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Asteroid the size of a HOUSE to skim past Earth at one-eighth the distance of the Moon
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| 16:26, 2 OCT 2017
| By ophie Curtis
Posted on 10/02/2017 10:06:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
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What could possibly go wrong?.........................
To: Red Badger
A tidal wave in my bathtub?
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:08:00 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: Red Badger
Not big enough to rate capital letters.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:09:17 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
To: Red Badger
Q. What could possibly go wrong?
A. It could miss Mecca.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:09:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Paladin2
It is developing a special type of spacecraft called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), which is about the size of a fridge, and can be fired at an asteroid with enough force to change its trajectory. NASA plans to test out DART on a pair of asteroids named Didymos A and B, which are scheduled to make a "distant approach" to Earth in October 2022.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:10:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Paladin2
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:10:30 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
To: BenLurkin
LOL
Dang!
I wish I thought of that.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:11:11 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
To: Red Badger
It would be pretty funny if it hit a North Korean satellite. Imagine the fat slob bloviating about that one
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:11:14 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
To: Red Badger
“one-eighth the distance of the Moon”
All right! Kudos to the headline writer for NOT writing the usual “eight times less than the distance of the Moon.”
To: Red Badger
Well if you ask me perhaps it’s time for her mother to wipe out it’s inhabitants and let it here and start over
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:20:43 AM PDT
by
al baby
(May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
To: Red Badger
yep , Global Warming is sucking them in
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:22:47 AM PDT
by
butlerweave
(it's the children are)
To: Red Badger
Something like this is what is a threat to humanity, not CO2.
Meteor strikes are the cause of mass extinctions, not plant food.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:24:58 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Red Badger
"Scientists plan to use the close flyby of 2012 TC4 as an opportunity to test out their planetary defence system"
We have a planetary defence system?
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:26:00 AM PDT
by
chrisser
To: chrisser
Not yet..................
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:27:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
One hiccup and the dinosaurs will be extinct again.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:30:12 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: chrisser
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:31:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
This made me think what would happen if a baseball-sized piece of this hit Mecca. Considering the extent of the damage & what those people might believe about is scarey.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:33:50 AM PDT
by
oldtech
To: chrisser
“We have a planetary defence system?”
Clintoon gave it to the Little Rocket Man.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:35:11 AM PDT
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: Red Badger
Aaargh,l! Can we stop dumbing down science and just use cubic meters and kilograms so everyone can understand the joules of energy released should such a body hit the earth?!
I’m so tired of hearing the stupid side of earthlings refer to things as “the size of a house”, “the size of a bus”, “three times as large as the Hiroshima bomb”, “weighing more than fifteen elephants”, etc., it is just stupid to assume some jackass in the MSM even knows what that means, so we ought to be hitting back with really comprehensible information.
I always want to ask, “who’s house?”, “what kind of bus”, “African or Asian elephants - male or female, and how old?”.
This faux science reporting drives me crazy because of the assumed ignorance of the viewers, when the talking heads are even less informed about what they read on their teleprompters.
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:41:23 AM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: Red Badger
Oh, my! The size of a house!?! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
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posted on
10/02/2017 10:43:33 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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