Changing the course of the solar system | Ed Lu | TEDxMarin

[@prashantkashyap4387]

this mission is for humanity by the humanity. special thanks to these guys.

[@zapfanzapfan]

2020 now and is it even being built yet? Despite Chelyabinsk happening less than a year after this talk.

[@KhanAndMrPointyEars]

Not to bring down the mood, but this project was cancelled. NEOCam might replace it.

[@tinnitusthenight5545]

Not a project... a mission

[@ADerpyReality]

Ikr?

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Because they found something much better right?......RIGHT?!

[@ch4.hayabusa]

NASA cut the funding for the project. NASA's sweetheart JPL was working on a similar satellite called NEOcam, which will launch in 2021. Three other unrelated satellites with the Sentinel name have launched.

[@milescroberts]

Wonderful stuff. Thanks for being an awesome astronaut Dr. Lu!

[@Chlorate299]

This is the single most important endeavour in human history.

[@eastcastleg9799]

They are truly world saver, really! Many many many THAAAAAAAAANKS!

[@danicaremy9765]

Busy getting to work to really save the earth, Ed keep telling the story!

[@Tagreese]

Us: look an asteroid ... we've deflected it !! Madara: what about the second one?

[@RECTmetal]

That guy is my hero for doing this shit. That's awesome!

[@drdalewisely]

That's the thing. It doesn't have to be that large to wipe us out. You got your mass. Then you got your velocity. (A very small bullet can ruin a human body's whole day.)

[@61barrackroad]

Fascinating project,best of luck to all involved.Great presentatiin btw :)

[@TahreyUK]

Whilst I applaud the idea and effort, I can only assume either he missed a zero off those figures, or the announcement caused a rush by more official agencies to get birds in the air doing the same job. Last I looked into it, at the start of this year, there were nearly 500,000 known solar system objects, very nearly all of which would class as asteroids (planets + dwarf planets + moons + comets + man made satellites count for less than 10,000). The detection rate of which has been steadily increasing since the 1980s, but still easily 200,000 of which would have been known about in 2012. There are also at least three other similar missions currently operating, and going by how many discoveries have been credited to them, they're either operating at a rate greater than 10,000 a month, or have been on-mission for more than six years. Still a shame that this got cancelled however. That extra 10k detections, even if they merely confirmed the sightings of the other missions with additional data to help better pin down the trajectories of known objects, would have been extremely useful :-/

[@Bischlarbo69]

THANK YOU sincerely

[@sheepvomit69]

10:12 = my thoughts exactly

[@gglobot]

2018 almost ended ... how is it going ?

[@williamhe1967]

NASA cancelled the project's funding in 2015

[@libertyndjustice4all]

How do we donate?

[@sheepvomit69]

Thanks for existing you bunch of geniuses. Now I can go back to bed.

[@MrGrapha]

i love the story

[@tinnitusthenight5545]

6:46 KZbin video encoding: "Oh you thought you were gonna put one million little dots on the screen? Hey Barbara get a load of this guy over here and his millions of dots, Lord that is rich!"

[@dave0161]

Sad this never worked out

[@divyamarkande35]

“Asteroids are Nature’s way of saying - ‘Hey how’s that space program going?’ “ 😛

[@konradcomrade4845]

i would still prefer a privately owned space-telescope up there (infrared and in interplanetary orbit) , and running independently of the CIA and the USA-military industrial complex. You never know! , unless You know Yourself.

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

5:47 I want to know more about that asteroid map. And why does he keep referring to a "green line"?

[@karldilkington8587]

10:10 Dr. Lu: "We're taking action to prevent the extinction of humanity." Humanity: "Thanks."

[@NNNewguy]

See you NEXT year

[@BAYR4CC]

this guy played Kerbal Space Program with scott Manley

[@itzjcee557]

Just saw the vid and it was awesome, thanks for that Dr Lu. To bad NASA terminated the project, it would have been out of this world!!

[@alleneverhart4141]

Let's do launch! When and where?

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

You hit it and...........it splits in two.......bugger!, or you nudge it and it comes in quicker lol

[@karthikckrishna]

Great work Dr Lu... but I think It's not the asteroid... it is us

[@kingmasterlord]

Deflect them into lunar orbit. Build a ring of building materials

[@swamianupamanand4673]

It's greatly informative!

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

Resolution quality at 6:52 : potato.

[@coweatsman]

Title misleading. I imagined something bigger, moving the solar system, not just an object within it.

[@edferd100]

Wrong. The Tunguska object didn't strike the ground, it was an air burst.

[@chrisbraid2907]

How many New unrecorded moon impacts in the last twenty years?

[@fireofenergy]

Multiple infrared observing platforms, looking outwards from say, somewhere in-between Mercury and Venus. That's what the BFR is for.

[@checkma8s]

But the true danger are the people living in this earth not from the outside forces

[@TheRobertotonet]

OK!

[@WDEMMEL]

Wow, and as soon as we have the data collected, we can use it to deflect asteroids onto other countries. that will happen with this research before a single asteroid will be defected to protect earth.

[@boots4yew]

I'm no astronomer but just at a guess, I'd think that deflecting asteroids to entirely miss the Earth would be far easier than trying to aim one precisely at any particular location on Earth since the asteroid maneuvering would have to be done years in advance.

[@iamsuperfritz]

We can already destroy the earth about a thousand times over. Personally I'm more worried about that with trump in office and rick perry in charge of the nukes.

[@jasonlajoie]

Yet another very fine example as to why the U.S. doesn't even need a Federal Government.

[@Grumszy]

What's the odds of that space machine being hit by an asteroid?

[@TrippleOBigger]

Do you reckon that there could be an asteroid out there, as big, or bigger, than the earth? And could potentially wipe out all life on earth, on impact?

[@1DwtEaUn]

Would not take anything near that large to wipe out all life, gotta keep in mind kinetic energy goes up cubed in relation to speed. So something coming in at 24,000 MPH+ packs a lot of kinetic energy compared to its relative (to earth) mass. Now completely destroying the earth into asteroids or a collection of moons would take a lot more mass than ending all life, one estimate of the former was needing something with approx. 60% earth mass.

[@Bobfermasan]

Maybe you should consider Earth as an asteroid slamming into another planet..

[@hidgik]

You mean a TedX delivery van.

[@VickneswaranSubramaniam]

i am sure they are going to mine the feasible ones............2

[@philbuglass4857]

Ok, so it's 2018 - where is it?

[@DalecarliaAstro]

Phil Buglass NASA sadly cancelled their foundings because JPL are developing their own verison called NEOcam. Its launch date is set to 2021.

[@struggler875]

Space force shot it down

[@chinette5]

Go to b612foundation

[@coleporto4415]

If you are searching for a real education about life in the universe and the meaning behind the ET intervention in the world, look up the Allies of Humanity Briefings, free online.

[@mrfurball]

He's obviously a supervillain in disguise... Bruce Willis will be the only one to be capable of stopping a asteroid if Chuck Norris just happens to be busy , second thing genius ,that's obviously a ASTEROID MAGNETIZER PULLER INNER DEVICE not a telescope and lastly ... I DO want to be a T REX right after wanting to be a ninja turtle... TURTLE POWER...

[@russellnc]

this project was cancelled...see wiki...

[@kallithdragonna]

YUP!! Add a humungeous Thank You from me, but also for my kids(both in early 20's) and hopefully my upcoming grand and great-grand children, etc. etc.. Concidering the damage another 1908 size crash alone would have on any country today, let alone one like the dinosaur killer. I am truly shocked that the UN hasn't tried to get multiple countries to do something similar. Almost seems like a plan that could have piggybacked Reagan's Starwars project, Or even the U.S.A's 'Umbrella' program against being bombed. Let alone other places who would .suffer worse destruction if the asteroid was bigger that the city... blimmy! Bigger than the country!!!?! Scary thoughts eh? Now you wondeering why it isnt up there yet?

[@geoffreylee5199]

Give measurements in metric.

[@SkyKing1717]

Hey...shit happens! Would you care anymore if you got hit by a Mack truck while driving to work tomorrow than say....getting cream-puffed by some asteroid? And what are your chances of getting hit by a truck some day vs. that of getting hit by some asteroid?

[@andrewbatham9754]

Why does everyone keep laughing?

[@JuanRomeroAbelleira]

Holy mother of skypants. Thank you for looking out for us. You deserve many sexual partners and cupcakes.

[@pahoboye]

could have been a space craft which flattened that forest in 1908

[@TrustINseven]

LOL.. it locks like the asteroids prefere to nuke Europe, Austrlia and the USA...

[@connorfalcon7080]

Lol we are gonna buy a rocket from space X. like he is going to buy a car or something

[@tiffanyroller9477]

Connor Falcon it's exactly like that. Rocketry has become competitive and commercial.

[@24kGoldenRocket]

$150 Million is the price that Elon Musk charges for a rocket mission the last time I checked.. If he raised $350 Million then he can afford the Falcon 9 to LEO; Then he'd have to buy a booster for the Hohman transfer to Solar Orbit. Elon will probably help him out if he has not already.

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[@nonamehere386]

I don't see what is so damn funny. Wtf is the crowd always laughing at? Our species is doomed.

[@benndei5099]

why don't you say Jesus take the well

[@kellwng]

this will also prove the Bible, because God put everything in motion He know where everything is,. If man starts messing with things we shouldn't. Rev 8:10-11 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

[@ronpiretti2847]

Moron.

[@jonwizard3989]

Wonderful - and cheaper than bruce willis.