Posted on 04/05/2013 1:21:15 PM PDT by oxcart
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top senator says President Barack Obama and NASA are planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon. Then astronauts would explore it in 2021.
Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said the plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth.
Nelson, who is chairman of the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee, said Friday that Obama is putting $100 million for the accelerated asteroid mission in the 2014 budget that comes out next week. The money would be used to find the right small asteroid.
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>> “what happens if and when this thing decides to move towards earth and happens to kill people ?” <<
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partial fulfillment of UN agenda 21 (population reduction)
The next step for Man is the same as it was 40 years ago- build an underground ‘greenhouse’ on the Moon and expand it.
Without that step nothing else has a purpose, as we’ve seen for the last 40 years.
Ass Troid
NASA will just call on George Bailey and Pecos Bill to lasso the moon!
Heck, they should just park it ON the moon, then mine it to their heart’s content.
OMG...I’m beginning to think that Nelson is even dumber than Patty Murray.....what a STUPID idea.
OOPS...I’ve been taken.....didn’t see the April 1 date!! But I still think Nelson is a DUMB bag of rocks.
Thanks oxcart. APoD extra.
...a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon. Then astronauts would explore it in 2021. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said the plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth.
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LOL
One of my senators is fairly conservative (on most issues), handsome in a Latin sort of way, Roman Catholic, and the child of Cuban Refugees.
The other one got zapped one too many times between the ears with cosmic rays.
I was cool with paragraph one and two of what you wrote, then you went a little off your rocker in paragraph three.
You don’t understand. By increasing the mass of the earth, we can change our orbital path around the sun, thereby reducing global warming.
Of course, after we bring the additional mass onto the Earth, we then will have to increase the planet’s velocity to maintain the new orbit, so its important to start those taxes now.
If it fails, the asteroid would be like a giant mountain or star crashing into the sea. Who would ever think something like that could happen? (Rev 8:9-11)
You can't even believe another man's version of what happened yesterday, much less many millenia ago. And even if you saw something with your own eyes, it could be a complete misinterpretation (like stone-age natives seeing aircraft for the first time and linking it to their own prophesy).
Pure sophistry. You cannot believe anything that even you have investigated? This direction leads to moral (and empirical) relativism. You have to set points of origin and frameworks on things. If you are standing in Atlanta GA, and drop a peach of your hand 5 times and it falls to the street 5 times, you can be reasonably assured it will fall the 6th time.
In what way? How do you know that paper/parchment in the hands of man for thousands of years is 100% the indisputable word of God?
I choose to believe it is, because it lines up so well with successful human endeavors and lives.
I thought Obama was eliminatingNASA.
Is this a cover story for another $100 Billion that Obama can siphon off for his own future use???
Yes, it is possible to reasonably predict simple things within this reality (I do so every day as an engineer) but we know little of the underlying mechanisms of this reality beyond our narrow perception.
Yes, you can explain everything you see by saying “God makes it so” but I think He gave us the curiosity and mental ability to dig far deeper than that. For most of history people believed thunder was some God or Gods making sounds with a hammer, etc.
Part of digging deeper is questioning EVERYTHING you see and hear. Even if some humans thousands of years ago claimed to have written His word onto paper, I don't think He would want us to accept it without question.
Yes, I believe much of it is truth but there is also likely a great deal of mistranslation, editing, misinterpretation, etc. Nearly every page in the Bible has translations/interpretations disputed by various biblical scholars. I also believe it is impossible to translate the unfiltered pure word of God into a man-made language. Every language/culture has it's own biases.
You misunderstand how the Word of God is identified.
The Creator of the universe didn’t create all things, then make man in His own image, only then realize He had a senior moment and had forgot how to make man such that He could communicate with him.
Through faith in Christ, He provides a regenerated human spirit, with which He indwells and communicates with us spiritually. This is NOT a soulish act. It doesn’t work first in your mind, or in your recall, or in your physical or rational senses. It is a spiritual perception, known as faith, also translated as belief(same Greek word).
You are very correct to recognize there are many translations of Scripture. There is only one way to Him. Through faith in Christ. You can read the best translations and still not get it, unless He is working it in you. This requires humility before Him to accept Him working in you so you understand His Word.
It isn’t which translation or interpretation you read that brings you the Word of God, but many translations might touch upon your soulish recall, which is scarred from years without Christ, which can easily interrupt your fellowship with Him. So yes, a good translation is important to lessen the risk of our being distracted by accidentally reading into Scripture our thinking, instead of taking in from His Word, what He has provided for us.
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