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Will Mercury Hit Earth Someday?
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| April 24, 2008
| Ken Croswell
Posted on 05/01/2008 7:39:20 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: weegee
Good news is if you change the type of car you drive, buy new toxic lightbulbs, and forgo any further use of toilet paper, the world AS WE KNOW IT can remain Mercury-impact free IN OUR LIFETIME!!! Personally, I'm scrambling to "CHANGE" my lifestyle to help make it happen. /SARCASM!
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posted on
05/01/2008 7:59:00 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Will Mercury Hit Earth Someday?I think he already has...
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:01:15 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(This is an Obama-nation!)
To: b4its2late
Algore will save us! You do realize that in the morning, if your lucky, you are going to awake from your dreams, right? ; )
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:01:46 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: NordP
This all is a moot point, because Ted Turner said wed all be gone because we turned to cannibalism by 2050. /sarc
In the year, 2049
You'll do anything to stay alive
Even barbeque your bride
In 2049
Duck and Run!
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:04:01 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Great, Velikovsky was right...
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
October 22nd. ... around tea time ....
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:05:32 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Great Danger Lies In The Notion That We Can Reason With Evil")
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; All
One must ask: ‘What about Uranus?’
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:06:40 PM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Shellback, pollywogs! 1980)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Will Mercury Hit Earth Someday? Only if you drop that compact flourescent light bulb while forced to replace your incandescent bulbs. Then watch out!!! All heck is going to break out!!!
-PJ
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:08:03 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Quick! Where can I buy Mercury credits?
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:12:43 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: mnehrling
I guess someone has to say it... Bushs Fault!Nah. He'll just build another agency like Department of Mercury Security and hire TSA types to keep an eye on the planet.
Code Red for the "Red Planet" will be appropriate.
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:14:44 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: EGPWS
"Mercury poisoning?!"
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:17:46 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
That thar article has a wee bit of conjecture in it...
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:22:51 PM PDT
by
Fichori
(Truth is one of those non-negotiable facts of life that most people cannot stand.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"Once Mercury crosses Venus's orbit," Laughlin says, "Mercury is in serious trouble." So is Earth.
Oh no! What about Uranus?
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:26:00 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: notdownwidems
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posted on
05/01/2008 8:29:59 PM PDT
by
Kimmers
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I blame Al Gore and his carbon footprint. It is affecting solar stabilization. He needs to lose a little weight and learn how to walk quietly.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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posted on
05/01/2008 9:11:57 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Ted Kennedy - Codename -> "Bobber")
To: VeniVidiVici
Mercury Poisoning Lyrics
Maybe they think I'm a pet Well I've got all the diseases I'm breaking out in sweat, you bet, CHORUS I got, Mercury poisoning It's fatal and it don't get better I got, Mercury poisoning The best kept secret in the we—est, hey the we—est The boys and me are getting real well known around town But every time we try to spread the action Someone always brings it down, down I ate the orange and I don't feel well For them it's inconvenience for me it's hell
The geriatric staff think we're freaks
They couldn't sell kebabs to the Greeks, the geeks
Inaction speaks, and
CHORUS
BRIDGE Is this a Russian conspiracy, no it's just idiocy Is this a Chinese burn I gotta dinosaur for a representative It's got a small brain and refuses to learn Their promotion's so lame
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posted on
05/01/2008 9:49:01 PM PDT
by
JimC214
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
...there's only about a 1% chance that Mercury will go crazy before the Sun bloats into a red giant billions of years from now. IOW, about the same odds of everyone on the planet Earth winning the lotto simultaneously.
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posted on
05/01/2008 10:18:20 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: PeaceBeWithYou
IOW, about the same odds [,100 to 1, against Mercury's orbit becoming unstable as the odds] of everyone on the planet Earth winning the lotto simultaneously. Not at all. The odds against six billion people (choosing independently and randomly) picking the same, say six out of 80 numbers, and then having those numbers selected in a random drawing is less than one with fifty-million zeros after it, effectively impossible. (Assuming you grant everyone one entry.) One hundred to one against events occur every day. Would you get on an airplane that had a one in a hundred chance of crashing?
If it does occur, it will be millions of years in the future. The process would be slow, but inexoriable. Each Mercurial year, Mercury's orbit would become a little more enlongated. Assuming Earth is inhabited by a technologically advanced civilization at that time, they would see it coming millions of years in advance.
To: EGPWS
If we change our cars, and lightbulbs, and give up toilet paper, etc. the world as we know it IS changed for the worse.
Moving into a cave won’t improve “the world” but it’ll regress us to living like cavemen or those in the third world. And that’ll be a change for the worse.
We have it too good. Better live a little less well off, because well it’s shameful to be better off in America.
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posted on
05/02/2008 8:13:55 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
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