Thanks BenLurkin. I suggest they drop the test bolide directly on Tehran.
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Posted on 04/26/2019 7:37:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
They hope to learn the best strategies for responding to a potential strike, starting from the moment a threatening asteroid is first detected by astronomers.
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office will team up with other partners to perform a “tabletop exercise” on how they’d handle the news of a (fictional) asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
On March 26, 2019, astronomers discover an asteroid in the night sky, far dimmer than Pluto to their telescopes. They name it 2019 PDC. Initially, it appears that the asteroid’s eccentric orbit bring it within approximately 18 times the Moon’s distance from the Earth, with a chance of hitting the Earth at one in 50,000 in 2027.
Astronomers continue to track the object as it gets closer. They learn it could be somewhere between 100 and 300 meters wide—the size of a skyscraper. After a month of tracking, the probability of collision with Earth is now 1 percent—the threshold at which international organizations have agreed they must take action.
Its potential paths intersect the United States, some of western Africa, and the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
The fictional 2019 PDC describes a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” the kind that orbits close to Earth and that could have a catastrophic impact if it actually struck the planet.... The new simulation instead will focus less on the scientific questions, and more on governmental response.
This simulation is the sixth near-Earth-object impact exercise that NASA has taken part in. Not only do these exercises help NASA officials think through what they’d do in the event of a threat, but they also help them know what information is most important to FEMA and other agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
It will be re-named Wormwood
Rev.8:11
I’m not saying it’s an asteroid, but that just made me think of this reference:
Luke 21:26 King James Version
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Thanks BenLurkin. I suggest they drop the test bolide directly on Tehran.
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Children are to duck and cover under their desks.
Just think how much money the Department of Education could spend making millions of glossy brochures to be handed out to children to take home to their parents.
Can I get the contract, please?—it would be like winning Powerball!
LOL That’s good!!!
Worst of a worst scenario, asteroid enters atmosphere, hits Yellowstone, impact also reverses earths magnetic poles.
Worst of a worst scenario, asteroid enters atmosphere, hits Yellowstone, impact also reverses earths magnetic poles.
and causes nuclear winter lasting centuries, which brings on mass starvation, reducing the human population to just under 100 million widely scattered across the planet.
At least it would put an end to rap music.
I’ll commit suicide by binge watching Oprah......A horrible way to go but very quick.
At least it would put an end to rap music.
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Yes there is that blessing but on the downside it will be rediscovered some 10-15000 years in the future since that is how long it took for it to be rediscovered this time around.
There is a distinct possibility that rap music attracts these strikes, or its just that the Earth passes through the denser part of the Taurid cloud with mile diameter rocks - a remnant of a very large broken up comet.
Lol!
Nice name on that one, eh?
Going to visit Detroit?
I was thinking “They’re wasting their time; it’s already been done”.
It’s a darned shame nobody’s made a movie out of that one.
They’ll be giving us that advice AFTER they’re hiding in their bunkers. 3 days max warning to us too.
[At least it would put an end to rap music.]
That is very true.
:)
I always thought Wormwood would be a comet.
This kind of stuff is coming down the pipe one way or another however.
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