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Posted on 01/18/2014 6:16:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ROFL! Even better!
Something does not quite add up because at that distance over that time velocity calculates to around 30 mph. I'm pretty sure asteroids travel at least 55 PG to conserve gas. /S
When people were smart, the advice and training for school kids to soldiers, to moms at home and dads at work, or people on the streets, was to duck and cover when bomb or storm debris, or blinding light, or singing heat was going to fill the air and shatter windows.
Now we are all hip and can mock this basic truth of life, and we can stand at the windows and watch whatever happens, because everyone is convinced that the only two places involved in storms and bombs (or meteors), is it landing directly on you where death is certain, or at a distance where there is no reason to duck or avert your eyes.
There's nothing known that size on the way in. There are fireballs almost every night. The one that gets you will be "discovered" and its orbit traced from pictures taken the night before it hits.
I'll have to say, however. No one baits with better headlines than WND.
Actually I recall reading that a student or teacher at Hiroshima or Nagasaki ducked under a desk close to ground zero and emerged to discover the city around them destroyed.
Worldnetdaily. Should be called worldnutdaily.
That’s pretty pokey for an interstellar object of this nature, if I recall correctly.
It will all work out. You can stand up and bleed to death after getting hit by broken glass and the people who ducked and covered will eat your food.
Eh, before you know it, the meteor will take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
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Isn't NASA out of line here? I mean, how does this report further an Outreach to Muslims?
” it was simply a confidence exercise that had little to no value in reality.”
It is most unfortunate to see this dangerous misinformation being perpetuated. It couldn’t be more wrong.
There was a man working at an industrial facility along the U.S. Gulf Coast who was walking along a street with his co-workers when there was a very bright flash, in accordance with his training the man reflexively and instantly dived for cover in the street next to the concrete curbing. He then yelled at his laughing co-workers to duck and cover on the street like he did. They were still laughing when their standing figures burst into flame as the blast front reached them in the street and they burned to death as they were swept away by the blast winds. The man taking cover prone in the street gutter walked away virtually unscathed.
It later turned out that a tank of fuel had exploded, and the blast wave killed everyone directly exposed to the blast wave for a considerable distance from the site of the blast. The man taking cover prone in the street gutter walked away virtually unscathed.
Although a potential collision between the asteroid and the Earth is not due for a hundred years, the same may not be true for a number of lesser objects not yet detected that may be expected to accompany the asteroid along the same orbital track due to their mutual gravitational influences. In other words, the asteroid’s position may be millions of miles away from its closest approach until 100 years from now, but the asteroid’s orbital path lies in the Earth’s orbital path in certain years and not others or in every year. Smaller objects can be expected in many cases to travel along the same orbital path as the asteroid, so their path may intersect with the Earth’s orbit and with the Earth itself in certain years, while the asteroid remains millions of miles away elsewhere on the same orbital path. Some of these smaller objects may be samll enough to produce a crater like Barringer Crater in Arizona with a blast like a nuclear weapon of immense size. Others may be much smaller and still have enough energy to create a blast wave like that of an explosion at an oil refinery. When these impacts occur, and they will sooner than later, anyone smart enough to take cover fast enough will escape being ripped to pieces by shrapnel or turned into a human torch, while other people protected by any form of reasonable cover escapes virtually unharmed.
The same can be said for a variety of conventional disasters and nuclear weapons.
Yes, they sure don’t make them like they used to heh.
Did that a bunch in grade school right after to polio vaccine. But in Junior High we went out in the hall and curled up. And by High School they were shipping the seniors off to Nam.
“That’s pretty pokey for an interstellar object of this nature, if I recall correctly.”
They rather ingorantly failed to recognize how the asteroid is millions of miles distant from the Earth at most memnts in time until a hundred years from now, but it also closes to virtually zero distance from the Earth’s orbital path in some years as its own orbital path intersects with the Earth’s orbital path while the Earth is elsewhere along its orbital path. It just becomes a matter of time before they both happen to be at the same point of space along their respective orbital paths at the point where the intersect at the same moment in time like two commuter trains or two commuter cars arriving at the same intersection at the same time. Until the day of the fatal collision at their fated intersection they remain far apart.
find they can garner more lucrative grants with glowbull warming.
If that dries up, then this might fit the bill...
Heh,heh. Yeah we must be about the same age.
I remember thinking when the draft lottery started: “Well it’ll all be over before my time!”. I think it was the last lottery that got me (went to Germany, not Nam though).
My frozen head will be!
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