Posted on 12/27/2006 11:40:51 PM PST by LibWhacker
I'll be 94 but I haven't taken very good care of myself so bring it on.
"We're in deep doo doo. Bruce Willis will be too old to get us out of this one."
The problem is that the scientist that was to discover the way to avoid the collision was aborted yesterday afternoon in Kansas.
President Chelsea will save us all!
Remember, if it's a big rock, fixin to hit some big city: ya gotta take it out, but if it's a missile(s). let er come on in. Show em we're peaceful. (And stupid.)
A half-mile across and 3,100 miles from impact? Sounds like it would make a dandy orbital platform. I wonder how we could slow it down enough to keep it?
Naw... Global warming will have just finished melting all the icebergs and the world will be a water planet. So when it hits that will be one massive wave... Surfs up dude!
Halloween?.........Apropos.....
I recently read a Sci-fi story about a combatant in a war that had hollowed out and asteroid and hid a command and control center with nuclear missiles in side. Their enemies never suspected, until it was too late..........
The DemocRATS have been all over this "Star Wars" stuff.
Clinton cut funding for research to the bone. Face it, we are dooooommmmmmeeeeeddd!~
One of those "doom and gloom" shows on the History Channel last weekend covered the topic of near earth objects. One of the "scientists" stated that on any given day we have a 1 in 20,000 chance of being hit by an object large enough to cause catastrophe on Earth. This one seems minuscule by comparison....
That number is what the error in their calculations would have to be for it to hit the earth. Or in other words, their calculations would have to be more accurate than that in order to know it wouldn't hit the earth. That's a strikingly small error to have to calculate things to. So small that it leaves a lot of doubt that it is calculated that accurately.
Dammit! I'll be almost ready to get my socialist security checks and an asteroid is going to hit!
If it really comes as close as 3,100 miles it could explode just by being very hot. It could be an event like Tunguska Siberia in 1908. If it is over a populated area, there would be unimaginable death and destruction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
These "scientists" are probably a lot like me. They've taken just enough calculus to screw them up for the rest of their lives.....they probably can't even do long division any more...
Jimmy Carter's head?
Bill Clinton's ?
Sounds like a good one for target practice.
By then, maybe 80 will be the "new 60"!
Good idea! Of course even without mans' additions there will still be plenty of pollution from natural fires and volcanoes.
I like the idea above about capturing the asteroid and parking it in earth orbit. That might take a while but it is certainly easier than going out the Belt and floating one to us.
That's a lot of material that we could use on earth especially if it is metals-based.
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Good mining candidate!
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