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Here is a question...

What impact, if any ... will this have? I mean... everything has cause and effect, right...

Look what happens when you drop a rock into a glass of water, or the impact of the atom bomb in Japan. ... displacement... Everything has an effect.

I wonder what ripple effect this will have. Not that it would be bad, but just what it will be.
 
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Here is a question...

What impact, if any ... will this have? I mean... everything has cause and effect, right...

Look what happens when you drop a rock into a glass of water, or the impact of the atom bomb in Japan. ... displacement... Everything has an effect.

I wonder what ripple effect this will have. Not that it would be bad, but just what it will be.
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They're predicting that Paris Hilton's popularity will grow.
 
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Here is a question...

What impact, if any ... will this have? I mean... everything has cause and effect, right...

Look what happens when you drop a rock into a glass of water, or the impact of the atom bomb in Japan. ... displacement... Everything has an effect.

I wonder what ripple effect this will have. Not that it would be bad, but just what it will be.
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They say "none".

You're right, it will have an impact.. I guess they believe it is not significant, though.

They were saying because the object is so massive, and what we hit it with so small....

But, even if it changed its course by 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001 degrees or whatever.... that would be an effect nonetheless.

Over a billion years or so, that could be significant. 😉 lol

But if we can do the calculations to hit it in the first place, we should be able to figure out what the consequences of hitting it would be.

Gotta love rocket science.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Here is a question...

What impact, if any ... will this have? I mean... everything has cause and effect, right...

Look what happens when you drop a rock into a glass of water, or the impact of the atom bomb in Japan. ... displacement... Everything has an effect.

I wonder what ripple effect this will have. Not that it would be bad, but just what it will be.
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They say "none".

You're right, it will have an impact.. I guess they believe it is not significant, though.

They were saying because the object is so massive, and what we hit it with so small....

But, even if it changed its course by 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001 degrees or whatever.... that would be an effect nonetheless.

Over a billion years or so, that could be significant. 😉 lol

But if we can do the calculations to hit it in the first place, we should be able to figure out what the consequences of hitting it would be.

Gotta love rocket science.
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Whew! thanks for answering. I figured it would have to have some impact, but I suck at math and science... and worried that it was a stupid Q?

🙂
 
Originally posted by: Eli
They say "none".

You're right, it will have an impact.. I guess they believe it is not significant, though.

They were saying because the object is so massive, and what we hit it with so small....

But, even if it changed its course by 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001 degrees or whatever.... that would be an effect nonetheless.

Over a billion years or so, that could be significant. 😉 lol

But if we can do the calculations to hit it in the first place, we should be able to figure out what the consequences of hitting it would be.

Gotta love rocket science.
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We'd need way more information to be able to tell. There are nearly an infinite number of variables. It's mind boggling.

 
Some really cool photos . . . I was watching a stream so I don't have any to share. Look for to appear in the next couple days. Tommorow's papers, for sure.

it hit basically exactly where they aimed it. Amazing. Bigger explosion than they expected, with great images and other data gathered. One theory is that the impact released some subsurface pressure which would account for the larger explosion.

They'll have images from the hubble, also. Very cool.
 
Originally posted by: colincsl
I think they compared the impact to a mosquito hitting a freighter
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Yeah, lol.. Or was it a jetliner?

Something small I guess.

I think this hunk of whatever is a little larger than we're imagining.
 
Originally posted by: HigherGround
BTW, did Bruce Willis make it this time around?
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We aren't going to call bruce willis until we know for sure whether the trajectory was altered enough for an earth collision. . . .
 
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