DART worked!
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BBC News[^] That's a good start, though I'd want a little more idea of the overall effect before I tried it for real. An over-deflection could be worse than no deflection with an actual object heading in our general direction ...
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With these types of experiments I can't help but think sooner or later we'll seriously harm a hidden civilisation somehow and they'll get back to us and take revenge. :~ I watch too many movies ;P
V.
Maybe the Earth is the hell of another world.
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BBC News[^] That's a good start, though I'd want a little more idea of the overall effect before I tried it for real. An over-deflection could be worse than no deflection with an actual object heading in our general direction ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Meh, I'll take Bruce Willis any day :mad:
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Meh, I'll take Bruce Willis any day :mad:
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Armageddon was one big disaster from beginning to end!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Maybe the Earth is the hell of another world.
Not exactly what you said, but somehow related: Dante's Equation - Wikipedia[^]
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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BBC News[^] That's a good start, though I'd want a little more idea of the overall effect before I tried it for real. An over-deflection could be worse than no deflection with an actual object heading in our general direction ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I wonder how long before they realize the solar orbit of this asteroid pair has shifted? When DART hit Dimorphos the following things happened: - The barycenter for the two asteroids shifted - The angular momentum for Dimorphos changed, which has an impact on the primary's angular momentum - Dimorphos is lighter now These three add up to a changed solar orbit for the pair. It'll take time to detect this but it had to change because of the gravitational interaction between the two.
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With these types of experiments I can't help but think sooner or later we'll seriously harm a hidden civilisation somehow and they'll get back to us and take revenge. :~ I watch too many movies ;P
V.
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BBC News[^] That's a good start, though I'd want a little more idea of the overall effect before I tried it for real. An over-deflection could be worse than no deflection with an actual object heading in our general direction ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
they just need to throw bigger rocks at it.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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BBC News[^] That's a good start, though I'd want a little more idea of the overall effect before I tried it for real. An over-deflection could be worse than no deflection with an actual object heading in our general direction ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
It worked once. Given the path and speed, no dart is going to make an impact. Even if it does, it's not like the same result is guaranteed; depends on a lot of stuff. Now, I'm more enjoying sitting back and watching NASA getting kicked out of the ISS.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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With these types of experiments I can't help but think sooner or later we'll seriously harm a hidden civilisation somehow and they'll get back to us and take revenge. :~ I watch too many movies ;P
V.
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It worked once. Given the path and speed, no dart is going to make an impact. Even if it does, it's not like the same result is guaranteed; depends on a lot of stuff. Now, I'm more enjoying sitting back and watching NASA getting kicked out of the ISS.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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What you are pointing out is a variation of rule #1 of testing (whoever created it - it was one of the bigshots; at the moment, I do not remember who): Testing can prove the presence, not the absence of errors.
trønderen wrote:
Testing can prove the presence, nor the absence of errors.
I never claimed it would nor could? Stop implying. I will say again that it is a matter of budget, nothing more or else.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
