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Medium-Size Asteroid Strike Could [Depending on Where It Strikes] ]Unleash a Mini Ice Age
space.com ^ | 02/09/2016 | Mike Wall

Posted on 02/09/2016 11:59:06 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

Doesn’t it matter if the meteor is stone or iron?


21 posted on 02/09/2016 12:22:03 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: CARTOUCHE

However, if the meteor was at just the right angle, at the right speed, and has the right composition and mass, it could pass on through the water and into the seafloor ... huge tsunami plus fireball throwing matter into the upper atmosphere.


22 posted on 02/09/2016 12:25:05 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: CARTOUCHE
There's a 75% chance it won't hit a landmass.

Funny how that's never accounted for. An ocean strike would also create beaucoup water vapor, a much more potent global warming agent than CO2.

23 posted on 02/09/2016 12:26:09 PM PST by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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To: BenLurkin

Solve globull warming...


24 posted on 02/09/2016 12:29:54 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: DBrow; Varmint Al

Your arguments are “obtuse”...LOL


25 posted on 02/09/2016 12:31:37 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

actually this is exactly the kind of stuff governments should be doing. The prime reason for the existence of governments is to protect their countries from extinction. We know from geological records that big asteroids and comets have hit the earth. Only now have we progressed to the point to actually be able to do anything about it. If action is taken enough in advance slight nudges of an asteroid could save us from extinction


26 posted on 02/09/2016 12:34:21 PM PST by plain talk
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To: BenLurkin

Just require all airconditioners and refrigerators to use freon again, and sell aerosols with proper propellants. Get those ozone levels back up in no time.

“. Indeed, atmospheric ozone would be temporarily reduced by 55 percent”


27 posted on 02/09/2016 12:39:14 PM PST by PAR35
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To: BenLurkin

Lucifer’s Hammer.


28 posted on 02/09/2016 12:45:10 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: YouPosting2Me
drill a hole with some evil oil guys and blow it in half?

And turn one falling object into two...

29 posted on 02/09/2016 12:47:19 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: plain talk

” If action is taken enough in advance slight nudges of an asteroid could save us from extinction”

Can I be in charge of asteroid control? I’ll rule the world. Step out of line and I’ll go all Tunguska on your puny city!

Tweaking asteroids can go both ways, away, and toward, Earth. You want to be very cautious of who gets that power.


30 posted on 02/09/2016 1:09:53 PM PST by DBrow
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To: grobdriver

Footfall.


31 posted on 02/09/2016 1:10:39 PM PST by DBrow
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To: House Atreides

OMG! OMG!! OMG!!! AGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

“A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll get me a drink.”


32 posted on 02/09/2016 1:37:34 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Vendome

Very “acute” of you to notice.


33 posted on 02/09/2016 1:46:20 PM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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