How to Avoid a Deadly Asteroid Impact

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A giant asteroid took out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Could a big meteor hit Earth again? And if we find one coming our way, how can we use science to avoid a deadly asteroid or meteorite impact?
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Impact Earth! Simulator: www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
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National Academies report: “Defending Earth” www.nap.edu/catalog/12842/def...
3D asteroid simulation www.asterank.com/3d/
NASA’s near-Earth object program neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Great meteor/meteorite FAQ www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-show...
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  • @TeKaMOTO
    @TeKaMOTO7 жыл бұрын

    I like that you use the metric system :)

  • @derekwall200

    @derekwall200

    5 жыл бұрын

    i cannot understand kilometers except that i know 1 kilometer is 0.6 of a mile. 100 meters is 328 feet

  • @Lumberjack_king

    @Lumberjack_king

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know a meter is three feet is a foot is 12 inches and that's all I know about the mectric and imperial system not including c° I fully understand that one

  • @miriga3927

    @miriga3927

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don’t get it... but I know how it works, for the record I still don’t quite get the imperial system though

  • @TheGreatAtario

    @TheGreatAtario

    3 жыл бұрын

    I just wish he'd pronounce it consistently

  • @NC_Isro_64

    @NC_Isro_64

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @besmart
    @besmart7 жыл бұрын

    "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" - Larry Niven

  • @ricksanchez8521

    @ricksanchez8521

    7 жыл бұрын

    What if they did have a space program? Space dinosaurs, that's what.

  • @beastlone8924

    @beastlone8924

    7 жыл бұрын

    Man I am early. ALIENS ARE REAL!!!!

  • @per41495

    @per41495

    7 жыл бұрын

    Did you have a good time in the jungle? Welcome back atleast

  • @madmaster0015

    @madmaster0015

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Its Okay To Be Smart Why would cockroaches be the next rulers of Earth? Maybe birds would have their chance instead.

  • @_.soymilk

    @_.soymilk

    7 жыл бұрын

    MAD Master001 it was a joke

  • @thefattyfatty1
    @thefattyfatty17 жыл бұрын

    call it mean names until it goes away

  • @JellybellyWaffles

    @JellybellyWaffles

    7 жыл бұрын

    That might just make it angry though.

  • @isthisgoodenough5338

    @isthisgoodenough5338

    7 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry there is more of us then them

  • @suyci

    @suyci

    7 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry, we'll just spraypaint em, the sun will chase them away for us

  • @Adraria8

    @Adraria8

    6 жыл бұрын

    Meanie face

  • @anglerose7895

    @anglerose7895

    6 жыл бұрын

    thefattyfatty1 good one that's really funny that's how certain things put out fires by calling it mean names

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion7 жыл бұрын

    I suspect my upstairs neighbor to be a serial killer. So, "Death from Above" is a valid concern to me.

  • @Master_Therion

    @Master_Therion

    7 жыл бұрын

    Defiant Abyss Would it be funny, if I said yummy?

  • @defiantabyss9882

    @defiantabyss9882

    7 жыл бұрын

    Master Therion yes mommy.

  • @jackielinde7568

    @jackielinde7568

    7 жыл бұрын

    I only worry about "Death from Above" when trying to take a nap after having a meal of mostly beans and cheese (plus the odd soy product). You take your chances napping at his house.

  • @Alkaloid-Odin

    @Alkaloid-Odin

    7 жыл бұрын

    Master Therion hahahahahah lol

  • @suyci

    @suyci

    7 жыл бұрын

    Does your upstairs neighbour happen to resemble a giant rock from space with feelings of animosity against dinosaurs? He might be the suspect of a mass genocide against said creatures

  • @mcawesome4150
    @mcawesome41507 жыл бұрын

    We should build a wall to stop the asteroids from entering our planet

  • @Jopie65

    @Jopie65

    7 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure thats what Trump meant. If only he were president...

  • @adumbrate5889

    @adumbrate5889

    7 жыл бұрын

    These asteroids keep taking our jobs

  • @speedy01247

    @speedy01247

    7 жыл бұрын

    And our home's, our country, our land and our lives! #NASA2016

  • @MastaChafa

    @MastaChafa

    7 жыл бұрын

    And make the asteroids pay for it

  • @peksn

    @peksn

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rodrigo Garduño HAHAHAHA

  • @yura50597
    @yura505977 жыл бұрын

    How old is the host? He somehow manages to look both like a teenager and like a 40 year old.

  • @Boogers32150

    @Boogers32150

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yura Yedynak late 20s

  • @Scorpandkill

    @Scorpandkill

    7 жыл бұрын

    ~30

  • @rickkwitkoski1976

    @rickkwitkoski1976

    7 жыл бұрын

    Joe Hanson is 33. Born February 23, 1983

  • @austinro8

    @austinro8

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rick Kwitkoski wow we've got the same birth day!

  • @BerryFairy23

    @BerryFairy23

    7 жыл бұрын

    Austin Robertson omg me too!!!

  • @MightySuki
    @MightySuki7 жыл бұрын

    We just need One Punch Man

  • @chriss2031

    @chriss2031

    7 жыл бұрын

    Pah. just be a Man and flip your middle finger at it. That will make it go away in shame.

  • @anglerose7895

    @anglerose7895

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just called the asteroid mean names and then just say you're useles and then just let it go back crying and then once it comes back say sorry that's what I would do

  • @acephotino

    @acephotino

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah

  • @NielsHeldens
    @NielsHeldens7 жыл бұрын

    But still, *VOTE GIANT METEOR 2016* JUST END IT ALL

  • @subclavia6779

    @subclavia6779

    7 жыл бұрын

    Make the universe great again!

  • @amcghie7

    @amcghie7

    7 жыл бұрын

    *Meteorite Make sure that rock follows up with its campaign promises by hitting the ground.

  • @that1valentian769

    @that1valentian769

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Even Andy *Asteroid. Giant Meteor is still small than a meter.

  • @amcghie7

    @amcghie7

    7 жыл бұрын

    That1 Amiibo Hoarder "A meteor is an asteroid or other object that burns and vaporizes upon entry into the Earth's atmosphere; meteors are commonly known as "shooting stars." If a meteor survives the plunge through the atmosphere and lands on the surface, it's known as a meteorite." Strictly it could be both an asteroid and a meteorite. Its meteoroids that are less than a meter.

  • @FelipeKana1

    @FelipeKana1

    7 жыл бұрын

    vote giant meteor! vice nuclear winter. campaign support: cthulhu

  • @rune12358
    @rune123587 жыл бұрын

    The Oort cloud is the one that REALLY scares me. We could have an object the size of a moon thrown at us, or already on a collision course, and we wouldn't have the faintest idea because it's so freaking far away we still expect to find new PLANETS there. And even if we detected something centuries before it hit, there are some rocks out there big enough that we could do literally nothing about them other than get a move on those offworld colonies. Living in a planet is like being a sitting duck at the cosmic shooting gallery.

  • @mollof7893
    @mollof78937 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for using meter!

  • @nebojsagalic4246
    @nebojsagalic42467 жыл бұрын

    So asteroids are like cancer, so long as you catch it early, we ought to be fine.

  • @captainskinder

    @captainskinder

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nebojsa Galic hmmm true

  • @chandler7270
    @chandler72707 жыл бұрын

    Just sat in on your discussion at UT about communicating science. Very insightful comments!

  • @Stray0
    @Stray07 жыл бұрын

    Making an impact by avoiding an impact! I'll have to think about that for a while.

  • @RoScFan
    @RoScFan7 жыл бұрын

    hand the planet over to the coackroches... LOL

  • @Hokunin

    @Hokunin

    7 жыл бұрын

    they actually die very easily in minus temperatures, so in case of global winter they go extinct.

  • @Crusender

    @Crusender

    7 жыл бұрын

    they survive the dinosaur meteor...

  • @MastaChafa

    @MastaChafa

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well not exactly go extinct, but neither us for that matter.

  • @chriss2031

    @chriss2031

    7 жыл бұрын

    In the worst case. The bacterial goo and slimes will make it. Thats something....

  • @bit-gx5qb

    @bit-gx5qb

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@joshuahunt3032 HOLY CRAP thats some exessive use of words right there @JoshuaSlowpoke .

  • @_.soymilk
    @_.soymilk7 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 1million subs!!🎉🎉

  • @rojorohr4723
    @rojorohr47237 жыл бұрын

    Love ya, Joe Hanson! This video is great, I think I might use some of it for my physics class (:

  • @mattstromberg5272
    @mattstromberg52727 жыл бұрын

    This channel has grown so quickly I was subbed at 50k and haven't looked at the sub count until now

  • @MiniCountessIsme
    @MiniCountessIsme7 жыл бұрын

    I've got an idea for a video or you can answer it in an "Ask Joe Stuff": How would the world be like if humans had wings?

  • @yotams6168
    @yotams61687 жыл бұрын

    "Making an impact, by avoiding a impact"... nice one.

  • @jesseh5888
    @jesseh58887 жыл бұрын

    "90% of asteroids are discovered". How did you get the value "90%", do we know how many asteroids there are?

  • @Cryptonat

    @Cryptonat

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sample size. Since we have recorded quite a bit of information, its easy to use the data to speculate on the possible remainder.

  • @jesseh5888

    @jesseh5888

    7 жыл бұрын

    Cryptonat Sample size? We clearly don't have sample size

  • @jesseh5888

    @jesseh5888

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Cryptonat here is an example. If I know for a fact that there are atleast 90 people in a room A, and from my observation from room B which has 100 people in it. I cannot conclude that in room A 90 people represent 90%.

  • @Cryptonat

    @Cryptonat

    7 жыл бұрын

    I believe you are being unnecessarily difficult. I have provided plenty of evidence to support my, and the host's, conclusions. Please do additional research using the material provided before continuing.

  • @jesseh5888

    @jesseh5888

    7 жыл бұрын

    Cryptonat I did my research. 90% is from an estimated baseline total. Even the NASA statement says so, this baseline is subject to change. This amount isn't consistent throughout the world not even within NASA.

  • @hlynurgumundsson6979
    @hlynurgumundsson69797 жыл бұрын

    Yay finally @ 1 mill Congrats!!

  • @anglerose7895
    @anglerose78956 жыл бұрын

    I love this KZread channel it's teaches you things we never knew about and the reason I really like this channel because I feel like it's really great to be smart and you know most kids think I'm stupid and that hurts but if I just share some of my smartness with them they just make fun of me for being smart but it's okay for everyone to be smart once in awhile and you know it's okay

  • @kateoleary4984
    @kateoleary49843 жыл бұрын

    I’ve actually seen a meteorite fall from the sky and then it lit up the entire mountain like a camera flash, then a few seconds later the floor shook like a huge truck was going past. Coolest thing I ever saw in my life

  • @auroramccain7078
    @auroramccain70787 жыл бұрын

    my question on the smaller deadly rocks bit is wouldn't that also up the surface area and thus up the odds that they would then burn up on entry?

  • @joshuajwebster85
    @joshuajwebster856 жыл бұрын

    Not sure if this has been asked, but could the concussive shock wave of an explosion change the trajectory of an earthbound object?

  • @punims
    @punims7 жыл бұрын

    Seems like somebody went to the Griffith Observatory :) great video.

  • @Sparrownage
    @Sparrownage7 жыл бұрын

    the car collisions don't add together that way, two cars colliding at 50km/h is equal to a car hitting a wall at 50km/h not 100km/h. Similar thing was mentioned in mythbusters

  • @jonaerakua1
    @jonaerakua17 жыл бұрын

    I could stay awake, just to hear you breathing! Watch you smile while you are sleeping. While you're far away and dreaming. AND EVERY MOMENT SPENT WITH YOU IS A MOMENT I TREAAAASUREEEEE!!! **insert pic of Liv Tyler caressing the TV and shedding a tear*

  • @ACoroa
    @ACoroa7 жыл бұрын

    What about comets? How often do they hit? And since they are far more unpredictable than asteroids, aren't they more likely to do us in?

  • @MrTripcore

    @MrTripcore

    7 жыл бұрын

    There's less comets than there are asteroids.. it depends on the size and density of the comet.. if it's quite large then it will be attracted to the sun.. it'd then need to be attracted back towards jupiter when jupiter was at the right position for it to hit earth.. there'd be about a 1 in 360 + chance of that happening.. most comets would be attracted to jupiter I'm guessing... but the really big ones that we see every 100 years or so are the ones heading towards the sun's gravity. so.. 100 x 360 = every 36,000 years a comet would hit the earth... "Halley's comet will next appear in the night sky in the year 2062. It orbits the sun every 75-76 years, so this is the time between appearances. Halley's comet was recorded by Edmund Halley in 1682. It was seen again in 1758, 1835, 1910, and 1986." ok I was wrong about 100 years.. it's 75.. so.. 75 x 360 = every 27,000 years humans have been around for about 70,000 years. I guess it takes additional time for each of the 360 units of space to all be covered.. I'm not very good at mathematics, sorry :)

  • @yaseenevo
    @yaseenevo7 жыл бұрын

    love your show man

  • @MastaChafa
    @MastaChafa7 жыл бұрын

    This idea came from a kid when speaking with Neil Degrasse about the problems of dealing with asteroids: To have spaceships with giant webs to "catch" the asteroid, even fragmented rocks, and drive em away. Even Neil was surprised.

  • @bogdangiusca5057
    @bogdangiusca50577 жыл бұрын

    We could mine it use its matirial if we have super fast rill and it would be hard to get them back We could use a super strong lezer to push it

  • @Kezleigh_Art
    @Kezleigh_Art3 жыл бұрын

    That "uh oh" really killed me 😅🤣 tea everywhere!

  • @AngelSamael
    @AngelSamael7 жыл бұрын

    Death rains from above!

  • @denver6331

    @denver6331

    6 жыл бұрын

    Angel Samael play nice play reaper riding phara..................

  • @shadowman9024
    @shadowman90247 жыл бұрын

    Comets are being pushed by gravity of the planets in the Oort Cloud. So yeah, we can expect them anytime since we know little information about Oort Cloud

  • @thebruces6440
    @thebruces64407 жыл бұрын

    do stuff on sizes and how it matter

  • @Titanic-wo6bq
    @Titanic-wo6bq6 жыл бұрын

    5:51 MY MIND EA SPLODED!

  • @user-bd7ic6mu7m
    @user-bd7ic6mu7m7 жыл бұрын

    if that is how relative velocity works (4:22), then something at 1/2 the speed of light colliding with another object moving at 1/2 of the speed of light would make the collision be at the speed of light.

  • @tommot5453
    @tommot54537 жыл бұрын

    What's the difference between asteroids and comets/meteors?

  • @fritz4860
    @fritz48606 жыл бұрын

    I live in Chicago and I laughed at that Cubs joke.😂

  • @shadowtrooper262
    @shadowtrooper2622 жыл бұрын

    We can make a Giant canon just like Stonehenge from Ace Combat to shoot down as many asteroids as we can. Maybe space miners can actually be earth's saviors in the future when they are able to control the meteor's direction.

  • @ranjay12
    @ranjay125 жыл бұрын

    Can you make a video on Hardy-Weinberg principle

  • @FreePalestine460
    @FreePalestine4607 жыл бұрын

    What if the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs hit the moon instead?

  • @DefecTec

    @DefecTec

    7 жыл бұрын

    War Rock Then humans would have never came into existence

  • @Gilgameshh

    @Gilgameshh

    7 жыл бұрын

    they perhaps would just much differently.

  • @isthisgoodenough5338

    @isthisgoodenough5338

    7 жыл бұрын

    Then the Dinosaurs would still live, or be destroyed by human kind if humans would even exist

  • @admiralcat3809

    @admiralcat3809

    7 жыл бұрын

    War Rock they will still be dead but it will take longer time for them to die. dinosaurs are already dying before the asteroid because of volcanoes, sea level flactuations and climate change

  • @DefecTec

    @DefecTec

    7 жыл бұрын

    Captain Cat The dinosaurs have ruled the earth for millions of years.. Climate change wouldn't stop them, they'd evolve past that. But yes, they were weakening over many other things

  • @steamcleana_6918
    @steamcleana_69187 жыл бұрын

    Because joe Hanson said sleep tight I will now genuinely get a good sleep

  • @Linkous12
    @Linkous127 жыл бұрын

    Just in time for election day. Coincidence?

  • @AnimeHumanCoherence

    @AnimeHumanCoherence

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think not. (Martians, please just kill us now.)

  • @therealzackrunkle

    @therealzackrunkle

    7 жыл бұрын

    Also, the asteroid landed in the Yucatan. All the more reason to build a wall.

  • @amiralozse1781
    @amiralozse17817 жыл бұрын

    Holy cow!! Already 1 Million years passed since I last watched a documentary about the disappearence of the dinosaur - back then it happened 65 million years ago. I am feeling very old now :-(

  • @emmayy67
    @emmayy677 жыл бұрын

    Pretty please with sugar on top- mph or kph.

  • @markoneill2447
    @markoneill24477 жыл бұрын

    How does light change the course of the asteroid if light is mass-less? Is it that it heats up on side of the asteroid and the temperature change pushes it off course? I am very confuse, please help

  • @Dee-jp7ek

    @Dee-jp7ek

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mark1nc photons carry small amounts of inertia so when they hit an object and get absorbed they transfer the inertia to give a small push. It's the science behind solar sails.

  • @amused6415

    @amused6415

    7 жыл бұрын

    Just learned this today from Science Asylum which is a really cool channel that I totally recommend you check out. "When people hear the word mass they think of rest mass which light definitely does not have. However, if you are an experimentalist then all you care about is what you can measure. In that case then light does have mass in every measurable way. Light can affect something's gravity and light can give things momentum when it hits them because it has this silly thing called relativistic mass. Rest mass + kinetic mass = relativistic mass." Nick Lucid said he is going to also do a follow-up video so subscribe to learn more. :)

  • @markoneill2447

    @markoneill2447

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks guys

  • @MrTripcore

    @MrTripcore

    7 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered the same thing.. are there any known examples of light that does not have inertia / momentum?

  • @markoneill2447

    @markoneill2447

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tripcore I don't think so, light is always moving

  • @Vipenstrike
    @Vipenstrike7 жыл бұрын

    LOL at the 3:02 "uh-oh"

  • @ShlokParab
    @ShlokParab2 жыл бұрын

    Optimist: We have found 90% of asteroids. Pessimist: But we haven't found the other 10%.

  • @NighteeeeeY
    @NighteeeeeY7 жыл бұрын

    Just yesterday I saw a Gif which showed, that probably the moon and its gravity behaviour with the earth is the reason we didnt get hit by an asteroid yet. Its nearly impossible to hit is, since the forces around earth are so strong for a thing of the size up to 50km in diameter. Which is pretty lucky. And secondly, today common sense is, that it wasnt the meteroid back in the days, which killed the dinosaurs. At least not alone. But an ongoing series of vulcano eruptions which topped them off.

  • @MrPlaneCrashers
    @MrPlaneCrashers7 жыл бұрын

    4:18 : Actually it is not true. a 50 mph car crashing in another 50mph car creates as much damage as a 50 mph car hitting a wall. However the rest of this part is correct (The mythbusters tested it).

  • @BZAKether
    @BZAKether7 жыл бұрын

    Considering what just happened this 11/9, I think that we need a very good old 5 km asteroid right now

  • @princeshezy007
    @princeshezy0077 жыл бұрын

    My friends and I debate on this topic ourselves and I told him that the earth was covered with satellites and that when a big asteroid comes the sats move away from the earths trajectory and target the the asteroid with lasers. We were teenagers so I thought that comforting him by saying something I'm not sure of was better than saying we all can die any moment.

  • @thahir267
    @thahir2677 жыл бұрын

    about the gravity tug boat thingie.... do we even have big enough space shuttles to change the course of a 10km wide asteroid using anly relative gravity??

  • @jebus6kryst
    @jebus6kryst7 жыл бұрын

    Perfect timing for this video, since I am voting for Giant Meteorite.

  • @Boiaz
    @Boiaz7 жыл бұрын

    Death from above 1979, great band!

  • @loturzelrestaurant

    @loturzelrestaurant

    2 жыл бұрын

    Question: My comment... seen it?

  • @AJ-kj1go
    @AJ-kj1go7 жыл бұрын

    It's a great band too.

  • @samuelgarcia9880
    @samuelgarcia98802 жыл бұрын

    when i was a child there was a small pebble that hit out car and destroyed the glass they thought we threw that rock but i think its a meteorite cus before the hit we heard a very loud whistle and there was almost no people near us in a couple 10ths of meters, but its just a guess idk where that pebble come from

  • @paolor626
    @paolor6267 жыл бұрын

    A video on my birthday? I didnt think miracles could happen!

  • @mrautistic2580
    @mrautistic25807 жыл бұрын

    NICE!!!

  • @Frostwyrmer
    @Frostwyrmer7 жыл бұрын

    3:00 I had to replay this about 10 times and am still laughing xD Great vid as always :D

  • @Adam_C_anadian
    @Adam_C_anadian6 жыл бұрын

    Great video as always! Your relative velocities in a head on collision tho is inaccurate. To vehicles of the same mass having a head on collision at 50 kms/h does not translate into a combined speed of 100kkms/h.... It would still be as tho a car traveling at 50kms/h hit a concrete wall. Hence a relative velocity of 50kms/h. I know it sounds crazy but 2 cars having a head on collision at 50kms/h is not 100kms/h relative velocity it is still 50kms/h. Mind blown! Again great videos as always Adam

  • @d4.2g
    @d4.2g7 жыл бұрын

    matter colliding with earth is simply coalescence of gravitational forces. we can think of this as leftover planet building processes and therefore assume that given time these events will lessen in frequency when given more time. I believe that, if this isn't already being considered our current estimates assume the next mass extinction event is closer than what we've recently predicted. also, didn't Adam and Jamie do some work on the force of two bodies in a head-on collision equaling each respective body rather than the sum of each body's velocity? I'm curious...

  • @dragonskunkstudio7582
    @dragonskunkstudio75827 жыл бұрын

    Why is there a correlation between size and time?

  • @Westwoodshadowgaming
    @Westwoodshadowgaming7 жыл бұрын

    Makes you wonder if there were ever any precursor species that got to a tech level anywhere near us.

  • @JokerPW84
    @JokerPW847 жыл бұрын

    Once I saw a documentary about this. They showed that we could make a big enough solar lens in orbit that could direct enough power from the sun to change the object's trajectory.. Like that painting mentioned, but without the need to phisycally reach it ! =]

  • @thestarforger832
    @thestarforger8324 жыл бұрын

    I heard that it was more likely a comet because they’re much bigger on average.

  • @Icarus1234
    @Icarus12347 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry, we are going to let roaches colonise Mars. And then try to kill them later by fusing human's with various insects.

  • @jamesedwards2324

    @jamesedwards2324

    7 жыл бұрын

    Icarus maybe a coalition from a bunch of competing nations, what could go wrong??

  • @Icarus1234

    @Icarus1234

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Awesome Hut!! yeah. and I promise none of the nations are going to try to backstab each other, especially not China or Russia

  • @Cora.T
    @Cora.T6 жыл бұрын

    havent we already nudged one of a collision course?

  • @dhawthorne1634
    @dhawthorne16347 жыл бұрын

    I have always liked the laser deflection idea. Shoot a laser at the object, vaporizing some of it's surface to create a volcanic plume that acts like a little rocket engine. However, I don't like the idea of if being a series of satellites. Our planet's orbits are already too crowded. I feel they should be based on the moon and use solar capacitor banks. Better yet, would be rings of mirrors able to focus the suns light to a single point at any distance. The moon is so far out that it would have plenty of time to work on redirecting the momentum of these huge, high energy masses.

  • @XBret64
    @XBret647 жыл бұрын

    I'm so sad that the election made everyone forget about the Cubs :(

  • @loturzelrestaurant

    @loturzelrestaurant

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi, stranger. I thought this channel's comment-section, if any place, would have smarteristic and smarttastic people. So i wanted to ask your opinion of a Project of mine, trying to help youtube help itself - getting it to become less of what can only be described as 'Messy' without wanting to use hard swearing... Hate, Threats, P0rn, Racism, Sexism, Scam, Spam-Bots, P0rn-Spam-Bots and much more. Oh, and of course the new Kid in Town: The Covid-Denier/Mask-Hater. All of them are non-subtle (some more than others) and therefore easy to find. I used the reportbutton as it was originally intended; not as Cancel-Culture but to help. I mean, the r-button exists. Ist not a Myth. But truth, so to speak. Get what i mean to say? Just this week, i got 1 Covid-Denier-Channel (yes, the entire thing, not just 1 video) and 2 Open Racists (Users, not KZreadrs) removed. And this feels good. No, its not a 'Wonder-Miracle-Solution!!', but who needs that? Do you need that? Point is: Racists and what-not-else are easy to find. Its possible to help; evidend alone by how i already did it. So thats that.

  • @connor6596

    @connor6596

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@loturzelrestaurant hahaha you'll never ever get rid of us. Cry harder.

  • @loturzelrestaurant

    @loturzelrestaurant

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@connor6596 ???? ? ????

  • @loturzelrestaurant

    @loturzelrestaurant

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@connor6596 What? ?

  • @wholeNwon
    @wholeNwon7 жыл бұрын

    Herodotus and Xenophanes observed fossils and correctly deduced some of their significance, but perhaps not extinction. My parents' house was hit by a small meteorite when I happened to be there. It ricocheted off a sloped porch roof and landed in a large bush, part of which it crushed. I have the rock in my den.

  • @taxavoider9889
    @taxavoider98897 жыл бұрын

    For some reason I thought this would be about the London blitz or just bombings from above

  • @derekwall200
    @derekwall2005 жыл бұрын

    well we saw the tunguska meteor explosion in 1908 and saw another incident with the chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 which actually caused property damage and injuries even though it detonated 18 miles above the earth. that tells us that our time here on earth is limited and we can only hope that we can see any large enough impactor in time, one that poses a significant threat to either a city or even an entire country. after all we have technology and theories on how we might be able to avoid going the way of the dinosaurs

  • @ShlokParab
    @ShlokParab2 жыл бұрын

    “..there is no asteroid that we know of with a serious chance of hitting Earth in near future...” “... But that doesn't mean that there is no such asteroid out there...” “... But that also doesn't mean that there is such asteroid out there.”

  • @RedBlueGreen102
    @RedBlueGreen1024 жыл бұрын

    my grandparents had a Meteorite land in there back yard in Belgium.

  • @tahakaleem1783
    @tahakaleem17837 жыл бұрын

    Let's build a wall!

  • @poe_slaw

    @poe_slaw

    7 жыл бұрын

    and make the moon pay for it

  • @isthisgoodenough5338

    @isthisgoodenough5338

    7 жыл бұрын

    The moon is the wall...

  • @ShubhThakkar

    @ShubhThakkar

    7 жыл бұрын

    Absence if moon is disastrous for the earth..

  • @mirtul1
    @mirtul17 жыл бұрын

    I can just imagine the faces of a civilization somewhere else in space finding that painted asteroid, putting into question all their previous believes.

  • @suchahappyfox
    @suchahappyfox7 жыл бұрын

    Build strong lasers and put them in space or on the moon., Then use them to deflect incoming threats

  • @sk8rdman
    @sk8rdman7 жыл бұрын

    1:22 says asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula. 1:28 Proceeds to show a graphic of an asteroid hitting the Pacific Ocean, with the Yucatan Peninsula in clear view, unharmed.

  • @LightyNourT
    @LightyNourT7 жыл бұрын

    That intro cracked me up.

  • @LG-jb9zs
    @LG-jb9zs3 жыл бұрын

    3:02 I about DIED

  • @thegap0
    @thegap07 жыл бұрын

    If you now think that two cars running into each other at 50 mph each is the same as one car running into a concrete wall at 50 mph, then you’ve got that wrong. Because, when in the end, you’ve got two recked cars not one, and the energy used to wreck each of those cars as per a 50 mph collision is twice the energy it would have taken to wreck one of them. So it is like a 100 mph collision, shared evenly by two cars (so each gets 50 mph worth!)

  • @Camymikey
    @Camymikey7 жыл бұрын

    Lol 1:47 there was a crumb on my screen and I thought yes I can see it

  • @amandahules9236
    @amandahules92367 жыл бұрын

    possible impact aversion plan: I really like the general idea of just the slightest diversion of a NEO's course, but none of the examples really popped for me. I've thought much about this, and I think a small fleet of mini-rocket boosters, landed on the surface of some NEO and ignited simultaneously would give just enough oomph to nudge it just enough to avoid us. imagine, instead of a massively expensive rocket ship designed to hopefully travel alongside said NEO and gravity tow it, possibly being lost or crashed and only able to be used once, we instead build a similar ship to get near the NEO and fire a salvo of missle-mounted, cheaply made rocket boosters, designed as cheaply and numerously as possible, to be kicked on at once. having a bunch of them would at least ensure a more ready supply should we miss the first shot, or Einstein forbid, need to defend against the unthinkable more than once.

  • @Gerry565656
    @Gerry5656567 жыл бұрын

    Last time I was this early I couldn't think of a original joke...

  • @FrenchLightningJohn
    @FrenchLightningJohn7 жыл бұрын

    what is the difference between a meteor and a comet?

  • @crangor4652
    @crangor46526 жыл бұрын

    0:33 im taking this one personal

  • @DanteYewToob
    @DanteYewToob7 жыл бұрын

    But what about stray laserbeams? On Tamaran, it is not uncommon to be struck by stray laser beams.

  • @sebgrootus
    @sebgrootus5 жыл бұрын

    dont think the gravity of a small space ship, or the push of SUNLIGHT is enough to really alter the course of an entire asteroid enough to help us survive, but what do i know

  • @kvenu2007
    @kvenu20077 жыл бұрын

    well the two cars crashing at the same speed won't double it, rather beyond third law equals it to hitting an immovable object at the same speed ... there was an entire Mythbuster episode related to this simple misconception

  • @brookssilber
    @brookssilber7 жыл бұрын

    Back to the future was only a year off! So close!

  • @crispyowl288
    @crispyowl2887 жыл бұрын

    that riddle thooo

  • @bagandtag4391
    @bagandtag43917 жыл бұрын

    We need to make a giant spring and make it bounce...

  • @cameronsipka3352
    @cameronsipka33527 жыл бұрын

    poor dinosaurs :(

  • @briaiguess8834
    @briaiguess88343 жыл бұрын

    The dinosaurs watching this video: A little to late bud... A little to late, we could've used this a video around few multiple millions of years ago...

  • @zamundaaa776
    @zamundaaa7767 жыл бұрын

    You could send a rocket to the Meteor and not slam it into it but instead try to attach it on the Meteor and change its course using thrusters

  • @tardigrades3184
    @tardigrades31847 жыл бұрын

    Lol when you said "comets make me nervous" I wasn't paying attention so I heard "comments make me nervous they live way out at the edge of the solar system"

  • @alireza2847
    @alireza28473 жыл бұрын

    "making an impact by avoiding an impact ☄" Gotta say that was pretty good

  • @Ulaanbar

    @Ulaanbar

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nice emoji thingymobob

  • @loturzelrestaurant

    @loturzelrestaurant

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ulaanbar Can i ask you something, Rucas?

  • @Ulaanbar

    @Ulaanbar

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@loturzelrestaurant Yes? What is it?