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Kansas scientists probe mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth
University of Kansas ^
| Dec 14, 2009
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Posted on 12/14/2009 5:27:46 AM PST by decimon
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12/14/2009 5:27:46 AM PST
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decimon
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
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12/14/2009 5:28:20 AM PST
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decimon
To: Quix
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posted on
12/14/2009 5:28:23 AM PST
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Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: decimon
We need a SDI type plan to protect us from the next one.
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12/14/2009 5:33:43 AM PST
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wolfcreek
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
To: decimon
So we could be hit by a comet and only have a few years' warning possibly not enough time to do anything about it."Stockpile chocolate.
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12/14/2009 5:34:35 AM PST
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bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: Perdogg
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12/14/2009 5:53:29 AM PST
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Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED)
To: decimon
Uses and Production of Ammonia (Haber Process)
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Key Concepts
In 1909 Fritz Haber established the conditions under which nitrogen, N2(g), and hydrogen, H2(g), would combine using
- medium temperature (~500oC)
- very high pressure (~250 atmospheres, ~351kPa)
- a catalyst (a porous iron catalyst prepared by reducing magnetite, Fe3O4).
Osmium is a much better catalyst for the reaction but is very expensive.
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12/14/2009 6:01:54 AM PST
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Pontiac
To: decimon
Someone on this board recommended
Lucuifer's Hammer as a good read on a post-comet-strike scenario. I read it and what really opened my eyes was not the usual collapse of civilization, but the concept of the comet fragmenting and hitting the earth like buckshot - spreading the misery world-wide.
I had followed the Shoemaker-Levy collisions with Jupiter but for some reason, never eequated that happening to earth - always thought of just ONE BIG ONE slamming in.
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12/14/2009 9:28:42 AM PST
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Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: decimon; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Thanks decimon! I got in here and posted before some total moron put "callingartbell" into the keywords! Yay!
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12/14/2009 7:34:18 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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12/14/2009 7:34:59 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: Oatka
Lucifer's Hammer is pretty much how it'd go down.
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12/14/2009 7:38:14 PM PST
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txhurl
To: Oatka; SunkenCiv
To: Fred Nerks
I need new glasses. I first read that as Great Breasts..."
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posted on
12/14/2009 7:59:24 PM PST
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verity
(Obama Lies)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the link. I must say when I first heard of snowball comets as the explanation for such a watery earth I was skeptical too, but I now find it an intriguing hypothesis.
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12/15/2009 10:09:58 AM PST
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colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: SunkenCiv
After I presented my findings on the small comets in 1986, the scientific community did its best to extinguish my career. In the past decade, I have been unable to get any other projects off the ground. Before the small-comet findings became public, my success in this regard was envious; I was able to get instruments on board several major spacecraft -- Polar, Galileo and Geotail. But after my small-comet announcement, I got nothing. I had my ongoing projects, such as the one on Polar that eventually produced the confirmatory data. But the new projects I proposed went nowhere -- even those that had nothing to do with small comets. Very similar to the way Big Science is enforcing Globull Warming orthodoxy today.
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12/15/2009 10:14:43 AM PST
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colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: SunkenCiv
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12/15/2009 5:49:24 PM PST
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Quix
Thanks Quix, I’m checking it out in another tab.
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12/15/2009 6:56:47 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: Fred Nerks; colorado tanker
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12/15/2009 7:02:07 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: blam
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12/15/2009 7:02:54 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: SunkenCiv
You’re most welcome.
Thx for all your interesting threads and posts.
Have a blessed CHRISTmas with those you love.
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12/15/2009 7:11:10 PM PST
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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