http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/ Engadget Comments for Explosive data mining robots could be sent to hazardous asteroids http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/
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I agree, I am tired of NASA getting shit. All that money wasted on the war should have went to NASA. I mean at the rate of Global Warming and all these threats from space and stupid wars, we should already be colonizing other planets.]]>Jan 22nd 2007 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/
"doctors appointment??? sure, we have an opening in march of 2009. of course we will have to run it through several committees that don't know anything about medicine, and then there will be the matter of funding..."


in space, vin diesel can hear you scream....]]>Jan 22nd 2007 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/Jan 22nd 2007 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://digg.com/space/NASA_killed_life_on_Mars, http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.html, http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/07/2319247&from=rss). ]]>Jan 22nd 2007 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/
This article says nothing about these bots being used to "break up the asteroid or veer it off course". They would be used to collect data about the structure of the asteroid in order to devise the proper means to push or pull the asteroid off its collision path with Earth.

Blowing up an asteroid would be no small feat, and you can't blow something up by exploding a charge on its surface--at least not something THAT big. All you'd be able to do is make a crater and give it a little nudge.

This entry needs to be on http://www.badastronomy.com]]>Jan 22nd 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/explosive-data-mining-robots-could-be-sent-to-hazardous-asteroid/You can check it out here:
http://www.susansdesign.com/asteroid.htm
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