How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth

jefu writes "In January there seems to have been an incident in which it was thought that an object (asteroid) in space might have hit the earth within a couple of days of being spotted. It did miss, though. This story (from NASA/Ames) talks about the discovery of the object and the process that astronomers went through to determine if the asteroid was or was not a threat."

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Not so..

[glassesmonkey]

It only means that no one has invented a time-travel machine YET.. The way I understand it, IF it is at all possible then you wouldn't be able to be back in time BEFORE the creation of the time-travel machine / worm-hole / space-time effect / quantum-parallel universe traversal.

Re:Not so..

[CAlworth1]

The reasoning is that for most of the time machine scenarios to work, they need to be sort of anchored in time, and by their being there, they allow objects near them to move in terms of time. An example of this could be a vergy large mass, but in a small space, warping space and time around it.

There was a Star trek movie (i forget which one) that involved flying a klingon bird of prey around the sun so fast that time travel was achieved - I have been told that the sun is not of proper mass or size for this to work, but that this was the right general idea. Going by that theory, it may be possibiy to use some kind of singularity that already exists (and has for some time) to travel to the past, and to the object's past, but never before the existence of the object - as you get back that far, there was nothing to help push you back in time...

Re:pfft

[October_30th]

They're all perverted potheads, anyhow.

You say that as if there's something wrong with being a perverted pothead...

Miss Earth?

[fozzmeister]

I've heard of Miss World, but how hot is Miss Earth? is she the Pornstar Miss World? Come to think of it I've never heard of AL00667, perhaps he is one of those mechanical fucking machines you see on the net. yeh that makes sense!