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Nasa 'short of money to watch asteroids heading to Earth'
The Telegraph ^
| 8/12/2009
Posted on 08/12/2009 4:05:16 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:08:36 PM PDT
by
tired1
(When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
To: bruinbirdman
Obama will just print up more money and fix this problem. Whats the big deal? ;-)
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:12:58 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Obama? Not so much.)
To: bruinbirdman
Don’t know that they could do much about a killer asteroid anyway.
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:16:30 PM PDT
by
mtg
To: bruinbirdman
Send Nancy Pelosi to Mars with a pair of binoculars.
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:16:53 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
To: bruinbirdman
If that doesn’t sound like a budget justifcation plea I don’t know what does
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:17:25 PM PDT
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GeronL
(http://unitedcitizen.blogspot -Guilty of deviationism- http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: mtg
A Tunguska sized piece might not be spotted until it’s minutes away. Not much time to warn people to duck!
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:19:02 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
To: GeronL
"If that doesnt sound like a budget justifcation plea I dont know what does."If NASA really wants some bucks they should say they might have discovered life on asteroids.
yitbos
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:26:37 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds.")
To: bruinbirdman
However, the academy concluded that there had been "relatively little effort" by the US government to addressing the threat. What, is the U.S. the only ones threatened? Why not ping on the governments of Spain, Albania, Ubekistan or Uruguay?
Hmmmm.....
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:28:04 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
To: bruinbirdman
If NASA REALLY wants some bucks they should say they might have discovered TAXABLE life on asteroids.
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To: bruinbirdman
If it’s a big rock, you gotta stop it, if it’s a missie headed for NYC and will kill 2 or 3 million, you gotta let it come on in, we can’t have no missile defense thanks to numerous libs/RATS. If you interfere with it a lot of libs will be very unhappy.
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:29:04 PM PDT
by
Waco
(Libs exhale too much)
To: bruinbirdman
Congress assigned the space agency four years ago to watch 90 per cent of potentially deadly rocks hurtling through space Only Congress is arrogant or stupid enough to believe NASA can be mandated to find 90 % of various size rocks flying thought the mind boggling unbelievable vast amount of space even in our own galaxy.
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:37:13 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: bruinbirdman
Maybe some of the more scientific freepers can help me out here, but I have a problem believing a large rock moving at several thousand miles a hour hitting earth would cause catastrophe life ending damage to our planet.
I think it's more like a grain of sand hitting a basketball.
Massive tidal waves ? Yes. End of life. ??????
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:47:10 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: bruinbirdman
Maybe some of the more scientific freepers can help me out here, but I have a problem believing a large rock moving at several thousand miles a hour hitting earth would cause catastrophe life ending damage to our planet.
I think it's more like a grain of sand hitting a basketball.
Massive tidal waves ? Yes. End of life. ??????
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posted on
08/12/2009 4:51:55 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: Waco
Maybe the Middleman (short lived and very funny ABC family series) will take care of it.
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posted on
08/12/2009 5:05:01 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity!)
To: Popman
A large rock could indeed wipe out civilization... the scenario would be darkening the atmosphere for a few years wreaking havoc on the climate. Case in point is the volcano, I think it was around 1888 or so, that caused the "year without a summer"; of course, the detestation would have to MUCHO larger than that. Another data point is the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out with a meteoric impact.
But, more to the point of this thread: Any rock big enough to do this is not going to be convinced to go elsewhere just because humans spend a bunch of trillions of dollars and devastate the global economy to alter its path. Not a single inch, or degree of trajectory, would it be diverted.
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posted on
08/12/2009 5:19:08 PM PDT
by
C210N
(A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
To: mtg
Actually a lot - if they had enough of a lead time, and the political will - but given all the squabbling in Congress, your right - no amount of lead time measured in less than 100s of years would be enough. So no, a killer astroid would be just that: ELE.
Maybe the Chinese would be able to do something (certainly not the US) but who knows?
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posted on
08/12/2009 5:20:42 PM PDT
by
PIF
To: Popman
ELE as far as humans are concerned - nothing new however. Happened before numerous times - some life would survive and things would start over, just as they always do.
“a grain of sand hitting a basketball”
A grain of sand traveling at 40,000 mph hitting a basketball at an oblique angle makes a real mess. There is a real time shot of this happening in a lab on some TV - Discovery, History, N Geo. one of them.
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posted on
08/12/2009 5:28:12 PM PDT
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PIF
To: PIF
I understand it would be ugly. I just don’t buy into the ELE part.
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posted on
08/12/2009 5:34:06 PM PDT
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Popman
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