lolli/ They messed up, and now the stroid is on a direct trajectory to North America. You colonials are such blundering buffoons! Gute Befreiung, Verlierer! /lolli
Suprisingly, NASA isn’t stupid and considered whether smashing into an asteroid could change its course such that it might endanger Earth. So they picked one that wouldn’t. Rocket scientists are usually at least competent.
Why didn’t they have another ship behind it that they could stop further away so they could observe the impact? Kind of disappointing. Yeah, the camera broke. Well, I want to know if any part of the rock broke.
This is what NASA had released on the impact. The impact was successful on that specific part. It will be weeks before they will know exactly how successful the aftermath will be.
@Pandora There was another camera taking pictures. The LICIACube is a tiny probe equipped with cameras that was ejected from the main DART probe about 2 weeks before impact.
It will take a couple of days to download all the data and get images.
The info I heard is that it will probably 100 years before we need to worry, but they don’t want to wait until it is barreling down on us to do target practice. I trust your 50 years estimate more than what they feel that we “need to know”!!! Regardless of which number it is, I probably won’t be here to witness it…so good luck to whoever is still here!!!
^^ STOP worrying, when I was your age the end of the world was barreling down upon us. Here it is 50 years later & the end of the world is still barreling down upon us!!! Throw this problem in the box marked “Things I can’t fix” & worry about the “things that you CAN fix!!! By the time it happens, we may very well know HOW to fix the problem…OR…it might NOT ever happen!!!
Look at the bright side. In 50 years, Putin may have nuked most of the Northern hemisphere, and we’ll be worry about global cooling from radioactive fallout, instead of the consequences of global warming.