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Possible Mars Impact Highlights Risk To Earth
New Scientist ^
| 1-4-2007
| David Shiga
Posted on 01/03/2008 4:38:58 PM PST by blam
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:39:00 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
1 in 28? It was 1 in 25 last week...
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:40:14 PM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: blam
Still got my fingers crossed. (for a mars impact)
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:40:27 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: blam
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:40:29 PM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
One of those “sooner or later” things. Just like global warming and global cooling.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:40:47 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: SunkenCiv; Jet Jaguar
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:41:58 PM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
evacuate any inhabited areas it might hit I suppose Chinese Fire Drills aren't like they used to be in the old silent movies, but this would be a lot like that.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:42:03 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: cripplecreek
Hope the Rovers don’t go the way of the dinosaurs . They should be able to get pictures if it hits in their vicinity .
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:45:15 PM PST
by
Renegade
(You go tell my buddies)
To: Jet Jaguar
The error radius will decrease in the days ahead but the center of most likely path will be about where it is now and the radius will not include Mars so the probability will go to zero.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:45:31 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: RightWhale
BUSH’S FAULT!!!
You guys are getting slow.
MARTIAN WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT!!!
Real slow.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:46:13 PM PST
by
JusPasenThru
(Just another angry military veteran.)
To: Sacajaweau
Yep:
Could be, perhaps, maybe, could happen, sooner or later, possibility
science at its best. ;-)
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:46:13 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Rabbit and the Hare … Fred ‘08)
To: RightWhale
Maybe New Orleans will get a 2nd chance to do it right.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:46:30 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: RightWhale; blam
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:46:41 PM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:47:16 PM PST
by
null and void
(To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth. - M203M4)
To: blam
Life on Mars will not be the same.
To: blam
Thing that freaks me out is this thing is only 150 feet wide, but could flatten a city. It’s almost “unfair” that due to the speeds one of these things doesnt have to be very big to wipe us out. A mile wide would be enough to mess up the planet. And if it’s several miles wide we are cooked.
I wonder why do they say the only option would be to evacuate? Why couldn’t we try to alter the course of a 50 meter wide rock?
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:49:41 PM PST
by
Williams
To: blam
Of course there is a greater risk for the Earth (than for Mars), we are a bigger target.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:50:09 PM PST
by
reg45
To: Williams
This is one of my favorite themes which I will not go into at this time, but we could capture such an asteroid and park it for later possible use for something else.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:51:33 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: null and void
It would be utmost kool if it hit, but it looks like a miss.
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:52:44 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
01/03/2008 4:53:34 PM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
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