Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @05:30AM from the what-could-go-wrong? dept.

geekmansworld writes "The Chinese want to capture an asteroid into earth's orbit and mine it. From the article: 'At first glance, nudging an asteroid closer to Earth seems like one of those "what could possible go wrong" scenarios that we generally try and avoid, and for good reason: large asteroid impacts are bad times. The Chinese, though, seem fairly optimistic that they could tweak the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid by just enough (a change in velocity of only about 1,300 feet-per-second or so) to get it to temporarily enter Earth orbit at about twice the distance as the Moon.'"

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One more thing China by suso · 2011-08-31 05:46 · Score: 0, Flamebait

*Stop port scanning me
*Stop sending me spam
*Stop trying to hack my servers
*Stop firewalling the Internet
*Stop polluting so much
*Stop allowing human trafficking
*Stop oppressing your people
*On and on...
If you can't get a handle on these things, have you any hope on controlling an asteroid?