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1 posted on 02/14/2016 12:35:01 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

we have Bruce Willis for that :)


2 posted on 02/14/2016 12:37:01 PM PST by dp0622
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To: BenLurkin

Wouldn’t it be easier to shoot them while they are still meteors?

What good does it do to shoot them once they have landed?


3 posted on 02/14/2016 12:38:42 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: BenLurkin

suuure, Russia.


5 posted on 02/14/2016 12:41:44 PM PST by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Kaysick, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: BenLurkin

Or high orbit satellites.


6 posted on 02/14/2016 12:43:16 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: BenLurkin

Riiiiigghtt....in other news, ISIS is given 1.6 billon dollars to combat global warming.


9 posted on 02/14/2016 12:47:26 PM PST by wyokostur
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, good. So rather than have one block-sized chunk of rock rain down, we’ll have eight 1/8th block chunks of possibly radioactive rock rain down.


10 posted on 02/14/2016 12:55:52 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: BenLurkin

silly Russians, everyone know that would like having a firecracker on you open palm.

you have to drill.


13 posted on 02/14/2016 12:58:51 PM PST by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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15 posted on 02/14/2016 1:03:21 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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“A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust.[1][2][3][4] Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.[5][6][7][8]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor
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Asteroids vary greatly in size, from almost 1000 km for the largest down to rocks just tens of metres across.[note 3] The three largest are very much like miniature planets: they are roughly spherical, have at least partly differentiated interiors,[33] and are thought to be surviving protoplanets. The vast majority, however, are much smaller and are irregularly shaped; they are thought to be either surviving planetesimals or fragments of larger bodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid#Size_distribution


16 posted on 02/14/2016 1:07:09 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: BenLurkin
in contrast to modern missile systems, which require several days of preparation ahead of a launch.

Oh, horse crap! A willfully ignorant writer!

18 posted on 02/14/2016 1:40:13 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: BenLurkin

Won’t do much good to shoot a meteorite.


21 posted on 02/14/2016 3:06:40 PM PST by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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