Tag, you're it

Rabies

BBC News

A $50,000 (£25,000) competition has been launched to find the best way to tag a 400m-wide asteroid.

Well smart people of Boards.ie. Any ideas?

If your idea wins I demand 90% of the prize money.

Could we not just nudge it a little and get it trapped in orbit around earth. Then get a few more asteroids. After a while we it might be possible to play are real life game of Asteroids.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The Apophis space rock is set to make a close pass of Earth in 2029 and scientists would like to confirm that it poses no danger to our world.

What's the point? Global warming will have killed us all off by then anyway...

The Hill Billy

Tie all the Feedback-posting-"Where's my free speech?/Mod are nazis!"-type whingers into a big ball, then make a catapult out of the elastic from their trouser waistbands & fire them into space at the asteroid* to knock it off course.


* - Asteroid may not actually be required for this solution to be executed.

connundrum

Ikky Poo2 wrote:

What's the point? Global warming will have killed us all off by then anyway...

The $50,000 would be the point! You'd live like a millionaire until 2029 with that sort of money!

My Fool Proof idea. Make my cheque out to cash

Spastafarian

Here's what we do:
First, we make a giant triangle shaped spaceship which can be controlled with only a stick and a 2 buttons (one to shoot a blob of white stuff and the other to go into hyperspace).
Then we send our spaceship into space to hunt down the asteroid and break it up into more manageable chunks.

Rabies

Is your name not connundrum ?

connundrum

Rabies wrote:

Is your name not connundrum ?

Yes, but some fools seem to have a problem with me lodging a cheque with 'connundrum' on it..

Maybe it has something to do with me whispering 'Boing boing boing boing' to myself as I hand it over. Who knows

Sparky

Rubber cheques not ftw /0\

User45701

Wow that is kool i didn't know that the "29" had a name yet apophis eh? i like it my fav character in SG1 as well.

Ye apophis will be close one in fact about a year or so ago was there not a report up that it may even pass between the earth and the moon visible from Ireland ? such a close pass will defiantly effect the tides in both the Atlantic and the Irish sea hope it does not do anything to bother our good friends the dutch i love Amsterdam.

anyway who is up for a big pissup the night it passes over? party in my place we can get locked and watch the whole thing

Archeron

Simple methods are always the best. Just make the worlds largest tranquiliser gun, say about the lenght of the port tunnel. Lodge one of those giant industrial deep sea oil drill bits into it (which of course will have a luminous orange tag on it) and just shoot the asteroid at your leisure. It may be advisable to have a spare gun ready on the off chance that the first one misses though. (it may also be advisable to have a large army at the ready in case the aforementioned miss causes some sort of unfortunate intergalactic war)

And if we really want to have fun, make the line out of Grandma's antique diamond tether and see if we can get the asteroid to pull the whole planet on an exciting space adventure.

Stick someone up there and whenever he sees Earth getting closer tell him to yell very loudly

ScumLord

Well it's clear none of ye mongs will win the prize "TAG IT" not blow the fupping thing up.

Feral Mutant

First, we make a giant garbage ball, then we fire it at the asteroid, knocking it off course. Thus solving the problem forever. FOREVER

Alternatively, nuke it to hell.

Nalz

Spastafarian wrote:

Here's what we do:
First, we make a giant triangle shaped spaceship which can be controlled with only a stick and a 2 buttons

...out of cornflakes!?!

Sounds like a plan alright

Gordon

Maybe we should get this guy to place a tracking device on it?

Nalz

Gordon wrote:

Maybe we should get this guy to place a tracking device on it?

hee hee big tall cornflakes man