Can We Stop An Asteroid With Nuke? DEBUNKED
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- An apocalyptic asteroid is on a collision course with our wonderful little planet! What do we do?
Use my code 'DEBUNKED' and get AtlasVPN for 82% OFF + 30 days money back guarantee: atlasv.pn/DEBUNKED Should we send up a nuclear weapon to blow it into pieces! Could we knock the speeding rock off course? Maybe we could tow it in another direction?
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A year later the DART mission has been a succes, so yes the kinetic impactor works
I believe it actually deflected the asteroid even further than the scientists & engineers expected.
nooice thanks save me time i probely woulden't have spent.
Stony type asteroids will likely break up when hitting earth into smaller and smaller pieces, and nuke will make them smaller. I would say that is better then nothing
The level of production of Debunked is admirable!
I love this channel!
Thank you!
It's a good thing we have scientists working on the potential impact problem and not CZcams poll takers. 😅
why so mad
We would better off with youtubers
Something bigger than cities would be beyond the scope of scientists or youtubers
They wouldnt even tell us ..if they even knew...theres a big sky and we barely know whats coming from certain angles....0 from others
You know scientists make many mistakes too
There might be a rogue Black hole heading straight to the Earth by 250,000 kmh that NASA hides to avoid a chaos fyi. So just live your life our fragile lives are too short to worry about crap.
Your narrating ability and these animations explaining this concept were a treat to watch❤
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
@@DebunkedOfficial could we use lasers to destory them?
@@michaelhawkins7389 idk
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I would really hope that if it came to it, the countries of the world would come together and agree to allow nuclear weapons in space if it was to save the species from devasation.
But hopefully no country will "forget" an unused one there after successfully deflecting the asteroid...
Before Covid, I would have been sure that people would work together to save the world. Now I'm pretty sure that a good quarter of people will just deny it is there.
@@kg4wwn Good point. Conspiracy theorists are abundant and astonishingly stupid.
@@kg4wwn Whatever you do, 'Don't Look Up'. 🤨😏😂
Yea I'm pretty sure they'd agree to an amendment to treaty so save the entire frigging planet. I'd like to think so anyway.
I love this channel, The narration is great, the animations are top rate and the research that goes into them is outstanding. Keep it up team!
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Thanks so much
@@DebunkedOfficial and again I like your replying concept this very encouraging for me to get a reply from a youtuber who's working so hard and deserves more 😉
The sad part is, there would be people who think it's fake (even people in government) and do everything possible to prevent anything being done to stop the asteroid
That’s why I think that experts shouldn’t say anything. Just so that something productive can get done. 😅
@@angelicanavarro5311 The experts don't have the power to stop things. They have to tell the idiots in power what's happening so they can handle it or chose not to
@@angelicanavarro5311 Experts need resources to do what they need to, & unfortunately, it's usually those shortsighted idiots in power with those resources.
That's exactly what happens in the movie Don't look up.
@@Humulator i was about to say 😂
Imagine taking a nap on a sofa only for a random rock to hit you from out of nowhere.
Isn't it weird that Apophis' nearest flyby is on a Friday the 13th?
I thought that too 🤔
Dirty snowballs sounds like an happy hour drink.
😆I thought the same!
I really like these kinds of videos. Keep it up
Thanks for watching!
I remember when I was 6 years old me and my sister where at the Grand Canyon standing about 8 feet apart when a meteorite struck between us. It was flaming hot screaming out of the sky and embedded in the ground about 3 feet in and we dug it out it was only about the size of half a penny by the time we got it out but was amazingly cool and we didn’t realize it should have been terrifying.
no it didn't happen
Wow that’s so true! It’s like the time I swallowed a nuclear bomb that somehow ended up in my hotdog! Stop making up stories
r/thathappened
I remember when I was 6 years old. Me and my sister **were** at the Grand Canyon standing about 2 centimeters apart when a horse-sized meteor landed right between us. I was so terrified until I realised this didn't actually happen and I was making a word salad for CZcams likes.
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4:46 ...and it's radius stretches nearly 1 mile...(Illustrates by drawing the diameter)
Otherwise great video👍
I'd like to thank u for using both imperial and international measurement systems.
It's hard for us who don't use imperial system to have a reference. It's nice when the videomaker already converts it in the video.
the animation in this channel is severely underrated
Thank you for using the metric system in the explanations. No sarcasm intended
Good thing DART worked 😂
Soooo, Our moon casualy have 100% dodge chance for huge meteorites, I love it XDD
I'd love to hear the science behind how a 100 foot long object hitting another object with a 25,000 mile circumference can cause major damage. It akin to tossing a grain of sand at a basketball.
What's your favorite Asteroid/Comet Movie?
Don't Look Up!
I don't have any but I do like the space movie 'interstellar'
I havent watched a lot of movies so ima say none
Deep Impact and Armageddon
Maximum overdrive
Don't blow it up. Nudge it
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Only way to stop an asteroid is with a weapon called "Saitama".
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Most people tells, "They put a weakspots on the asteroid to go boom".
Before it reached the earth's orbit.
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Jippie! If we need to deflect a astreoid we need to pait it into a yin and yang or drive a spaceship into it.
The test was successful 👍🏼
prob nuking it from the side to change the direction would make more sense, but you still would have to do a lot of calculations to estimate how strong the nuke has to be
Here's my estimation prior to watching the video: A nuclear explosion primary produces heat and radiation. The reason why it is so dangerous on earth is because radiation kills living creatures, heat sets stuff on fire and heat produces a huge blast damage as it displaces air pretty quickly (hot air expands and needs more space), causing a massive shock wave in all directions, just to almost leave a vacuum at the center seconds later, causing a air to rush back to the center at hurricane speed level and this fresh air is fuel to everything set on fire, causing a massive firestorm.
But in space, there is no air. In space there won't be a shock wave. In space you cannot set things on fire. And a piece of rock doesn't care for radiation. So the only effect left is the plasma heat ball at the center that can melt rock, but melting rock won't destroy it, the damage is probably tiny in comparison to what would happen on earth. Unless you drill a hole into that thing and place some nukes near its center, you cannot break it apart by nukes. And even if you break it apart, you just turned a single big rock into multiple smaller ones, which may not help that much if all the smaller ones still hit the earth and are still too big to vaporize in the atmosphere.
Not that many facts on nukes but I feel that my estimation is more or less confirmed. One method the video did not cover is placing one or more rocket thrusters on the surface of the asteroid that keep emitting thrust at specific intervals to slowly change its curse or its speed. So instead of relying on a single heavy impact, exploding nukes, thermal forces (spray paint) or a gravity pull, you do the same thing that objects like satellites or the ISS regularly have to do: Adjusting course with conventional thrusters. The thrust may seem tiny in comparison to such a huge object but slow and steady wins the race. Keep in mind that changing the course or speed only a tiny bit will have a huge effect after this object has traveled several millions of kilometers.
We will need to find Inuyashiki and Shishigami to destroy the asteroid.
A couple of points: On the asteroid pieces "burning up in the atmosphere" idea. Even if you could assure that none them are large enough to make it to the surface, there is still a problem. A largish asteroid would still have a ton of kinetic energy and burning up in the air just means that it is pumping that energy into the atmosphere, which can still have disruptive ecological effects, disrupting weather patterns etc.
And while the animations dealing with deflection of the asteroid all showed them being pushed to the side, depending on the trajectory of the asteroid, this might not always be the best choice. The Earth itself is a moving target, traveling its own diameter is in ~ 7 min. So, it might be more effective to "slow down" the asteroid, so that by the time it crosses the Earth's orbit, the Earth has already moved past that point. In addition, thrust applied along an orbiting object's velocity vector is the most efficient in terms of effecting that orbit.
That being said, it must also be pointed out that the Earth is a bigger "target" than its physical size alone. The Earth's own gravity will deflect an incoming asteroid towards us, causing one that would miss otherwise to hit. How close the asteroid's unaltered path has to be to the Earth depends on the relative velocity. In this case, a slower asteroid is worse, as the Earth's gravity will have more time to bend its trajectory towards us.
Thanks for this vid. Dont look up made me legitimately concern
Any given asteroid could be deflected by hitting it with earth based lasers in sufficient strength. Laser hits side of rock, heating it and thereby producing course altering thrust. When the lasers are not busy deflecting armageddon, they could be used to clear up orbital space debris by vaporizing it. Plus I could use them to carve my name on the moon.
Earth's atmosphere would interfere with the laser (light diffusion) diminishing it's performance, so they should be ultrapowerful to compensate. Aside the power consumption, the effects on the atmosphere would aggravate current global warming (plus all the radiation caused by air ionization). It would be better to have them in orbit. But again, putting a power plant powerful enough in orbit is a no go nowadays.
@This The nature of a laser beam is that it doesn't spread out as much as natural light sources. Inverse square law largely does not apply. It would be quite practical to build a suite of beams which focused the majority of their energy on a rock out in space. It's not necessary to heat the rock to 2k either. At a great enough distance we need only provide a small amount of thrust. As an example, both Voyager probes are now significantly off course due to the thrust caused by a few degrees of radiant heat from their power cells. The energy of a hair dryer has effectively steered an interstellar spacecraft. Right now, we daily fire a gigawatt laser at the moon for the laser reflector experiment left by Apollo. If there was indeed a dinosaur killer rock, we would certainly create a network of ground based "deathstar" lasers to heat and deflect it. Assuming of course we detected it with enough advance notice - years/decades.
@@joanjlopezrondoni8273 Why are we using lasers on earth if we could set them uuup on tthe Moon? Moon has literally zero atmosphere to intervene and a nuclear reactor powered laser would probably provide enough energy. Maintenance can be done by robots like the ones on the mars. Dunno but that sounds like a legit good idea to me, or I am just too high.
We don't have a laser anywhere close to that capacity, and NO ONE wants to see Fred engraved on the moon, especially spelled wrong
@@phred196 Lol. You have no idea what you're talking about. The inverse square law still applies to lasers without a culminating lens. There is a very real effect of beam divergence with lasers.
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I think the best way is to have some guy do 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run every single day for 3 years. And have that guy punch it away.
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Now iam going to share this information with my friends and act cool
2:12 sounds like foe when you say pho
9:34 Nuking an asteroid is an example of fixing a problem with another problem.
Why?
It really depends . Getting hit with a bunch of 100 ft meteors is better than one massive three mile wide meteor . Definitely better for smaller pieces .
Yea I would've thought so too, although scientists who study this sort of thing tend to think it would be just as bad, if not worse.
Thanks for this info lol
i think in the instance of a big rock coming to earth, the no nukes in space treaty can go out the window
What if we could install parachute and thruster motor to slow down the meteor descend. Free metal, and probably a space archeological relic.
Meteor fishnet system.
great video
If planet killers come every 50M years, and the last one killed the dinos, than we are well overdue for the next one. 🙈
Build a miniature death Star
It was funny in 2013 when that Russian meteor hit because there was a scare about another asteroid that people thought might hit and I wake up to headline “asteroid explodes over Russia injurying dozens”
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I vote we mine them into useful metals etc, then put those useful metals into orbit, turning a threat into a profit
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you got a new fan
Bro really explained the movie Armageddon in 5 seconds
We should also worry about anything that passing stars shove from the oorb cloud into the inner solar system
1:19 I HOPE NO 1 WAS LIVING ON THAT STATION! OOF!
you don't destroy it, you nudge it.
Of course Oumuamua showed a wrinkle in all our plans.
So if a hypothetical asteroid were to hit earth. The United Nations would _still NOT_ allow nukes in space to off set the trajectory? Talk about dumb.
Chelyabinsk:
60 feet of rock
Mach 55
525 kilotons of tnt equivalent
Holy
Jesus
Ive got to mention that apophis is best mining operation target as its not too massive to move nor too lightweight to not be worth hundreds of million dollars of budget to send a rocket to space to slow it down to orbit earth
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I wonder if it would be possible to drill a hole in one of the asteroid’s poles, fill it with ice, and put in a heating element, in effect giving it a rocket engine to change it’s course.
Well at that point why not just use rocket , better than lugging up water and a heating element and a drill but your idea is definitely clever and would work, at least it would definitely change the course of the asteroid
@@devdecker7812 , If the asteroid already contains ice which I believe it does contain a certain percentage, the fuel is already there. It might work even better on comets.
@@davidgardner863 if the ice is already there definitely would make your idea easier , I still feel just landing a rocket on it with another rocket to push it would easier and simpler
@@davidgardner863
That would be a comet instead,
Asteroid is mainly rock 🪨, comet is mainly ice 🧊
@@MP-vc4nu , Meteorites are found to contain up to 25% water and earth may have acquired much of its water from asteroids during the late heavy bombardment.
*Panik*
We spot a hazardous asteroid with no time to stop it
*Kalm*
It doesn't do much damage
*Panik*
It's carrying super-ultra-mega durable, super-strong, blind, super-fast, ultra-aggressive extra-terrestrials
That 43% is America as a whole. They like things that go boom.
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Holy shit I’ll never look at a shooting stars the same again now I’m just gonna view them as interplanetary space soaring hot rock hazardous missiles
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What about a small nuke we put into orbit that like the same asteroids follow each gaining speed every couple of years. Then when we find something that needs our attention we just redirect it toward the asteroid?
Space is cool
If you want the long version, watch Armageddon 1996.
We dont have antimatter bombs to vaporise the comet
Don't worry Steve Carell, John Malkovich, Jimmy O. Yang, and everybody at Space Force are working on it, just wait Season 3.
Would you rather get shot by a .50 caliber armor piercing bullet from 100 yards or a shotgun with bird shot? One will kill you, the other not. Choose Wisely.
At least NASA is testing that self-defense satellites
In other words, we're screwed.
Come on hit us! We all deserve it!
We kinda know how to stop an asteroid, but we don't know how to stop Putin.
Made me smile
Glad to hear it won't happen in the next 100 years^^
Oh, those poor dinosaurs.. Please make a video about mass extinction too !
Aha, we actually have one in production!
if a real huge one was coming for real, we would have nothing left to lose and would have to try anything
People forget that on earth, 90% of the damage of a nuke is from the blast, in space there is no such effect since there is no air! The effects would be short range and secondary predominantly due to heat and radiation. As many have pointed out, the nuke woul have to burrow below the surface leading, at best, to fragmentation of the "boleid". Not very useful.
Bruce Willis+nukes=problem solved
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Those aren't meteors, those are meteorites
The movie don’t look up is what’s wrong! We’re so busy with controlling each other to notice a rock the size of a school bus that’s been on its way to earth for a hundred years but at least this should stop all the bickering
I don't see the solar sail idea where you we use solar winds to move the asteroid from hitting earth and sailing in into the sun so it can't come back toward earth ever again.
Me:NASA DART will do
Hold on what would happen again
I hope Simon won’t be offended if he finds out I’m watching another channel
that is not the question. after detonating a nuclear weapon on an asteroid WILL IT CREATE A BLACK HOLE?
You asking the question shows you are clueless about black holes.
I mean, I can not find any rope weapons for kids on Amazon on Amazon!
If detected with enough time why not simply strap it with ionic thrusters?
I don't know if I'm crazy but wouldn't acid work, like acid bombs to i don't know accelerate the process of burning the meteor before it enters our atmosphere... just think about it
No, because Earth must be punished ☄️🌎