Why Asteroid Panic Is On the Rise

space.com ^ | 08 March 2012 | Natalie Wolchover

[gogogodzilla]

People are panicing because they “know” that asteroids are where zombies come from.

*SPACE* zombies!!11!!1!!1!!

(All your base are belong to us!)

[dfwgator]

I for one, welcome our new zombie overlords.

[LonePalm]

I have humoroids. It only hurts when I laugh.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[LonePalm]

You change the line of longitude of a geosynchronous satellite by pushing them in or out a few miles. If you push it out, it will move west. If you push it in, it will move east. Then you wait. When it gets to the line of longitude you want, reverse the process.

I used to work for the Joint Satellite Engineering Center.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Free_in_Alabama]

My 92 year old grandmother who is a very Christian woman even has the sense of something is coming. She told me the other day that she worries for us all, meaning her grand and great grand kids. The realization that there is an event on the near horizon that will will change our world is felt by many. She doesn't watch TV but reads all the time. So she is not getting hyped from other sources. I'm very curious if its a global feeling or a local phenomenon.

[MrB]

I’ve found that many don’t want to talk about it.
There’s still a lot of “kook factor” involved in having the feeling that “the end is near”.

For example, I probably wouldn’t discuss this with my employer... :)

[UCANSEE2]

Yeah, except the last one caused the dark ages.

This time, the dark ages are being caused by Obama and Islamism.

[UCANSEE2]

"It's about time they cleaned that place out."

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

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“One problem is that the Internet is wide open to anyone to say anything,”

Thank GOD for that (and ALGORE), or I would never have seen this author’s piece.

The reason ‘panic’ is on the rise, is only because ‘awareness’ is on the rise.

Scientists/Nations built Asteroid spotting stations all over the world, very quickly and very quietly. Massive amounts of money were spent to do this. Underground self-sustained living quarters for the ruling elite to hide in are being built.

Is it any wonder the general public would ‘panic’ some, given the actions of the ruling elite?

[presidio9]

I thought the Dark Ages were caused primarily by the collapse of the Roman Empire and the loss its civilizing and cultural influence.

The current liberal interpretation blames the Catholic Church for the Dark Ages.

That works for me if it means we can blame Islam for what it has done and continues to do to Middle Eastern culture.

[Talisker]

"One problem is that the Internet is wide open to anyone to say anything," Yeomans told Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com. In the past, claims about asteroids were written up by scientists and submitted to peer-reviewed journals, a critical process that "would filter out nonsense," he said. "If something was published, it was reliable."

LOL!

Just freekin' LOL!

[Talisker]

Meteor Crater in Arizona was formed by a meteor about 150’ diameter.

Mebbe.

But there are serious impact anomolies if that is so. The buried debris field does not contain the amount or density of heavy metal (iron, etc.) that would have been necessary to create that kind and size of crater.

If, on the other hand, the crater was made by a high-technology explosion, such as a massive nuke or antimatter source, or was made by a big enough particle beam firing down from above, then the lack of metal would make sense.

But of course, everyone knows there was no high technology in the distant past, so that can't be the explanation.

Forbidden Archeology

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