Posted on 01/21/2018 5:25:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
January 21, 2018 CNN reporter: Shutdown risks asteroid strike! By Rick Moran
A CNN reporter claims that because of the shutdown, NASA won't be able to track an incoming asteroid which will make its closest approach to earth on February 4th.
We are all going to die because...Trump!
CNN reporter Tom Foreman made the sensational claim when discussing what government services have been suspended because of the shutdown.
Here's a partial transcript:
FOREMAN: "Roughly 1.9 million government workers would be considered essential and stay on the job. Air traffic controllers, security officers, food inspectors, prison guards, Social Security checks would go out. The post office would be open. But at a steep price to many workers." MULVANEY: "The military will still go to work. They will not get paid. The border will still be patrolled. They will not get paid." FOREMAN: "Meanwhile many services would be stopped or delayed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would back down its flu tracking program even as the nation faces the worst outbreak in years. Some senior nutrition programs would be paused. 200,000 passport applications went unprocessed in 1995. Congress funds much of the scientific research done in this country. In 2013, that meant some experiments went on hold in 2013 and suffered costly losses of data. In space same year, for more than two weeks, NASA reportedly stopped monitoring potentially dangerous asteroids. A big one, by the way, is expected to brush by Earth on February 4th.
"As for the 417 national parks, the administration wants to keep limited access wherever possible, but service would be reduced and 19 of the Smithsonian’s museums would shut their doors."
If you call a miss by 2.6 million miles a "brush by earth," you are a moron.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Paging Bruce Willis.
Does this “report” constitute sufficient evidence for the issuance of mental involuntary commitment warrants against everyone who works at CNN?
Other than poop our collective drawers, there’s absolutely nothing that mankind can currently do to defend ourselves from an asteroid impact, as if this is a monumental concern arising from the #SchumerShutdown.
It’s equally important to note that apparently the rest of the world has agreed with American Democrats to suspend their efforts to detect inbound asteroids until such time as the #SchumerShutdown has ended.
These liberal propagandists are stark raving lunatics.
Put all of the Congressional Dims on the next rocket headed out and let them track the frikkin’ asteroid in person.
Let the Cowboy Hat Lady push the launch button.
Or, they could report as breaking news that Vladimir Putin—at the request of President Trump-—had just ordered his military to divert it to CNN headquarters.
...minorities, women, and child hurt worse... /s
That was plan one.
When this problem will be resolved by giving the dimbulbcrats what they want, the asteroid will then be chalked up to climate change.
If that doesn’t work it’s because Trump.
If an asteroid was indeed on a trajectory to collide with the earth
how would more or less government spending change that?
We know you aren't really Rocket Scientists so take all the time you need to explain your theory.
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The stupid is strong at CNN.
It’s been a long time since anything reasonable or rational came from CNN. They’re licking the walls; stark, raving, incoherent, babbling insanity.
CNN to Major Tom!
CNN to Major Tom!
Turn your heat shields up and put your helmet on.
CNN to Major Tom!
CNN to Major Tom! (10, 9, 8, 7, 6...)
Asteroid approaching, start ignition sequence now. (5, 4, 3...)
Turn all your engines on and don’t forget to vote. (2, 1...)
Well, early warning would allow all of us to get to the other side of the planet and wait it out........But then again, all that extra wait might result in a planetary wobble.....kinda like a tire out of balance.
Comedy Central must be pulling better ratings again.
We received news this week that maple syrple is going to go extinct and now this! I don’t know how much more I can take!
So government troglodytes find an asteroid heading to earth and give an alert. It will be a repeat of the recent missile alert in Hawaii...mass panic as we have no means of diverting or destroying the meteor.
Hank Johnson could help out here.
Then the demonrats need to pass the budget quick.
If this was a real problem we would have already had 6 months of non-stop “the world is ending” news coverage. Ten times the distance to the moon is a long ways.
Following news of the Hawaiian CF my wife asked, "What would we DO if a missile was headed out way???" My answer,"Eat ice cream!"
I think my plan would work just as well for an impending asteroid strike!
They can't shoot it down. So we'll know that we're all gonna die? We're all gonna die, anyway.
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