Iraqi Crater
Why do we feel the need to scare ourselves constantly? I know, I know, the media loves to inflate risks to inflate ratings...
Remember when BIC lighters were killing people by the dozen by exploding in people's pocketS?
They were there long before us, and they'll be there long after we're dust. Why worry?
Ok..Mac..you've had you 15 minutes of fame. Now pull on your elbow patched tweed jacket and smoke your pipe! Jeeeeez!
Back in the summer of 2001 it was the "Shark Attack" stories that were all the rage that entire summer. This year it seems that asteroids are the new media scare story.
What's next "Sharks from outerspace"....???
There was a meteor/comet/asteroid impact in 2002 that flattened about 40 miles of forest in siberia. there's a discussion of that plus discussion of half a dozen other meteor strikes in the last couple years at fr here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152933/posts
It looks like there's a pretty steady rain of space debris.
For an additional fee, I will include my booklet titled "How To Make Money From Foreign Bodies".
Johnny Dork, Mortician
Sky is falling bump.
"We'll get one to two events per century that will be equal to all the destructive power of all the weapons in World War II."
Name the last one, pal. Wasn't WWII the most destructive power we've seen in the 20th century? If there was a natural disaster of that magnitude, I missed it.
How do these clowns who guesstimate EVERYTHING now KNOW that these calamities WILL happen any time now?
"With funding, that could take about 10 years, and by then government officials could come up with a plan to at least minimize the potential global impact."
- Now THERE'S the solution - ANOTHER government research program! They'll fix it-they can fix ANYTHING!
I thought from the old thread last week that we only have until this Friday, June 18 before the asteroids start falling and wiping out life on this planet.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has been tracking asteroids, both past and future. They know all the dates, locations, distances in their Near Earth Object Program clear out to the year 2100.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
For the record, I do not support asteroids and comets.
I wonder if the government would tell us, if they knew some asteroid or whatever a mile across was PROBABLY going to hit earth and they knew the day and time. Opinions?
Members of Kongress exist for one purpose and one purpose only to spend everyone else's money, so if there is any concern it is that someone else may find a spending opportunity first.
Representative Dana Rohrbacher, who leads the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, said, "There is a threat to us and to our lives, of objects coming from space that could hit our planet and kill millions of people.
Oh a crisis One only to be alleviated by slipping some hard earned taxpayer dollars into some liberal university somwhere or hiring some more government workers parasites
It's happened in the past
Possibly 65,000,000 and 200,000,000 years ago
and it will happen in the future. The question is when, and how many people will be affected.
Maybe in another 70,000,000 years; however, you can be affected today as yet another kongressional spending boondoggle gets under way.
Not so long ago, science assumed the risk was even smaller for these extremely rare events. But better technology means we're discovering more, and finding a higher risk than was first believed.
Yep instead of 100,000,000 to 1, it might be only 50,000,000 to one. Sounds like a good reason to start a self perpetuating government program to me.
Didn't Pittsburgh experience a near-miss with a meteor in 1938 ?