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    Bill Nye on "Could we stop an asteroid?"

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    3) Guys, stop with the religion bashing and stuff. Not cool. You just sound like one of those dicks that take every opportunity to turn an otherwise benign discussion into a political outhouse ragefest, and honestly you just come off as an insecure person.

    Are you sure you're replying to the right thread? Where do you see religion bashing?

    Bill Nye on "Could we stop an asteroid?"

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    @magnemoe: Please allow me to paraphrase your response:

    800 years is a serious long time. It is safe to say that the available technology for dealing with climate change will improve over the next 100 years. In 400 years, I guess climate change will be a non issue. Add that nuclear energy is the only really practical way that we currently have of offsetting CO2 emissions, but public concern over that technology prevents us from using it. Let's just do nothing an leave it to future generations to solve the problem.

    Thank you for helping Nibb and I make our point.

    But global warming is gradual, and much more short-term. We can already feel its effects now, and it could get much worse on the next 50/100 years.

    The meteor, even if it would hit Earth in 800 years, would do no harm to us now. In 100 years, it would do no harm. In 500, 600, 700 years, we probably wouldn't feel its consequences. Even if it took 100 years to mount an expedition and deflect the asteroid, it wouldn't be unreasonable to wait a bit more for better (and more reliable) technology.

    What would be the easiest way to OBLITERATE THE ENTIRE PLANET?

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by Brenok

    I'll say as a disclaimer that I'm not a trained physicist either, but anyway:

    Surprisingly... not really that far out of our grasp, we already know that the LHC is capable of producing black holes not even remotely strong enough to destroy anything at all mind you, and they dissipate so fast that it's as if they were never there, but that's not all we know for a fact that we can use magnetic fields to crush matter together to fuse, so all we really need is a massively scaled up Fusion reactor(like this)

    The problem with Tokamak fusion reactors like this is that, as far as I know, they fuse particles by making them very fast, and colliding one on another, so it would be difficult to contain. And they're one-on-one collisions, which immediatly dissolve.

    How Old is KSP's Userbase?

    in KSP1 Discussion

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    Pretty cool to see so many younger teenagers interested in this game. I had to stop for a minute to think if I would have been interested in this when I was 13, then I remembered the ungodly number of hours I spent trying to master this game at about that age. Any of the other fogies remember that one?

    Wow, that game is quite impressive, specially for the Atari.

    The thing that buga me is that Skylab-like station, which had already been deorbited when the Shuttle started. Or is it a fictional station?

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