To: Free ThinkerNY
2 posted on
11/10/2009 11:27:30 AM PST by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: Free ThinkerNY; Slings and Arrows
Will fewer SUVs decrease the number of astroids hitting the Earth?
3 posted on
11/10/2009 11:29:03 AM PST by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Free ThinkerNY
A six meter wide asteroid that passed well within the Clarke belt of geosynch sats.
4 posted on
11/10/2009 11:29:14 AM PST by
Darksheare
(Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Remember that in August of this year a ruling came down that all incoming space rocks are considered as “Classified Information”.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Did he just call us an Ass-droid???
6 posted on
11/10/2009 11:30:46 AM PST by
IrishPennant
(“If you can accept losing, you can't win.” ~ Vince Lombardi)
To: Free ThinkerNY
That was the one I prayed for to hit Congress on Saturday!
It was CLOSE, but no cigar!
To: Free ThinkerNY
we're doooooomed!!!
or
nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
10 posted on
11/10/2009 11:33:55 AM PST by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama was out playing golf and thus missed the event.
12 posted on
11/10/2009 11:35:20 AM PST by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
To: Free ThinkerNY
An asteroid or meteor (don’t know which) hit in the Atlanta area a few years back. It was the size of a lunchbox, and sounded like someone put off a bomb on the other side of the street. It hit 65 miles away. I can only imagine one 23ft across!
16 posted on
11/10/2009 11:45:51 AM PST by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To put it in perspective the Moon is a distance of 250,000miles, which is nearly 30 times further away from our planet.I can't believe the idiots who write this stuff.
A much better and undestandable comparison would be geosynchronous satellites, satellite TV, which are three times as far...
19 posted on
11/10/2009 11:51:19 AM PST by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Food for thought. One of the closest Near Earth Objects is an asteroid called 433 Eros. In the year 2012, it is expected to pass relatively close to Earth, about 70 times further away than is the Moon.
So why should we care? When we sent a probe to 433 Eros, we discovered that it has more gold, silver, zinc, aluminum and other metals than have ever been, or could ever be, mined from the upper levels of Earth’s crust.
Granted, this is on an object about 34km by 11km. However, it is a rotating object. If we sent a robot there, to knock off big chunks of the asteroid with explosives, we could use its own rotations to hurl those chunks a much closer, but safe distance from Earth.
Then we could catch those chunks, and mine them for their metal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros
Check out the neat animation made from photographs taken by the probe.
To: SunkenCiv
29 posted on
11/10/2009 1:41:51 PM PST by
blam
To: Free ThinkerNY
Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years.Huh???
To: Free ThinkerNY
Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years.Huh???
To: Free ThinkerNY
Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years.Huh???
To: SunkenCiv
Like, *PING*, dude.
Cheers!
38 posted on
11/10/2009 3:59:18 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Ya' got Asteroids?
Naw, but my dad does. Can't even sit on the toilet some days.
42 posted on
11/10/2009 4:12:57 PM PST by
steveo
(2010 never again)
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