NASA Launches Telescope to Track Cosmic Threats

[Jimbeaux]

Pretty interesting IMO:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/12/14/wise.spac...

[nelly1]

Oh goody, another potential scare story for when the MMGW Juggernaut eventually runs out of fuel.

Asteroid tax anyone?

[thinfourth2]

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

[jmorgan]

Don't know what is worse, knowing its coming or wondering what the noise is. At least the latter will give you less time to panic.....


More interested in how it performs though and the results it could give (non doom and gloom related).

[Jimbeaux]

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

[MiniMan64]

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

And none of them involve Bruce Willis

I am loving some of the new telescopes NASA are sticking up into orbit to have a look around, currently putting together some work on extra-solar planets for our universities planeterium so it's going to be interesting to see what Kepler finds out there.

[Jimbeaux]

MiniMan64 said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

And none of them involve Bruce Willis

I am loving some of the new telescopes NASA are sticking up into orbit to have a look around, currently putting together some work on extra-solar planets for our universities planeterium so it's going to be interesting to see what Kepler finds out there.

Agreed! I have not looked into specifics yet and am wondering, is this an advanced scope to the Hubble or an entirely different horse for another course?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 15th December 01:00

[Diderot]

Jimbeaux said:

MiniMan64 said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

And none of them involve Bruce Willis

I am loving some of the new telescopes NASA are sticking up into orbit to have a look around, currently putting together some work on extra-solar planets for our universities planeterium so it's going to be interesting to see what Kepler finds out there.

Agreed! I have not looked into specifics yet and am wondering, is this an advanced scope to the Hubble or an entirely different horse for another course?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 15th December 01:00

Another funding stream.

[Jimbeaux]

Diderot said:

Jimbeaux said:

MiniMan64 said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

And none of them involve Bruce Willis

I am loving some of the new telescopes NASA are sticking up into orbit to have a look around, currently putting together some work on extra-solar planets for our universities planeterium so it's going to be interesting to see what Kepler finds out there.

Agreed! I have not looked into specifics yet and am wondering, is this an advanced scope to the Hubble or an entirely different horse for another course?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 15th December 01:00

Another funding stream.

Are you saying it is funded from another set of funds or another way of gathering funds?

[Diderot]

Jimbeaux said:

Diderot said:

Jimbeaux said:

MiniMan64 said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

And none of them involve Bruce Willis

I am loving some of the new telescopes NASA are sticking up into orbit to have a look around, currently putting together some work on extra-solar planets for our universities planeterium so it's going to be interesting to see what Kepler finds out there.

Agreed! I have not looked into specifics yet and am wondering, is this an advanced scope to the Hubble or an entirely different horse for another course?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 15th December 01:00

Another funding stream.

Are you saying it is funded from another set of funds or another way of gathering funds?

Yup, another way of gathering more funds.

[Jimbeaux]

Diderot said:

Jimbeaux said:

Diderot said:

Jimbeaux said:

MiniMan64 said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

Not much point in tracking them as there is pretty much bugger all we can do about it apart from stick our heads between our legs and kiss our arse goodbye

Actually, there is quite a handful of options to deter something coming our way.

And none of them involve Bruce Willis

I am loving some of the new telescopes NASA are sticking up into orbit to have a look around, currently putting together some work on extra-solar planets for our universities planeterium so it's going to be interesting to see what Kepler finds out there.

Agreed! I have not looked into specifics yet and am wondering, is this an advanced scope to the Hubble or an entirely different horse for another course?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 15th December 01:00

Another funding stream.

Are you saying it is funded from another set of funds or another way of gathering funds?

Yup, another way of gathering more funds.

Private sources or grants? Both? If so, I still think it has to offer something other scopes do not.

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 15th December 01:08

[MiniMan64]

There are quite a few new scopes going up and already up that are coming online fairly soon, I think we're in for an interesting period of astronomic finds in the next few years. All of the planets discovered so far are pretty massive variations on a gas giants we have in our own system as their mass has made them relatively 'easy' to find by the movement of their stars.

Some of these new scopes should hopefully be able to find some of the smaller ones or even provide some rare direct imaging.