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Forget The Debt Ceiling — Traders Are Buzzing About The Gigantic Asteroid Barreling Towards Earth
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| 1-8-2013
| Sam Ro
Posted on 01/08/2013 8:20:42 AM PST by blam
ART CASHIN: Forget The Debt Ceiling Traders Are Buzzing About The Gigantic Asteroid Barreling Towards Earth
Sam Ro
Jan. 8, 2013, 8:46 AM
With no major economic, earnings, or political news, yesterday turned into one of the most boring trading days in a very long time.
According to UBS's Art Cashin, this gave the New York Stock Exchange floor traders time to chat about various things.
One of those things: the gigantic asteroid heading toward earth.
From this morning's Cashin's Comments:
And You Thought The Debt Ceiling Was All You Had To Worry About Trading was slow enough yesterday that traders had more than the usual allotment of time for chitchat. Quickly exhausting sports, politics and the rest of the usual roster, thinking and thoughts turned skyward.
They talked of the weekend news reports that an asteroid would be passing very, very near earth. How close was the key? Apparently, in mid-February, asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within 21,000 miles of earth.
To put that in some perspective, the moon is 240,000 miles away and several GPS satellites orbit at 26,000 miles. So, the asteroid will come within orbits of satellites. No need to worry though, NASA assures us that their calculations show that it will not strike the earth. We're from the government and we're here to help you.
Let's hope NASA double-checked their math.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; distater; economy; meteor
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To: SkyDancer
Got to go with Grumpy Cat on this one...whatever.
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:26:25 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: SkyDancer
Come to think of it; in all those various end of the world scenarios down thru the years, isn't Australia the only thing left after the 'SHTF'?
Good call, there...
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:30:22 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: blam
Let’s hope a good-sized CME between now and then doesn’t tweak the orbit...
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:32:42 AM PST
by
djf
(Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
To: djf
Sorry...
CME = Coronal Mass Ejection
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:37:26 AM PST
by
djf
(Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
To: blam
45
posted on
01/08/2013 9:38:09 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I guess the Mayans were off by a couple months. Actually the Mayan calendar was just an approximation. Sometimes the civilization ends earlier, sometimes later.
Definitely we need someone to make sure NASA did not do a metric/US conversion error. As they have in the past.
To: blam
Those Mayan’s never could calculate calendars accurately. They always seemed to be off a couple of months.
To: Safrguns
This is a three body problem (Earth, Moon, Asteroid) the math is pretty hairy on a 3 body problem, but it is solvable. So if NASA and the rest of the scientific community say near miss then it is a near miss, THIS TIME. However the asteroids’ orbit will be effected by passing so close to the earth, so who knows maybe next time?
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:03:37 AM PST
by
jpsb
To: Resolute Conservative
Maybe it will clear out some of the orbital junk that it up there. And maybe it'll take out some of our GPS sats, incapacitating the young drivers who've never seen a folding road map!
49
posted on
01/08/2013 10:07:15 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: pgkdan
Or DC. Hey! I'm just across the river in Alexandria! >:-0
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:11:56 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
To: Red Badger
Let's hope that NASA didn't use a mix of metric and English data........... Ah, no /s tag but I'll assume you know that's exactly what happened in 1999:
"Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter."
"NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement
while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation ..."
Not to worry though - it was replaced with another $125 million from the taxpayers' wallets.
51
posted on
01/08/2013 10:13:19 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: treetopsandroofs
Well Hale- Bopp was pretty impressive, I’d love another comet like that.
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:18:00 AM PST
by
Kozak
(The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
To: oh8eleven
$125 Million would fund the US government for about 15 minutes...................
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:18:02 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Kozak
Well Hale- Bopp was pretty impressive, Id love another comet like that.
So would I.........
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:20:07 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
Pretty sure he’s out of quarters....
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:41:30 AM PST
by
Kozak
(The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
To: dirtboy
But I'm sure that won't stop the usual nitwits from turning it into another end-of-the-world conspiracy theory. THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!!
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:45:54 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
To: brownsfan
I hope they have a better approach to physics than my High School Physics book did.
“All things being equal...what is the chance that an asteroid traveling through space...”
57
posted on
01/08/2013 10:47:16 AM PST
by
willyd
(Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
To: COBOL2Java
OK...well then...scratch that idea.
58
posted on
01/08/2013 10:50:47 AM PST
by
pgkdan
( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
To: brownsfan
Would that be the NASA that forgot to convert from feet to meters? Or would that be the NASA that is shilling global warming and muslim outreach? Or maybe thats the NASA without launch capability to get a person to the space station?
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:54:35 AM PST
by
GraceG
To: JimRed
And maybe it'll take out some of our GPS sats, incapacitating the young drivers who've never seen a folding road map! ON NO!!!! Some of us old timers hate those damned folding maps. Although they're better than the street map books where your map gets continued 8 pages later.
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:55:55 AM PST
by
pgkdan
( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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