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Elraine Figarette

It probably helps that I haven't seen that movie. Am I glad?

Also, if you hadn't guessed, I often find my car this way.


It's a Michael Bay flick. What do you think? gonk

Point taken.

EXPLOOOOOOSIONNNNNS! LACK OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMEEEEEEEEEENT!

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It probably helps that I haven't seen that movie. Am I glad?

Also, if you hadn't guessed, I often find my car this way.


It's a Michael Bay flick. What do you think? gonk

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Year 2040- asteroid warfare.

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"The government document said the mission, with no price tag at the moment, would inspire because it "will send humans farther than they have ever been before."

So, orbiting the moon is 'farther than we've ever been before'? Cuz, if you count unmanned there are the mars missions, the probes going to the edge of the galaxy and stuff like that

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Scenario's are going through my head, and all of them are about what could go wrong...

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This reminds me of a Lovercraftian novel called Titan, by Stephen Baxter. Rock falls, everyone dies. gonk
My prediction on what will happen (again), from most likely to least:
(almost everything else)

1. NASA get some dollars
2. LockMart delay development of Orion and SLS in the name of money, program cost goes up, projected time delayed
3. NASA have to cancel other programs to allot the asteroid program some money
4. Budget cut
5. Change of administration, new priorities
6. The program got cancelled, thousands loses their job but no one at NASA got laid off
7. A private company pick it up and made it work faster, better, cheaper
8. People questioning whether or not NASA is constitutional

OR (ISS/Shuttle)

3. NASA begged for international/commercial partners
4. Program cost goes up, projected completed time delayed
5. International relationship got better
6. Snail paced development, but completed
7. Thousands loses their job but no one at NASA got laid off
8. People questioning whether or not NASA is constitutional

OR (CCDev)

3. NASA gives a prize to which private company that could complete this faster, better, cheaper
4. Very fast development
5. People questioning whether or not NASA is constitutional, since giving prize out is NSF's original goal, until NASA took over

OR (Mercury/Gemini/Apollo)

4. Some random nation declare war
5. Congress pooling thousands of dollar into development
6. Everyone rush
7. project completion
8. Thousands loses their job but no one at NASA got laid off
9. People questioning whether or not NASA is constitutional

OR NASA got abolished before all those could happen. Game over.

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The language used in the article is bringing silly images into my head.
Quote:
"Yo, Neil! Where'd you leave the asteroid?"
"Uhh.... I think it's above Mare Tranquilitatis somewhere."
"Well get out your key fob, we'll just have to walk around and listen for the beep."
"Aw maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan."
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*


Dude, where's my asteroid?
Couldn't resist rofl

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Oh ok... You say Asteroid and I imagine those ones that are the size of a city block, not a planetary ping pong ball. Guess I should read more :<

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What kind of idiot... I mean it's not like it's another big body that could be whacked with other asteroids/meteors/comets before they finish their monkey business or anything... probably sending it hurtling towards the earth at some huge speed.
then the 25 foot thing will kill everyone in hawai, much like a falling airplane could manage.

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What kind of idiot... I mean it's not like it's another big body that could be whacked with other asteroids/meteors/comets before they finish their monkey business or anything... probably sending it hurtling towards the earth at some huge speed.

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Elraine Figarette
The language used in the article is bringing silly images into my head.
Quote:
"Yo, Neil! Where'd you leave the asteroid?"
"Uhh.... I think it's above Mare Tranquilitatis somewhere."
"Well get out your key fob, we'll just have to walk around and listen for the beep."
"Aw maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan."
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*


You're lucky. All I got were terrible, terrible Armageddon flashbacks. gonk

It probably helps that I haven't seen that movie. Am I glad?

Also, if you hadn't guessed, I often find my car this way.

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I wouldn't consider "a baggie with a drawstring" to be a lasso.

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Elraine Figarette
The language used in the article is bringing silly images into my head.
Quote:
"Yo, Neil! Where'd you leave the asteroid?"
"Uhh.... I think it's above Mare Tranquilitatis somewhere."
"Well get out your key fob, we'll just have to walk around and listen for the beep."
"Aw maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan."
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*


You're lucky. All I got were terrible, terrible Armageddon flashbacks. gonk

Barton Paladin

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The language used in the article is bringing silly images into my head.
Quote:
"Yo, Neil! Where'd you leave the asteroid?"
"Uhh.... I think it's above Mare Tranquilitatis somewhere."
"Well get out your key fob, we'll just have to walk around and listen for the beep."
"Aw maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan."
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*
*beep*

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Quote:
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson says a plan is in the works to bring an asteroid closer to Earth.



WASHINGTON — NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator revealed Friday.

The robotic ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, now being developed, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking exploration, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said the plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth.

Nelson, who is chairman of the Senate science and space subcommittee, said Friday that President Barack Obama is putting $100 million in planning money for the accelerated asteroid mission in the 2014 budget that comes out next week. The money would be used to find the right small asteroid.

"It really is a clever concept," Nelson said in a press conference in Orlando. "Go find your ideal candidate for an asteroid. Go get it robotically and bring it back."




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While there are thousands of asteroids that size out there, finding the right one that comes by Earth at just the right time to be captured will not be easy, said Donald Yeomans, who heads NASA's Near Earth Object program that monitors close-by asteroids. He said once a suitable rock is found it would be captured with the space equivalent of "a baggie with a drawstring. You bag it. You attach the solar propulsion module to de-spin it and bring it back to where you want it."

Yeomans said a 25-foot asteroid is no threat to Earth because it would burn up should it inadvertently enter Earth's atmosphere. The mission as Nelson described is perfectly safe, he said.

Nelson said this would help NASA develop the capability to nudge away a dangerous asteroid if one headed to Earth in the future. It also would be training for a future mission to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s, he said.

The government document said the mission, with no price tag at the moment, would inspire because it "will send humans farther than they have ever been before."


Source;
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/senator-nasa-to-lasso-asteroid-park-it-near-moon

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