Thanks NormsRevenge.
NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.Obama sure picked the right guy for that job, eh? What a useless waste of protoplasm.
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Posted on 03/19/2013 7:28:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.
That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.
An asteroid estimated to be have been about 55 feet in diameter exploded on February 15 over Chelyabinsk, Russia, generating shock waves that shattered windows and damaged buildings. More than 1,500 people were injured.
Later that day, a larger, unrelated asteroid discovered last year passed about 17,200 miles from Earth, closer than the network of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.
The events "serve as evidence that we live in an active solar system with potentially hazardous objects passing through our neighborhood with surprising frequency," said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat.
"We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet.
NASA has found and is tracking about 95 percent of the largest objects flying near Earth, those that are .62 miles or larger in diameter.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Pray.
i would pray it would hit dc.
If there was a cataclysmic asteroid headed to earth, I would probably drive towards the destination. I wouldn’t want to be around when it hit.
I’m tempted to pray that a large asteroid IS headed for earth.
Soon, hopefully.
Like tonight.
“Look on the bright side - we’ll all have schools named after us.”
I would pray it would hit Mecca.
It appears Yahoo!News was shocked that a DemocRAT could say something that is even semi-intelligent. LOL! Otherwise, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson would have been enough.
- NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.
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If you’re not so keen on prayer, please fully fund all my projects NASA chief Charles Bolden added.
NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.Obama sure picked the right guy for that job, eh? What a useless waste of protoplasm.
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Put up the “Neutron flux density shield”. —it will protect us.
If it were aimed for a liberal crap hole like NYC or San Francisco, what would be the down side?
I’m sure some in the EU are hoping for Brussels. ;-)
Nah, there’s nothing anybody could do. We don’t have the technology to handle anything that could come from space.
Really! What could we do to protect ourselves (put up big nets to catch the Asteroid?)? Alas, nothing. Recovery in the aftermath is another matter.
IBT Planet X conspirators.. I haven’t ruled it out yet though.
They blew that part of the budget on Muslim outreach...
I've been telling people for a long time that Space research is as important as the military. People foolishly think “how does blowing money up there help us here?” until a planet-killing or city-killing rock emerges from the depths of space and we lack the capability to do anything about it. With the current state of NASA, there is a good chance we won't even have a warning.
Can someone tell me why NYC is always center of the frikkin’ universe with these progs?
Life's full of trade-offs.
So NASA admits there is a God!
Actually, the Book of Revelation states that an asteroid (star) breaks into two pieces. The larger half strikes the land between the rivers ( Iraq) the other half strikes the Med. It’s one of the bowl judgements.
Is everything OK?
It’s that @$%&^*)*^%$$ global warming !!
Actually, it is well within our technological capability to divert even a largish asteroid, given enough lead time.
Would require considerable expansion of our space infrastructure, costing a lot of money, but I believe that would have lots of beneficial side effects.
Depends on the size. A "dinosaur-killer" would probably exterminate the human race.
Here's a calculator you can enter various parameters into and see what the consequences of impact are.
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/
That’s obviously ridiculous — the object that detonated over Russia was only 50 feet across, and could easily be blasted to bits using conventional explosives. The problem is in detection, which has grown a lot since 1994’s SL-9 impact on Jupiter, but clearly it still lags when something this size comes in with no warning.
And yet, they laughed and ridiculed Reagan’s Star Wars. Think of what could have already been even more advanced capabilities than we have if the goons in charge could have imagined other applications of the technology..
Back in 2010, obama said we were going to build an asteroid deflector for the big one coming in 2029. Guess he lied.
Muslim outreach would seem to be the answer here.
I’m sure Planned Parenthood would try to give it a prescription for birth control pills to keep it from making baby asteroids!
I don’t consider 50 ft cataclysmic. I’m talking about those mile wide asteroids that do hit the earth every billion years.
How’d they get that Shuttle that should have gone to Houston?
I don’t know. It would not take very much to nudge one off course. Besides the problem in being able to nudge (not trivial) you have to be sure you aren’t making matters worse :-)
I just think it is pathetic that we piss away so much in money and resources yet devote so little in defense against something that could wipe out the entire planet. This is an example of an global issue that governments and NASA should be focused on rather than monitoring the size of Big Gulps and other crap.
I’m not going to lose any sleep over this. You take yer chances. You’ll never get out a here alive.
The article states only a large asteroid ... with no dimensions given
But I did find this;
"We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet."
So, we're told nothing about a maybe asteroid that is large and let's see how much money we need ... after telling us to pray ... let's start looking into the money we need to ....,
sheesh
That it really doesn’t matter where ground zero is. A large asteroid would destroy the earth no matter wher it hits.
“The larger half strikes the land between the rivers (Iraq) the other half strikes the Med. It’s one of the bowl judgements.”
“Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e. Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.”
Maybe it’ll strike Rome???
Considering that the US has all but shut down it’s space program and there is no other country even remotely capable of accomplishing anything meaningful regarding an incoming asteroid ... mute point IMHO.
Oh will all be dead from global warming before the meteor hits.
I have to say I feel the same way.
The last time that happened was in 1908. And those events are very, very rare. They only happen once a century or so.
I think you are scaring people to be an alarmist.
Oh.... wait... 100 years...
/johnny
Waiting for the ACLU to sue claiming that his comments are against the establishment clause of the First Amendment....
Well for one thing my daughter is studying to become an Engineer at NY Poly Tech.
Maybe we can hope for one to hit the city one of your children live in next.
Some believe that the object over Russia was indeed blasted to bits by some sort of munitions.. There are articles on the web discussing extraterrestrial intervention and even a photo of a craft visible in the area at that moment. Interesting stuff.
ditto that
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