Alright, who blinked and missed this ???

Seems the earth had a near-miss with a chunk of asteroid as big as a football field and no-one at NASA even knew !!!

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NASA did know this, and it was put out in the news almost a month ago. There's more asteroids out there that are projected to come close, and possibly hit.

 

You clearly didn't read the enclosed link I put on, since you would have noticed that NASA admitted they missed it !!!

Internal emails from NASA reveal how experts didn’t detect a football-field-sized asteroid until it was about to narrowly miss Earth this summer.

In emails obtained by BuzzFeed News via a Freedom of Information Act request, NASA officials asked each other how the asteroid, named “2019 OK,” had escaped detection until an observatory in Brazil reported it on July 24 — the same day it passed our planet.

 

Ok

 

I'm no space expert, but I would think a football field sized object would probably be pretty hard to notice out in space.

 

Not really, because there are (supposedly) a number of astral telescopes keeping watch, just for that purpose

 

This is obviously where they go wrong: the asteroids are in our physical realm, not in the astral one!
Glad I could help

 

Even with telescopes, you have an enormous area to cover. It's really not surprising that something slipped by.

 

Huh? I didn't see anything.

 

i suppose it depends on what number that "a number" consists of.

 

Isn't that the same thing you say about the Moon landings?

 

Strange that! Considering how the movies warn us about such asteroids, yet the powers that be only inform us about such big asteroids when they are extremely close to earth.

Makes me think if such an asteroid was to collide then there's no point in stocking piling food and things. Pretty much ALL of life on earth is screwed, end of.

Dinosaurs, feel sorry for yo bro's! we humans have absolute and utter zero chance what so ever.

 

If I didn't see it didn't happen

 

They can easily take pictures of something the size of a basketball in orbit, and a football field sized asteroid is not a problem. The issue is chaotic physics and keeping track of everything, when they've only been taking pictures of them and documenting them for half a century and don't even have a complete assessment of how many they are and how they tend to move. Just recently, a mechanism was discovered by which comets enter the solar system from the Ort cloud, and NASA might as well be using a handheld spyglass to assess the situation. However, that is all about to change, with private enterprise moving into asteroid mining and the newer miniaturized satellites that can be sent out quantity to survey things better.

The idea that NASA can stop an asteroid is about as silly as imagining they can prevent volcanoes from erupting. Yeah, maybe in a hundred years, but we won't know for sure until they do a more accurate survey. The inner solar system obeys different dynamics, with the asteroid belt being where everything starts to become more chaotic in the outer solar system. Jupiter, shields us from the worst crap, or earth would be another asteroid belt. Mars is tiny, as in not significantly different from being on the moon other than having a little more weight and 10% of an atmosphere instead of zilch. There's just nothing substantial between us and the asteroids, except our moon which acts as a shield.

Sending space cadets up would merely waste money better spent on surveying. What we need is a theory of everything, which should explain how people can live in low gravity environments and possibly create artificial gravity. NASA is working on a warp drive, but it will be possibly half a century before its ready for prime time. There's just no way to tell without the theory.

 

Well they did inform us well in advance of 99942 Apophis, which is due to make a close pass on Friday April, 13, 2029


So close you’ll be able to see it with the naked eye.

 

i'm not saying they couldn't see it, just that it's a bit of a needle in the haystack to notice that it's there to see.

 

Its like attempting to spot a black grain of sand, on a black wall, the size of the Mexican border. NASA has so many satellites planned its mind blowing. My own favorites include a gravity wave detector with satellites millions of miles apart, that should be able to see all the way through the quark soup at the beginning of the universe, right into the heart of the big bang. Theoretically, it shouldn't be too hard to take a picture of the big bang, about 3 seconds after it happened.

 

Let's be fair, If films like Deep Impact have taught us anything, (and as the idea of Bruce Willis and co, being an Armageddon saver, or even Sean Connery and Brian Keith plan to take out a Meteor working) it is, if/when "the Big one hits", then there will be little to nothing we can do about it.
Just ask the Dinosaurs ….. Oh wait, you can't

 

Nasa, when they launch another satellite, have to know the locality of every piece of space junk circling the globe to avoid collisions. Some of that space junk is as small as a spanner dropped by an astronaut while on a space walk. If NASA can know the location of every piece of space junk, then surely they should have been aware of an aseroid the size of a football field hurtling through space at over 17,000 mph.

 

Well, their gonna miss some shit from time to time, no one’s perfect