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Americans warned of imminent, deadly meteor strikes: Famous strategy recommended to survive
WorldNetDaily ^ | January 13, 2014 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 01/18/2014 6:16:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

With NASA reporting a “potentially hazardous” asteroid nearly half-a-mile wide possibly heading toward earth, and some upstate New Yorkers claiming they experienced a loud boom and a bright light in the sky last night caused by a meteor, a doctors’ organization is offering some timely advice:

Just as when the American populace first prepared for the possibility of a nuclear blast, a person’s best option for surviving a meteor strike is the same “duck and cover” created during the 1940s and ’50s when nuclear weaponry was still in its infancy.

The warning comes from Physicians for Civil Defense, which issued a statement recently during a meeting of the Emergency Management Agency of Utah.

“All Americans, starting with first responders and emergency managers, need to know this basic life-saving principle: ‘Drop and cover if you see a sudden very bright light,’” said the statement from the organization’s spokeswoman, Jane Orient, M.D.

“Such a light will be followed by a deadly shock wave within seconds. Those who drop and cover will probably survive. Those who do not are likely to be killed or suffer severe injury.”

The organization’s goal is to save lives of first responders in the event of disasters, “especially terrorist attacks using dirty bombs or nuclear weapons.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: asteroid; asteroids; bobunruh; meteors; nasa; newyork; preppers; survival; worldnutdaily
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To: mrsmith

And I quickly see on archive.org...

https://archive.org/details/SpacePatrolEpisode2TheWanderingAsteroid
Space Patrol Episode 2 The Wandering Asteroid (1963)


41 posted on 01/18/2014 6:57:54 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Bob

>>The only thing that they didn’t tell us — Once under the desk, after you’ve tucked your head between your legs, kiss your a$$ goodbye. We figured out that last part for ourselves even as grade schoolers.

So did I. Then, I grew up and learned that nuclear weapons have a fireball radius (where you kiss your a$$ goodbye) and they have a much larger overpressure radius, where you die from flying glass and debris and hiding under a desk and staying away from windows actually can save your life.


42 posted on 01/18/2014 6:58:54 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Salamander

/spits out cyanide pill

:)

Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.


43 posted on 01/18/2014 7:00:43 PM PST by DAC21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meteor impacts are a very real danger. Skeptics seem to have already gone alzheimers on the Chelyabinsk flyby that blasted out windows and injured 5,000 a few months back. That was an air burst 20 miles high. There was NO WARNING, it was not spotted by our half hearted Sky Watch program. If it had been an impact, Chelyabinsk would have been cratered. In the months following Chelyabinsk, around a dozen other flybys occurred. We live in a cosmic shooting gallery.

10,000 years ago a meteor chain and associated debris struck from Central Mexico to the Midwest starting a short lived ice age and wiping out almost all live on the continent. This is no freaking joke.

http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/
http://cosmictusk.com/clovis-population-decline-at-younger-dryas
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/

100 years ago a meteor exploded over Tunguska, Siberia leveling 800 square miles of forest.

The only reason this danger is being suppressed and ridiculed is because we couldn’t have our leftist scientists and nuclear disarmament pacifists admitting that our ICBM nuclear arsenals are the ONLY defense we have at present.

Wake up.


44 posted on 01/18/2014 7:01:20 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The right size meteor could be just what we need. Enough of a catastrophe to put meaning back in the idea of class. Specifically, the landless underclass will parish without a place to grow turnips.


45 posted on 01/18/2014 7:02:13 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Bryanw92

#LOL!

:^)


46 posted on 01/18/2014 7:02:15 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From NASA: “The asteroid is still 27 million miles away from Earth, and won’t get here for another hundred years at least.”

Not to worry. Most of us won’t be around for this one anyway.


47 posted on 01/18/2014 7:03:04 PM PST by fivecatsandadog
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
in about 100 years. Anybody here planning on being around then?

Silly question. Every federal and state program in place today, as well as every one of their administrators are planning to be here then. More, 800 new laws took effect just in California on January 1, 2014. How many new laws in addition to the existing laws will take effect in all 57 States, and on federal level between now and then?

48 posted on 01/18/2014 7:04:44 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

difference being, meteors have hut the planet many times in the past... and it’s only a numbers game until something significant hits us again


49 posted on 01/18/2014 7:05:44 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Not for lack of trying, mind you. ;-)

I feeeel lucky to have seen and survived Halley’s comet and Hale-Bopp too! Stickin’ around for this one is a long shot , at best .. HaPPy TRails!!


50 posted on 01/18/2014 7:06:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Such a light will be followed by a deadly shock wave within seconds. Those who drop and cover will probably survive. Those who do not are likely to be killed or suffer severe injury.”

One of the most absurd statements I've seen in a long time. If it's an airburst, duck and cover will have little effect if you're in the blast radius (that label is a major variable in and of itself) depending upon several factors. If it's an impact upon land, immediate survival depends upon distance from impact, and if you're far enough away from the heat wave that will be coming towards you to have a chance at survival, the last thing you want to do is lie around and wait for what happens next. Such nonsense was taught to us in Basic Training but most of us understood it was simply a confidence exercise that had little to no value in reality.
51 posted on 01/18/2014 7:09:27 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Yollopoliuhqui

This particular one is 100 years out.


52 posted on 01/18/2014 7:09:52 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

Boring truth doesn’t sell copies.

;]


53 posted on 01/18/2014 7:13:35 PM PST by Salamander (Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
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To: DAC21

One of these days, I’ll learn to read the whole thread before I blindly panic.

;D


54 posted on 01/18/2014 7:15:18 PM PST by Salamander (Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
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To: mrsmith

Perfect.


55 posted on 01/18/2014 7:16:38 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Salamander
"Duck especially low, of course....;)"

How Low Can You Gooo?

56 posted on 01/18/2014 7:19:34 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: cynwoody

Thanks for that, I have very good speakers and it gave me a start!


57 posted on 01/18/2014 7:21:53 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” Lucifer’s Hammer” by Niven and Pournelle. One of the first shtf novels I read. Good stuff!

‘The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival—a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....’

http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Hammer-Jerry-Pournelle/dp/0449208133/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390101670&sr=1-1&keywords=lucifers+hammer


58 posted on 01/18/2014 7:22:43 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Impact by meteor of nickle iron content half mile wide? That’s a planet killer. Fuggetabboudit!


59 posted on 01/18/2014 7:26:04 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: All

I use Preparation H for assteroid relief.


60 posted on 01/18/2014 7:28:03 PM PST by BipolarBob
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