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Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae

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Jason Damisch wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:45:22 AM UTC-8, rati...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>    Do  you folks   believe in dreams  and visions?
> 
> I was watching a television program about comets in my motel room after
> Forth Day.  I saw that the television program was suggesting it would be
> possible for humans to deflect such a wayward comet such that it would not
> crash into the Earth.  But, after following the "New Space" movement for
> over a decade, I will conclude that we still may not be able to have the
> redundant quick response heavy lift reusable launch capabilities necessary
> to accomplish such a task. In my opinion, I think that if they discovered
> a killer asteroid next week, and that if we only had two weeks afterwards
> to deflect it, we as a species would be reduced to the stone age by the
> fourth week.

Well, there are lot of "ifs" there.  First of all: wouldn't it be cheaper if 
we simply map all the killer asteroids and comets, so that we have a 30 
years warning period before they will impact? 

It is pretty obvious that reaching such a comet takes 10 years if you have a 
reasonable budget (see Rosetta).  Landing on it is a piece of cake, as long 
as we have enough RTX2010s left ;-). Vaporizing a small part of its surface 
with a nuke isn't difficult, either; this will result in a small deflection.  
If you have enough time, a small deflection is completely sufficient to get 
it out of the "danger zone".

If there are just two weeks to impact, there's no way to do anything.  This 
is not "Armageddon" SciFi, this is real live.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2014-11-13 14:09 -0800
  Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-13 19:19 -0800
    Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-11-13 20:11 -0800
      Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-13 20:22 -0800
        Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-11-14 02:48 -0800
          Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Forth Wright <forthwrightly@spritely.net> - 2014-11-14 11:05 +0000
            Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae november.nihal@gmail.com - 2014-11-14 09:27 -0800
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Softw all2001@spambog.com (Wolfgang Allinger) - 2014-11-14 16:11 -0300
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Softw rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-11-14 21:34 -0500
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Softw all2001@spambog.com (Wolfgang Allinger) - 2014-11-15 06:13 -0300
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Softw Rolf Schroedter <rolf.schroedter@dlr.de> - 2014-11-18 10:30 +0100
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-11-14 12:26 -0800
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-11-14 13:04 -0800
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2014-11-15 01:27 -0800
          Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-11-14 07:46 -1000
          Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-14 21:44 -0800
            Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-15 13:00 -0800
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-11-16 00:15 -0500
      Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-11-13 23:33 -0500
  Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-14 08:42 -0800
  Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-11-15 03:16 +0000
  Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae ratiovsh@gmail.com - 2014-11-18 09:45 -0800
    Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-19 08:03 -0800
      Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-11-19 16:49 +0000
        Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-19 17:58 -0800
          Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 04:21 -0500
          Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-20 11:04 -0800
            Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-20 11:18 -0800
            Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-20 19:43 -0800
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-11-21 19:56 -0500
          Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-11-20 22:29 -0500
            Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 22:49 -0500
            Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 02:01 -0800
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-11-21 16:38 -0800
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-11-21 20:31 -0500
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-11-22 11:30 -0800
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-11-22 14:52 -0500
                Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-11-23 05:02 -0600
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-11-21 19:43 -0500
              Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-11-22 01:33 +0100
      Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-11-19 18:12 +0100
        Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Softw all2001@spambog.com (Wolfgang Allinger) - 2014-11-19 16:42 -0300
        Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-11-19 16:12 -0500

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