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Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth (Asteroid 2005 YU 55)
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| 11/4/11
| Irene Klotz - Reuters
Posted on 11/04/2011 12:09:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Is this the asteroid the Japanese are going to blast? I thought I read that somewhere.
To: cripplecreek
I just wish we were at the level where we could have nudged it into a stable Earth orbit as a 2nd moon/mining colony.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:46:36 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: VanDeKoik
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:50:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: NormsRevenge
And no one knows how all these asteroids were made. It’s a rock. Did it spontaneously coalesce? Unlikely. Has to be from a bigger body.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:54:49 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: NormsRevenge
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill - The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:56:15 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
To: NormsRevenge
Maybe it’ll bring back the dinosaurs!
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:56:37 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: VanDeKoik
“mining colony”
It’s 1000 feet wide. One guy and a pick?
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:01:07 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: MPJackal
It does. The curvature of the trajectory at that scale should be imperceptible.
To: NormsRevenge
Get ready for the .... zombies.
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:12:35 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Don't Tread On Me)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
Oops!
I totally thought it said 1000 miles.
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:17:59 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Allegra
Close encounter? It's the Borg Mother ship!
Picard to the rescue!
To: NormsRevenge
We are all going to die! In less than 125 years, every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!!!
It’s Bush’s fault. Women and minorities will be hardest hit.
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:28:47 PM PDT
by
kennedy
(No relation to those other Kennedys.)
To: NormsRevenge
"There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," Yeomans said. Yeah...just wait until it starts decelerating!
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:41:10 PM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: VanDeKoik
Remember that Government often awards contacts based on the low bid... What could possibly go wrong :^)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
The denizens of the fifth rock from the sun pissed the Martians off. They kept landing junk on the Martians planet...
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:53:09 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Asteroids are a far more credible extinction-level threat than global warming...I guess you didn't get the memo; the latest computer models prove that asteroid impacts are caused by global warming.
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posted on
11/04/2011 1:57:18 PM PDT
by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
"... Has to be from a bigger body...."
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posted on
11/04/2011 2:01:34 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
To: NormsRevenge
If NASA held a news conference on Saturday afternoon and announced that this asteriod was going to slam into the New York metropolitan area on Tuesday morning, on Saturday night CBS News would have as the lead story, “Herman Cain Facing Sexual Harassment Charges.”
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posted on
11/04/2011 2:06:26 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(The "Occupy Wall Street" losers should try occupying their local employment office. GET A JOB!)
To: Tenacious 1
“For Gawds Sakes! Somebody do something!!!!”
If it hits, hopefully it hits Pelosi’s district or georgetown.
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posted on
11/04/2011 2:46:45 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(To fix government, we need a rocket scientist. Oh, wait we have one!)
To: EQAndyBuzz
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