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 ...
Shutdown Govt for 1 year halts climate change.
Feb. 4 just blow the emergency horns and send out an “INCOMING” text.
Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War!
As if having it tracked would prevent a strike
Bwahahahaha
Precisely
If it allows a single illegal alien to stay in the country and harm Americans, it will be worth it (s)any democrat politician
I agree with Mr Cat
Not as many as DC or mecca...
Where are all those online psychiatrists from Yale to help us analyze these “challenged” CNN analysts when we need them?
Just remember... this shutdown is because the democrats are standing with illegals over our military
the dems supporting the breaking of our laws should be charged with aiding and abetting and tossed in jail
CNN and Bill Nye covered this during an "asteroid scare" about five years ago.
“Turn the parks over to the states.”
Pleas no. Oklahoma has none, thank goodness but they do have a monument or two and they would surely mess that up and still never have enough money to operate it. They have already turned some things over to the tribes and most of them haven’t got a clue what to do.
GLOBAL WARMING Caused GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN!!
May it land squarely on CNN.
If we get an asteroid strike, cant we just have superman fly backwards really fast around the earth and fix everything?
One of the major “asteroid watching” groups is at the University of Arizona at their observatory on Mt. Lemmon.
Looking at their web site it seems a lot of their funding is other than NASA and wont stop because of the shut down.
But what the heck, you wouldn’t expect CNN to actually research anything would you?
Trump needs to fire the long-deceased AG Sessions and appoint someone who is
1. Actually living;
2. Displays an active EEG brain wave;
3. Eager to prosecute justice to Demonicrats who are giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Sounds like CNN reporter Tom Foreman has been at the Starbucks to long needs to cut back on the sugar logic will reappear.
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