when the impact crack the globe and a fire tsunami wipe us all over the universe. Also, we don't have the tech right now to do that, other than the always dangerous nukes. I read somewhere that if a piece of rock is coming right here and we spot it with less than a year to impact, it will be too late to avoid it, so...bye bye!