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Re:A planning page for asteroids 2009 FD and 2015 TB145 by Cshelton on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:17PM (#10414991)
It's an entire 1.3 lunar distances away! Don't sweat it! =p

But yeah, if it were a projected impact, the point of impact on Earth would see the largest evacuation ever. And/or we'd bring in the brightest minds and say you have 10 days, failure is not an option and hopefully history books would be made.

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Re:A planning page for asteroids 2009 FD and 2015 TB145 by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:39PM (#10415986)
But you learn more from failure.
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Re:A planning page for asteroids 2009 FD and 2015 TB145 by Cshelton on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:16AM (#10419257)
I take it back lol. At that velocity, we'd be screwed. We have nothing that could get something big enough, to a high enough orbit, and at that velocity...So yeah, it's pretty reassuring lol....
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Re:A planning page for asteroids 2009 FD and 2015 TB145 by molmalo on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:13PM (#10416428)
They could always say: We haven't failed. We just found a way that won't work to not save the human race the next time.
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