Thursday, February 4, 2010

Russia in a project against Asteroids

It is already time for they to take into consideration and seriously this type of things. Especially if it is a question of saving the humanity, it is better to invest in this that in weapon or Nuclear bombs for our extermination. All the Countries should do joint projects of this type to safeguard the humanity.

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Russia is developing the project of an orbital platform destined to assemble military satellites capable of attacking targets in Earth and of neutralizing threats of impact of asteroids, as he informed this Wednesday the spatial corporation Energy.

“These special cosmic devices will be able to be used for the observation of territories and of the air space, as well as for the computer coverage in areas of natural disasters and local conflicts”, told the president of Energy, Vitali Lopota, during a scientific conference in Moscow. “they will be crucial to locate military targets and they will have attack capacity”, and also they will be able to be used “inside a terrestrial integral system destined to repel threats of impact of asteroids and comets”.

But it still stays for this Technology, since until 2017 they will not begin taking place in mass, meanwhile it stays to keep on investigating new forms and the way of improving this project. Also they indicated of a possible Orbital platform of Nuclear Propulsion, with reactors of a potency of between 150 and 500 kilowatts and with two Antennas 20 meters In diameter.

In 1908 an asteroid called Tunguska destroyed more than 2.000 hectares in Siberia. Another Asteroid called Apophis will happen in 2029 close to the Earth, with 270 meters in diameter, at our 30.000 kilometers distance, lower than that of the satellites and threat in spite of crashing in the Earth to his return, about 2036. This impact would have a devastating effect superior to that of several thousands of atomic bombs, what according to some means would convert into desert a comparable territory to that of France.

For all this it is necessary to take the road towards our safety, because any calculation mistake might to be fatal.

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