Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that hit Earth. The aerospace agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited the Planetary Defense plan and on Tuesday published the findings, which include …
"Why are we paying to defend other countries?"
Depending on the size of the impactor, the country it lands on may make no difference. Obviously, if I finished up embedded in downtown Los Angeles, that would be bad for the US in more ways than if Tokyo was it's final destination. Either way, there could be weather and even earthquake events that would do bad things to the US as well as the country being called on to provide aid at the same time.
I wonder if any scientists have worked out what might happen if a medium sized meteor hit close to the San Andreas fault in California or Yellowstone super volcano. I've been to meteor crater in Arizona and could see how the land is puckered from quite a distance off and that wasn't an especially large rock. I need to find the photos and finally stitch together the HDR pano I captured.
A large object impacting the South Pole and shoving all that Antarctic ice onto the sea would raise sea levels by an enormous amount. About 58 metres globally according to:
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/266/how-ice-shelf-loss-drives-sea-level-rise/#:~:text=The%20answer%3A%20The%20Antarctic%20ice,billion%20metric%20tons%20of%20ice.
That would totally destroy every coastal city and inundate vast areas inland (check out the coastal 50 metre contour line for your nation).
In addition the movement of so much water from the pole to the equator would actually have a noticeable effect on the rotation of the planet.
Fingers crossed,
"That would totally destroy every coastal city and inundate vast areas inland (check out the coastal 50 metre contour line for your nation)."
That's only the first effect. If you lived not much further inland and up a few meters from the high tide line, you may wind up with loads of new friends interested in what's in your larder, where your car keys are and if you have anything that would be readily tradable for further supplies. Booze might be useful for that. For more information, read "Lucifer's Hammer" by Niven and Pournelle.
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I promise you when the Trump regime emerges from their nuclear shelters they will blame anyone but themselves.
They won't go in because Trump will deny it is going to hit and say "fake news" to anyone who contradicts him.
The guy didn't even try to protect himself from covid even though he was at an age/weight making him among the most vulnerable. If he'd been infected a month earlier, before the experimental monoclonal antibodies were available and before steroids were known to help he would have died. As it is after he received those treatments he was less than an hour away from being placed on a ventilator before he started to recover.
Its too bad it is named the Herman Cain award rather than the Donald J Trump award.
"single employee ... with help from just one contractor"
A discount Batman and Robin on a clapped out space e-scooter toddling off to combat an imminent NEO threat.
Gotham City was saner, having a more effectual police commissioner than the US has in its leaders or policies.
No reason to be concerned at all. OIG reports are usually high quality because no-one with the power to do anything pays them the slightest bit of attention. On the other hand if the OIG recommended increasing the budget to $2B/year divided between the popular contractors in 50 states then Ted Cruz would be lobbying for it right now.
I suspect that when applying for or managing government funding there is a lot of box ticking, form filling, coordination meetings and other tedious admin and I suspect that some of it might be almost as difficult as rocket engineering. You wouldn't want the scientists and engineers grappling with all that instead of doing the jobs they're qualifed for.
There's some blokes from Sudbury, Ontario on the line for you...
"The ore deposits in Sudbury are part of a large geological structure known as the Sudbury Basin, which are the remnants of a nearly two billion-year-old impact crater"
"The Frood Mine alone accounted for 40 percent of all the nickel used in Allied artillery production during the [second world] war"
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