Paintball in Space....

[emisnug]

Found this on this on the Daily Mail website.... I'm sticking with the Guardian from now on...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2223706/How-paintball-gun-space-deflect-27-gigaton-asteroid-away-Earth.html

 

[TommyK1993]

I would have expected an American to come up with the idea ... not an asian ...

 

[Tom]

Last time I looked MIT was in America
Not making a Daily Mail foreign name assumption are we?

 

[Bradley Marsh]

This is crazy. But somehow I love it, I can invision a remake of 'armegeddon' with the best and brightest being replaced by a mob of disgruntled paintballers flying to space to 'save the day'.

 

[Cook$]

What in the absolute f**k is that nonsense.... photons don't have mass, otherwise you'd be living in one eternal painful frigging paintball game.

F**k. I could be a journalist, getting paid to churn this s**t out. I'd never stop laughing at what I was getting away with.

 

[Cook$]

I've just re-read it. 5 tons of paint fired at an object that weighs 27 BILLION TONS, hoping to divert it's course....

'As the pellets hit the asteroid’s surface, they would burst apart, splattering the space rock with a fine, five-micrometer-layer of paint.'

Yeah, fluids in space, good luck with that.

'For instance, the capsules could be filled with aerosols that, when fired at an asteroid, 'impart air drag on the incoming asteroid to slow it down,' Paek says.'

Air drag in space? New to me.

I hope we've come up with something better than this by the time it becomes a problem. Hell, they seriously would be better off sending Bruce Willis up to deal with it.
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