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Korea and Japan are not good friends, Japans fault for all the war crimes.
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It is time for the private sector to aid in the search for potentially city-destroying aster0ids and meteors, lawmakers said during a hearing Wednesday (April 10).
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology made the call while hearing from NASA scientists and private-sector aster0ids hunters during a hearing entitled "Threats from Space," with both groups agreeing that something more needs to be done.
"Detecting aster0ids should not be the primary mission of NASA," Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, said at the hearing. "No doubt the private sector will play an important role as well. We must better recognize what the private sector can do to aid our efforts to protect the world." [Meteor Streaks over Russia, Explodes (Photos)]
The meeting Wednesday was the second of three aimed at understanding the threat to Earth posed by aster0ids in space. The first hearing took place in late March, and addressed the ways governmental entities, like NASA and the Air Force, are mitigating the risks posed by close-flying space rocks. The meetings were scheduled in response to a surprise meteor explosion over Russia and the close flyby of aster0ids 2012 DA14 — both of which occurred on Feb. 15.
Astronomers have mapped the orbits of more than 90 percent of the potentially world-ending aster0ids in close proximity to the Earth; however, tracking anything smaller than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) in diameter is more difficult, said Ed Lu, the CEO of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit organization in the early stages of building a near-Earth-object-hunting space telescope scheduled for launch in 2018.
"NASA has not even come close to finding and tracking the 1 million smaller aster0ids that might only just wipe out a city, or perhaps collapse the world economy if they hit in the wrong place," Lu said at the hearing.
B612's space telescope, dubbed Sentinel, will be built to aid in the search for smaller aster0ids near Earth. Less than 10 percent of aster0ids measuring around 459 feet (140 meters) in diameter have been found, while only 1 percent of all a*******s measuring around 131 feet (40 meters) — or "city killer" range — have been tracked, Lu said.
These city-destroying aster0ids are notoriously difficult to track with the ground-based methods used by NASA today because the space rocks are relatively small and dark, said Don Yeomans, the head of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program.
"A dramatic increase in near-Earth aster0ids-discovery efficiencies is achievable using space-based infrared telescopes," Yeomans said at the hearing.
Searching for space rocks in infrared light — as the $240 million Sentinel is expected to do — could allow astronomers to find a larger number of smaller objects that are too dark to be seen in visible light, Yeomans said.
A space-based aster0ids hunter is also helpful because it can seek out space rocks at all hours of the day, as opposed to just at night, Yeomans added.
All of these hunting efforts should be put in place to find near-Earth objects well before they could hit the Earth, the panelists said.
At the moment, we have the technology to deflect an aster0ids, but scientists won't be able to use those methods without ample time to implement them, Michael A'Hearn, an astronomer working with the National Research Council, said at the hearing.
But first, the aster0ids have to be found, Lu said.
"You can't deflect an aster0ids that you haven't yet tracked," Lu said. "Our technology is useless against something we haven't yet found."
Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.
Told you!!!!
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology made the call while hearing from NASA scientists and private-sector aster0ids hunters during a hearing entitled "Threats from Space," with both groups agreeing that something more needs to be done.
"Detecting aster0ids should not be the primary mission of NASA," Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, said at the hearing. "No doubt the private sector will play an important role as well. We must better recognize what the private sector can do to aid our efforts to protect the world." [Meteor Streaks over Russia, Explodes (Photos)]
The meeting Wednesday was the second of three aimed at understanding the threat to Earth posed by aster0ids in space. The first hearing took place in late March, and addressed the ways governmental entities, like NASA and the Air Force, are mitigating the risks posed by close-flying space rocks. The meetings were scheduled in response to a surprise meteor explosion over Russia and the close flyby of aster0ids 2012 DA14 — both of which occurred on Feb. 15.
Astronomers have mapped the orbits of more than 90 percent of the potentially world-ending aster0ids in close proximity to the Earth; however, tracking anything smaller than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) in diameter is more difficult, said Ed Lu, the CEO of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit organization in the early stages of building a near-Earth-object-hunting space telescope scheduled for launch in 2018.
"NASA has not even come close to finding and tracking the 1 million smaller aster0ids that might only just wipe out a city, or perhaps collapse the world economy if they hit in the wrong place," Lu said at the hearing.
B612's space telescope, dubbed Sentinel, will be built to aid in the search for smaller aster0ids near Earth. Less than 10 percent of aster0ids measuring around 459 feet (140 meters) in diameter have been found, while only 1 percent of all a*******s measuring around 131 feet (40 meters) — or "city killer" range — have been tracked, Lu said.
These city-destroying aster0ids are notoriously difficult to track with the ground-based methods used by NASA today because the space rocks are relatively small and dark, said Don Yeomans, the head of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program.
"A dramatic increase in near-Earth aster0ids-discovery efficiencies is achievable using space-based infrared telescopes," Yeomans said at the hearing.
Searching for space rocks in infrared light — as the $240 million Sentinel is expected to do — could allow astronomers to find a larger number of smaller objects that are too dark to be seen in visible light, Yeomans said.
A space-based aster0ids hunter is also helpful because it can seek out space rocks at all hours of the day, as opposed to just at night, Yeomans added.
All of these hunting efforts should be put in place to find near-Earth objects well before they could hit the Earth, the panelists said.
At the moment, we have the technology to deflect an aster0ids, but scientists won't be able to use those methods without ample time to implement them, Michael A'Hearn, an astronomer working with the National Research Council, said at the hearing.
But first, the aster0ids have to be found, Lu said.
"You can't deflect an aster0ids that you haven't yet tracked," Lu said. "Our technology is useless against something we haven't yet found."
Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.
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Gotta agree. Brilliant Video.
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Can anyone tell me if they find this picture offensive ?
One of the mods on H-T has just deleted a post of mine with it in lol.
Dunno where it went...
Arrrrr, here it is....
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l always thought these were pretty hilarious.
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/
But I don't think N. Korea should be underestimated, they might not have the technology but they have a whole army of brainwashed muppets that would die for the cause.
In case of a war a lot of lives would be lost in the south (in the north alike). Also, there is no way to know for sure how china would react, they are also unpredictable.
Just let it be, at some point it will resolve itself, it will take a while and be bloody no doubt, but the people there have to want the change. Like what is happening now in Syria but without the radical islamist influence.
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/
But I don't think N. Korea should be underestimated, they might not have the technology but they have a whole army of brainwashed muppets that would die for the cause.
In case of a war a lot of lives would be lost in the south (in the north alike). Also, there is no way to know for sure how china would react, they are also unpredictable.
Just let it be, at some point it will resolve itself, it will take a while and be bloody no doubt, but the people there have to want the change. Like what is happening now in Syria but without the radical islamist influence.
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A very wise friend of mine once told me
"When ever the Prime Minister comes home from Holiday to hold parliament, War is imminent"
Further more, remember Syria is bordered by Iraq... ( the war on Iraq is making sense now huh )
You'll hear the term "Precision bomb strikes" on the news in the next coming day's.. Just sayin
"When ever the Prime Minister comes home from Holiday to hold parliament, War is imminent"
Further more, remember Syria is bordered by Iraq... ( the war on Iraq is making sense now huh )
You'll hear the term "Precision bomb strikes" on the news in the next coming day's.. Just sayin
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