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The Comet That Created The Perseids Might Bring An End To Humanity
Forbes ^
| 11 Aug, 2017
| Ethan Siegel
Posted on 08/12/2017 8:21:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: ichabod1
women and minorities hardest hitDon't forget the children too!
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:42:13 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(President Reagan, your worthy successor has arrived to save our beloved America)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
What? We can’t blame this on global warming?
Wait, wait,......
I know it’s because Trump pulled out of the Paris agreement.
You’re right, it is Trump’s fault!
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:44:43 AM PDT
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
To: MtnClimber
Forbes has been working methodically and diligently for months to make their site totally unreadable from an iPhone. Today they have finally succeeded. I will have to wait till I’m on my computer to read this article, that looks interesting.
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:46:55 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
To: MtnClimber
“Humanity ends. Women and Minorities hardest hit”
-NYT headline
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:49:01 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
To: ichabod1
Dang it — I missed your post!
Oh well — GMTA
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:49:33 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
To: TexasGator
I posted this because the Perseids meteor shower peaks tonight.
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:49:55 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: samtheman
The article has a good photo of the comet from 1992. I saw it without a telescope.
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:53:45 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Compared to all the other real or imaginary possibilities that may spell the end of humanity, this one has to rank very low in the range of probabilities. We are in WAY more danger from Kim Jong Un, as a means of “end of humanity” than we are by a chance encounter with a shower of meteors.
The operative word here is “might”, Then again, there is the very high probability that all these events “might not” affect mankind in any significant way, shape, manner, or form.
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:54:32 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
To: MtnClimber
Thanks. I didn’t get past the second paragraph!
To: MtnClimber
Ok, I received the transmission.
The Perseids peak tonight.
My uncle has a long mustache.
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posted on
08/12/2017 8:56:34 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MtnClimber
I love it! But we’ve got to wait another 2400 years -— grrr.
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posted on
08/12/2017 9:00:49 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Point of Fact.)
To: tet68
Maybe burn up but still we’d get to watch it for
eight minutes.
I’d have to go pick some mushrooms for that.
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posted on
08/12/2017 9:01:40 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
The sun is shining
But the ice is slippery
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posted on
08/12/2017 9:02:44 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I love it! But we’ve got to wait another 2400 years -— grrr.It'll be here before you know it.
To: MtnClimber
This sucker is 16 miles wide. Whoah Nelly. Long before 2400 yrs from now we would be able to divert it from hitting the earth.
To: MtnClimber
I would’ve went to Forbes to read the rest of the article but the site won’t let me in unless I disable my ad-blocker software. Like going to Forbes is some great privilege, get bent.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
How could anything get close enough to hit the Sun? Wouldn’t anything (a big old rock, a planet-sized whatever, a Rocket Ship, a Mini Van?) burn up well before it could hit it? Not if it happened at night.
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posted on
08/12/2017 9:16:00 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Modern astronomy seems able to predict when a comet will come within the vacinity of Earth making a hit possible. But the Earth is a tiny target in that vacinity so a hit is very unlikely.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I’m certainly NOT going to lose sleep over what MAY BE happening in space 2,400 YEARS from now. That is wise.
However at some point in the future odds are we will get hit. So it is important that we figure out a way off this dirt ball and on to another one. Ideally, several other ones.
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posted on
08/12/2017 9:25:13 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: MtnClimber
The Comet That Created The Perseids Might Bring An End To Humanity
—
Stuff HaPPens.
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posted on
08/12/2017 9:36:02 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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