Posted on 06/25/2010 8:55:08 AM PDT by JoeProBono
The Pan-STARRS PS1 Observatory in Hawaii, just before sunrise.
At this point, the only reason would be to know we're about to die.
We no longer have the capability to intercept them, and never had the ability to deflect them.
Even if we could deflect a killer asteroid, the current administration would regard it as a crisis to good to go to waste.
Is the camera going to stop it from hitting the earth? The further out we know, the more riots and chaos will reign. No thanks.
5 terabytes a night? lol....hope they have a registered copy of WinZIP...
When I have killer asteroids, I use this.
What a collosal waste of time and money.
God has already declared he will not destroy the entirety of mankind (at least before judgment). The rainbows we see serve as a reminder of that covenant (Genesis 9:9-17).
So it comes down to who you choose to believe.
Pretty cool stuff, but I kinda agree with some of the other freepers - It just gives us more time to contemplate our deaths.
But on another note I recently read that the destruction caused by asteroids, meteors, comets, etc., may not be as huge as was earlier calculated. I remember reading where all it would take is something about 20 miles in diameter to destroy the earth. Now I’m reading it would take something much larger.
In any case we are not yet capable of doing anything to stop one even a few hundred feet in diameter, so until we can, I’d rather not know one is on the way.
“Even if we could deflect a killer asteroid, the current administration would regard it as a crisis to good to go to waste.”
No doubt they have contingency plans to ram through Cap and Tax, immigration reform, VAT and all other goodies on the Progressive Top Ten list the instant they confirm that a planet-destroying asteriod is 2 weeks from collision with us. They would kick themselves if they let such a crisis pass without leaving BHO with a “historic” legacy. No doubt they anticipate that future time travelers would be able to roll back the tape and discover just what a great, underappreciated president he was...
Part of me wonders whether it would even be a good thing to even know an ‘extinction event’ is coming. I believe I’d rather have knowledge of it, not that it would do anyone a hell of a lot of good.
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