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1 posted on 01/03/2008 4:39:00 PM PST by blam
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1 in 28? It was 1 in 25 last week...


2 posted on 01/03/2008 4:40:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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Still got my fingers crossed. (for a mars impact)


3 posted on 01/03/2008 4:40:27 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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4 posted on 01/03/2008 4:40:29 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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One of those “sooner or later” things. Just like global warming and global cooling.


5 posted on 01/03/2008 4:40:47 PM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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New Observations Slightly Decrease Mars Impact Probability
6 posted on 01/03/2008 4:41:58 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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evacuate any inhabited areas it might hit

I suppose Chinese Fire Drills aren't like they used to be in the old silent movies, but this would be a lot like that.

7 posted on 01/03/2008 4:42:03 PM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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Life on Mars will not be the same.


15 posted on 01/03/2008 4:47:26 PM PST by Always Right
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Thing that freaks me out is this thing is only 150 feet wide, but could flatten a city. It’s almost “unfair” that due to the speeds one of these things doesnt have to be very big to wipe us out. A mile wide would be enough to mess up the planet. And if it’s several miles wide we are cooked.

I wonder why do they say the only option would be to evacuate? Why couldn’t we try to alter the course of a 50 meter wide rock?


16 posted on 01/03/2008 4:49:41 PM PST by Williams
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Of course there is a greater risk for the Earth (than for Mars), we are a bigger target.


17 posted on 01/03/2008 4:50:09 PM PST by reg45
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Maybe we can get Al Gore to start a “Save Mars!” campaign.


34 posted on 01/03/2008 5:49:23 PM PST by Juan Medén
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Which do you suppose represents the greater risk to life on Earth?

....Global Warming.
or
....An asteroid strike.

If Algore really wanted to do something useful, he's promoting the wrong catastrophe.

38 posted on 01/03/2008 7:35:21 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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Thanks blam.
 
Catastrophism
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39 posted on 01/04/2008 8:49:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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the only option, astronomers say, would be to evacuate any inhabited areas it might hit.

After seeing FEMA in action before Katrina, we better get started now.

40 posted on 01/04/2008 8:54:54 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (It's as simple as ABC - Anyone But Clinton!!!!)
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1 in 28

Those odds are better than my picking the winner in any given football game on any given day. I think I'm about 0 fer 1000 over the last few years.

44 posted on 01/04/2008 9:56:08 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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