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[FearfulJesuit]

This morning, a meteor turned into a fireball and hit the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring over a thousand people. No craters or anything like that, though. Putin has called for an anti-meteor defense system.

[Il Palazzo]

Советской России под атакой пришельцев

[Bauglir]

Hm, this and Tunguska... do you think Soviet super-science created some kind of retroactive meteor-attraction field?

Jokes aside, that kinda sucks for everyone involved with the whole "The sky is exploding" thing.

[10ebbor10]

We're up to a thousand now? Was just 300 this morning.

Anyway, there was some talk about in the emotion threads.

As for a meteroid defense system. Doubt it'll work. These small meteors are nearly undectable, meaning that you'll need to set up rapid response systems all over the nation.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

As for a meteroid defense system. Doubt it'll work. These small meteors are nearly undectable, meaning that you'll need to set up rapid response systems all over the nation.

It's far from impossible, but probably not very necessary.

Threat title should be changed to Russia Strikes Meteor.

[10ebbor10]

As for a meteroid defense system. Doubt it'll work. These small meteors are nearly undectable, meaning that you'll need to set up rapid response systems all over the nation.

It's far from impossible, but probably not very necessary.

Threat title should be changed to Russia Strikes Meteor.

Well, it's kinda hard to hit 50 meters object(smaller as it's burns up), passing by at 54000 km/h.

[LoSboccacc]

yeah you need a res 1 sensor and a fc with a tracking speed at least of 64000,
not considering the fact that you'll need some huge meson to pass the atmosphere and hit at range

[Akura]

Basically, shooting a bullet at a faster, but slightly bigger, bullet.

Pretty much your only way to survive an asteroid collision with Earth is to colonize the moon. Or Mars, but those guys turned into complete dicks.

[10ebbor10]

Actually, significantly smaller works too.

The problem with intercepting these small asteroids is that you can't intercept them till they hit the athmosphere, by which point intercepting is pretty useless.

[darkrider2]

yeah you need a res 1 sensor and a fc with a tracking speed at least of 64000,
not considering the fact that you'll need some huge meson to pass the atmosphere and hit at range

Nah just a size one missile with really good engine tech.

[Ricky]

The Internet never fails. Found this during my rounds.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[FearfulJesuit]

So are we in for a round of pretty sunsets or another 1816?

[Loud Whispers]

Putin has called for an anti-meteor defense system.

Explode a meteorite and it just turns into many smaller meteorites. Not terribly helpful, makes things a tiny bit worse.

[Loud Whispers]

Putin has called for an anti-meteor defense system.

Explode a meteorite and it just turns into many smaller meteorites. Not terribly helpful, makes things a tiny bit worse.

Unless you strike it high enough in the atmosphere, in which case, it results in lots of little fragments that burn up.

Anything small enough for that wouldn't be worth the cost of exploding it.

[Sergarr]

Советская Россия под атакой пришельцев

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