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An asteroid will just miss Earth today. We won't always be so lucky
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| September 6, 2014
| Joseph Stromberg
Posted on 09/07/2014 5:37:19 AM PDT by John W
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:37:19 AM PDT
by
John W
To: John W
Bla bla bla bla. Chances of a big enough asteroid hitting Earth are next to nil. The outer big planets are magnetic walls that change the course of most incoming objects away from Earth. The asteroid belt makes rocks coming from outside the solar system shoot off in like flippers on a pinball machine.
The only threats are outside the solar system, they may be on an intercept course for Earth. But the big gravity wells in our solar system change that when they get close enough.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:42:05 AM PDT
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: John W
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:44:01 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: John W
No, man caused climate change will kill us all first, besides these asteroids are just another effect of man caused climate change and could be prevented if we had a socialist world government. (major sarcasm)
To: FreedomStar3028
Uh... there’s tons of old, giant craters all over earth. I’m pretty sure those planets were around then as well.
Also, check the Cheyablinsk(sp?) meteor from last year.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:44:54 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
To: FreedomStar3028
Bla bla bla bla. Chances of a big enough asteroid hitting Earth are next to nil. I'd say the chances are 100% it will get hit sometime in the next billion years.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:46:07 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: John W
The meteorite posing the greatest existential threat to the world landed a long time ago...
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:46:41 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: The Great RJ
>>could be prevented if we had a socialist world government. (major sarcasm)
Down at the end of the story, the writer suggests that (in a roundabout way).
Vox, the place where adolescent crybabies can pretend to be journalists.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:46:55 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyranni)
To: Joe 6-pack
>>The meteorite posing the greatest existential threat to the world landed a long time ago...
Ding Ding.....the Winner of the Thread!
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:47:36 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyranni)
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:48:22 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: John W
That is a lot closer than the moon.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:49:36 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Bryanw92; Joe 6-pack
The greatest existential threat to America is Barack Obama. He is destroying the country as we type this morning
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:52:16 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: bert
I’m thinking more of a Godzilla thing for San Fran. You know, targeted fire breathing and all that.
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posted on
09/07/2014 5:58:21 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: FreedomStar3028
The outer big planets are magnetic walls that change the course of most incoming objects away from Earth. You really haven't thought the physics of this situation through all the way, have you?
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:01:58 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Crazieman
Absolutely. The only question is not when but what will be the size of it. Something approaching the one which landed around the Caribbean is an exterminator. The one that hit in Siberia in the early 1900s could be a big problem in a populated area but not an exterminator.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:06:31 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: The Great RJ
major sarcasm
**********
Major funny too. Good post! Points out the extreme irrationality of liberal hysteria. They always use fearmongering to justify the expansion of government.
To: Sirius Lee
“I’d say the chances are 100% it will get hit sometime in the next billion years.”
Well, I’M not hanging around to see.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:12:57 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: bert
Its the only thing he has ever succeeded at. He is like a cyclone that destroys everything in its path.
To: John W
Whew! Now I can stop prepping.
Anybody need 500lbs of rice?
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:18:32 AM PDT
by
skimbell
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