I'm talking about one that is big enough to set the whole planet on fire and block out the sun.
If not, do you think anyone would be able to survive underground with enough food and water? I know the government probably has these kind of facilities deep underground.
2007-03-10 13:31:56 · 9 answers · asked by Dan 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Assuming they could survive the impact underground. Eventually they would probably run out of food and water because it would take a long time for the atmosphere to clear.
2007-03-10 13:33:17 · update #1
But if you had a life time supply of food and water underground, couldn't you live the rest of your life underground?
2007-03-10 13:45:52 · update #2
At this time our technology can not stop or in any way affect an asteroid headed our way. Some effort is being applied to developing some kind of technology so hopefully when the Big One starts in towards us we'll be able to at least deflect it away from Earth.
Being underground and protected from the initial impact would do nothing more than delay one's death. If the object that impacts is on the order of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs our entire global civilization would completely be left in ruins.
2007-03-10 13:39:45 · answer #1 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would take one that was about 7-10 miles in diameter, and hitting land, to be an extinction-level-event. We probably wouldn't have much in the way of sunlight for the next 12-18 months afterward.
We're looking for rocks large enough to hit us, but we haven't found all of them yet... The answer to your question depends largely on how much lead-time we have. If we find a rock that isn't going to hit us for 20 years, we have a much better chance of stopping it than if we find one that is going to hit in 3 months, for example.
2007-03-10 13:37:56 · answer #2 · answered by Slappy McStretchNuts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of the government is already hiding many secrets and techniques from us and that i would not be shocked if an asteroid replaced into heading our way good now. i could choose for to be attentive to yet in spite of this, they have their motives for no longer telling us.
2016-12-14 16:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by ricaurte 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Now you did it! All those suffering from the dreaded Chicken Little Syndrome are gonna be clucking and squawking in mass panic! At least they will forget about 'global warming' for a while.
2007-03-10 14:39:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it could not be stopped. Preliminary designs are being made to craft that could DEFLECT a large asteroid, but the mass and velocity of such a body are too great to stop it.
2007-03-10 13:35:47 · answer #5 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same people are working on this that were so successful in protecting New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina.
Pleasant dreams.
2007-03-10 13:48:04 · answer #6 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think we'd be able to stop it. no, the food and water soon will run out and we'd all starve to death and eventually die.
2007-03-10 13:38:10 · answer #7 · answered by Brenda Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course no,because when it happens we will all have serious fractures and lack of vitamins and sometime die like the dinosaurs did.
2007-03-10 20:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by ren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure NASA has some sort of coverage on it. My boyfriend was saying that they'll blow it up or something.
2007-03-10 13:42:53 · answer #9 · answered by Skyleigh's Mom :)™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋