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Warehouse-sized asteroid whipped by Earth and no one saw it coming
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| Sept. 24, 2021 8:29 a.m. PT
| Eric Mack
Posted on 09/26/2021 8:00:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:00:19 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Inside the moons orbit. Pretty big. If it was a rubble pile dangerous. It it was Nickle iron? Devastating if it landed close to populated area.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:05:51 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: BenLurkin
Are we talked 1,000 sq ft warehouse? 100,000 sq ft? Makes a difference.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:08:04 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(Some people like to argue just to argue.)
To: BenLurkin
“...went undetected as they approached us because they came from the direction of the sun. “
Like the Japanese Imperial Airforce?
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:08:35 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:11:03 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
(Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
To: Pollard
Are we talked 1,000 sq ft warehouse? 100,000 sq ft? Makes a difference. I never understand these Metric measurements.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:17:39 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:20:16 AM PDT
by
albie
To: BenLurkin
Another one ???
This "near miss" asteroid thingie seems to be a weekly occurrence lately. My guess is that it's been going on ever since Earth was formed, and that we're just now getting a grip on tracking the little beasties.
Either way, if one hits then there ain't nothin' we can do about it, and whatever critter inherits the Earth afterwards will be putting the oil from our fossiled corpses into their SUV's .....
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:25:57 AM PDT
by
Mr_Moonlight
(Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
To: BenLurkin
One of those puppies has our name on it, but we believers will not be here when it hits. We’ll be watching from the heavenly mezzanine.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:27:43 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: BenLurkin
Warehouse-sized asteroid whipped by Earth and no one saw it comingThe Biden Admistration has now outlawed asteroids due to the large rocks reverting to a terrible practice of our history in this country.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:28:14 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(I will not do business with fascists)
To: Pollard
It’s like getting hit by a bus vs. hit by a train I guess.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:28:25 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Mr_Moonlight
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:29:39 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(I will not do business with fascists)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:33:54 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
(20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Vaquero
Someone needs to make a list of major ‘hits’ in the last thousand years. Could add some perspective to these stories.
Number of people killed by asteroids in last thousand years...
Number killed by wars in the last thousand years...
By cars...
By horse and buggy...
by falling off a ladder...
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:35:14 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
To: BenLurkin
I could have stored stuff in that.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:35:19 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
spacecraft in 2026, which will be parked at a spot in space between Earth and the sun so it can detect the objects we can't see from here. Space alien in mothership behind the Sun: Darn it all. What if I forget and walk out of the shower without a towel on me and some NASA creep on Earth is peeping at me.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:35:49 AM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: Pollard
The one which hit AZ and formed the meteor crater was about 100 ft big.
That was a meteor.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:47:25 AM PDT
by
crz
To: BenLurkin
NASA is like the cops—they will have the “experts” on scene with the blue paint after the asteroid hits.
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:49:53 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: GOPJ
If you go back a little further you could add to the list:
“Number of dinosaurs killed by asteroids....”
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posted on
09/26/2021 8:51:22 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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