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Good News Everyone! There are Fewer Deadly Undiscovered Asteroids than we Thought
Universe Today ^
| 10/20/2017
| Matt Williams
Posted on 10/21/2017 2:32:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:32:42 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Crap. Now the Algore Loser crowd will go back to pimping “global warming” harder than ever.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:35:40 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Has Sheila JACKSON LEE changed her name yet?)
To: BenLurkin
A. It only takes one.
B. There are likely plenty of unknown unknown classes.
C. See A.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:37:22 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: BenLurkin
There is a relation between frequency and size.
As Ted Danson put it, “It was like throwing a
hot dog down a hallway.”
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:38:22 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: Paladin2
It’s like a I used to tell my kids. A scientific pronouncement is only valid until the next scientific pronouncement on the same subject comes a long.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:38:57 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: sparklite2
As Ted Danson put it, It was like throwing a hot dog down a hallway. Did he say that when he was dating Whoopi?
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
But then it only takes one.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:40:16 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: BenLurkin
reduced the total number of undiscovered objects that remain undiscovered.
How does one do that? Reduce the estimate perhaps.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:40:24 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: BookmanTheJanitor
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:42:44 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: BenLurkin
If they’re unknown, then how do we know there are fewer?
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:44:24 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: BenLurkin
Did the global warming kill them or did they run away from the threat of EMP?
12
posted on
10/21/2017 2:45:18 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
To: Bryanw92; Lazmataz
Did the global warming kill them or did they run away from the threat of EMP?
They saw that Lazmataz had already hit it.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:49:11 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: BenLurkin
I can now sleep more soundly.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:52:37 PM PDT
by
Parmy
To: BenLurkin
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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posted on
10/21/2017 2:57:20 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: GingisK
Good point.
Without evidence of existence there’s no reason to suppose something exists.
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posted on
10/21/2017 3:00:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: JimSEA
How does one do that?
_____________________________________________
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence?
I mean, if we don’t know they’re there, they can’t exist, right?
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posted on
10/21/2017 3:08:55 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
Yep, just like those Kraut tanks that keep busting out of the Ardennes when everyone says there is no evidence of anything unusual in there.
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posted on
10/21/2017 3:19:56 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: BenLurkin
The good news is that there are fewer asteroids.
The bad news is that that’s because the Zycathian Invasion Fleet blasted most of them to clear a path to earth.
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posted on
10/21/2017 3:28:47 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: GingisK
Back in the day, that did happen often enough to be considered a predictable pattern.
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posted on
10/21/2017 3:32:30 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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