Trencher Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 For those of us keeping track. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-dart-mission-hits-asteroid-in-first-ever-planetary-defense-test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 Given the length of their run, I'd say it's a tie at best. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 Spoilsport ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 Lawnmower Boy, Cancer and wcw43921 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 We have no idea how many asteroids the dinosaurs managed to deflect before failing to stop the one that caused their extinction. For all we know, it was Dinosaurs 17, Mammals 1. Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trencher Posted September 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2022 Well I have not heard any dinosaurs complain about the score yet so it will stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 28, 2022 Report Share Posted September 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, Trencher said: Well I have not heard any dinosaurs complain about the score yet so it will stand. I dunno, I think 2 of em are complaining in this thread..... <....and teleporting into my scry-proof safe room...> Rails and Old Man 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 28, 2022 Report Share Posted September 28, 2022 Old Man, I think unclevlad has mocked us, What should we do to retaliate ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 I thought it was an accurate characterization actually. Pariah and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 8 hours ago, death tribble said: Old Man, I think unclevlad has mocked us, What should we do to retaliate ? Destroy Tokyo again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 What's Tokyo ever done to you ? Ah right, bombed Darwin. Ok then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 DShomshak, Old Man and Trencher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 (Image source page) 2 1/3 seconds between successive images. Haven't found an estimate for the energy release in any of the individual fragment impacts. tkdguy and Trencher 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 Hehheh, Shoemaker-Levy 9 goes FWOOM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 Incoming at 60 km/s (exceedingly hypersonic) and the fireball comes back up the channel plowed through the upper atmosphere and erupts into space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 31 minutes ago, Cancer said: Incoming at 60 km/s (exceedingly hypersonic) and the fireball comes back up the channel plowed through the upper atmosphere and erupts into space. Get a room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 1, 2022 Report Share Posted October 1, 2022 Uh oh. NASA Panics After Asteroid Fires Back Old Man and Pariah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 1, 2022 Report Share Posted October 1, 2022 Finally, an area that The Onion can be weirder than life again! Politics, I fear, is a lost cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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