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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
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To: TheRhinelander
Just wait until the comet in 2014. That's this year... 2013
2014 and 2015 will both see two blood moons each year, exactly on Jewish high sabbath feast days!
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:43:46 AM PST
by
Errant
To: struggle
About 1/4 the energy of Barringer. Still a city-killer, if not “most of a county” killer.
Unlike a nuke most of that 2 MT is kinetic.
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:44:00 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: dirtboy
I am refraining from praying that God should allow this meteor to be disastrously added to the Kabaa meteor collection in Mecca.
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:44:26 AM PST
by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: blam
Maybe the Myan’s were a few days off?
To: blam
Reminds me of a story I've read.
To: blam
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. Do we have a more reliable source?
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:47:45 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: blam
Ummm.... I wonder if Nasa’s calculations include the impact of earth’s gravity on the asteroid’s path?
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:47:59 AM PST
by
Safrguns
To: BuckeyeTexan
“Its the NASA who doesnt understand what happens to space shuttles that have cracked o-rings and broken heat-shield tiles. B@st@rds.”
I have littel confidence in the “new NASA”, you know the one that is diverse and multicultural. Back in the day when it was 99.9% white guys we could go to the moon and back with minimal computer support. These days 50% of the landers they send to Mars crash or burn up in the atmosphere due to math errors. Isn’t diversity grand?
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:49:58 AM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
To: blam
YOU can test your OWN theory of earth's destruction with this nifty simulation model. Just plug in your very own numbers, which you of course determined from a consensus of all scientists you know, of the size, direction, velocity of an asteroid, and then see what happens!
Hat-tip Imperial College, London.
Earth Impact Effects Program
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:50:39 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: blam
I think we need to get Congress to immediately fund a new TARP(Take Asteroids on Redirect Path)program.
When in doubt , throw cash.
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:53:56 AM PST
by
Cyman
To: blam
“There’s always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT! “ - MIB
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:56:24 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: oh8eleven
Panstarrs is less promising, but due in the middle of March. Kinda a warm up.
ISON won’t really get going until November, early December. Could be truly spectacular, when it gets here.
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:56:49 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
To: struggle
If it impacts in Mecca it might be worth it.
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posted on
01/08/2013 8:58:59 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
it is not the race but more to “quota-tocracy” vs meritocracy.
who cares about pigment if one person can do the job better than the other.
we have quota queens/kings who have no qualification other than passing through a quota system and being “gifted” a degree just to be a quota with a degree.
I would never hire algore for any climate science.
I would exepect bill clinton to be hired as a batchlor party coordinator.
I would not hire piers morgan to teach an ethics in journalism course.
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:07:31 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Safrguns
Go here:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi#results
take the tutorial.
The object you want is:
Asteroid (2012 DA14)
Your location is 500 (Geocenter)
Time span is =2013-feb-15 19:00 UT, Stop=2013-feb-15 20:00
Table settings: Table Settings [change] : QUANTITIES=20,22
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:09:52 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
To: oh8eleven
“If you’re referring to Comet Ison, it should become visible in Sept of this year, and may become brighter than a full moon. Way cool.”
Like Comet Kohoutek during NASA’s days of Soviet Outreach?
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:10:03 AM PST
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Georgia Girl 2
If it impacts in Mecca it might be worth it. Or DC.
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:12:19 AM PST
by
pgkdan
( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
To: blam
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:13:22 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: brownsfan
The NASA that’s full of affirmative action hires.We’re doomed.
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:18:34 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: blam
No sense in worrying about something I cannot do anything about. Obama will save us.
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posted on
01/08/2013 9:20:33 AM PST
by
Venturer
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