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Action urged to deal with asteroid likely to hit Earth (Please read and respond to my comment)
Todayonline ^ | 12-08-05 | Guardian

Posted on 12/09/2005 9:07:47 AM PST by emiller

LONDON — Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390m-wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima.

Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere. In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.

The experts fear that there is very little time left to decide.

(Excerpt) Read more at todayonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: apophis; asteroid
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To: Antonello
"if it goes through a 'keyhole' in space about 641m wide"

If it's 642m in dia, I'd geuss that it wouldn't fit and we'd have to acquit.

41 posted on 12/09/2005 9:24:48 AM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

In other words, it will miss us by 24,000 miles.


42 posted on 12/09/2005 9:25:33 AM PST by Pessimist
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To: emiller

I've been training this butterfly...if ANY asteroid comes within 20,000 miles from earth, my butterfly will flap it's wings at the given coords...11 hours 6 minutes and 39 seconds later, the * air displacement* from the butterfly's wings will have powered up and condensed itself into a funnel tornadoee type cyclone hurricane thing that will steer the asteroid away from our drop of water in space.
that * Funnel tornadoee type cyclone hurricane thing* will be 100,002 times stronger than any * Funnel tornadoee type cyclone hurricane thing* ever produced.


so yeh...bases are covered, let's just hope the asteroid comes across my space and hope that my butterfly can live another 30 odd years


43 posted on 12/09/2005 9:25:57 AM PST by kajingawd (" happy with stone underhead, let Heaven and Earth go about their changes")
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To: NeonKnight

ah fuggedaboudit....looks like something pretty wicked comes our way. (remember john is describing his vision where he was able to see the heavenly realm AND the earthly realm)
from this it looks like something not only comes into the earth's atmosphere but affects other bodies as well or at least stirs up enough in the atmosphere so it darkens the other heavenly bodies.

Revelation 8:6-12

Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them. The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.


44 posted on 12/09/2005 9:26:26 AM PST by applpie
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To: JamesP81
"We will need a robotic spacecraft capable of moving to an asteroid"

This is feasable given enough for-warning and time to plan (which we obviously have). We simply preset large amounts of solid rocket fuel into orbit (or other type of fuel to be determined), and then launch a mission to put the robot to link up in orbit with it. From there, the robot will have enough fuel to rendezvous with the NEO many months (or years) before impact, and with enough fuel left over (planned this way) mount the object and continuously fire it's rockets against the object in a direction perpendicular to it's trajectory (or however it should be engineered so that the tragectory is altered sufficiently).
45 posted on 12/09/2005 9:26:45 AM PST by z3n
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To: KevinDavis
The bigger question is what is Bush doing about this???

I'm sure he's got Karl Rove working on it, figuring out just how to tweak the Earth Whacker 3000 so it sends the asteroid to the one spot on the earth where it will kill the most blacks.

46 posted on 12/09/2005 9:26:49 AM PST by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: KevinDavis

No the question is "why is Bush causing this?"


47 posted on 12/09/2005 9:27:43 AM PST by jbwbubba
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To: boomop1
"Let me see, I'll be 93 something to look forward to."

I will be 92, if I live that long..
What, me worry?
Oh, wait...We are all gonna freeze to death because of
global warming....hmm, I must need another glass of wine.
48 posted on 12/09/2005 9:27:58 AM PST by AlexW
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To: emiller

Maybe it's making room for the anticipated hyper-space bypass.


49 posted on 12/09/2005 9:29:06 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: kentj

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/279839.stm


50 posted on 12/09/2005 9:30:07 AM PST by xmission
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To: emiller

Karl Rove is using NASA to make sure the asteroid hits Chappaqua, New York.


51 posted on 12/09/2005 9:30:15 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: emiller
BUT--- Magically, the U.S., and bunches of other countries have found the time, energy, and bucks to launch mission after mission to asteroids/comets. Huh?


I'm sure that some of it is just that "life goes on" type of outlook and projects don't shut down just because of the rise and fall of most domestic concerns. If a nation wants to maintain a degree of prestige and the investment interest that comes with it and to continue to produce a stready stream of scientists, engineers, doctors, and whatnot then these projects have to continue. Just think of all that was going on when we first landed on the moon.

That too, the more we learn about our little corner of the world, the better the chances that we will continue to have a place to live.
52 posted on 12/09/2005 9:30:55 AM PST by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: emiller

Regarding your question with your friends, my opinion would be that the conspiracy would be too vast to succeed. By the time it could be confirmed, the possibility of such a strike would be vetted at multiple levels, too many too allow such a conspiracy to succeed.

Just my opinion.

I'm also not so certain people would panic. 2036 may as well be infinity, for most TV-addled brains.


53 posted on 12/09/2005 9:31:17 AM PST by linear
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To: jbwbubba
No the question is "why is Bush causing this?"

That's easy - besides killing all the blacks, Halliburton wants all the dilithium crystals, and if it hits the earth they don't have to spend any money mining them - they just have to go to the hole in the ground and pick the crystals up.

54 posted on 12/09/2005 9:31:24 AM PST by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: jbwbubba; All

DOH! Maybe we should elect the Constitution Party.. They would do something about it..


55 posted on 12/09/2005 9:31:52 AM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: Paladin2
If it's 642m in dia, I'd geuss that it wouldn't fit and we'd have to acquit

Well, first of all, the asteroid is about 390m wide, which is smaller than the keyhole. Second, I neglected to fully detail that it is the center mass of the asteroid, and not the asteroid in its entirety, that would have to pass through the keyhole in order for its trajectory to become, well, problematic.

56 posted on 12/09/2005 9:32:33 AM PST by Antonello
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To: emiller

Not to worry, at the last minute a pack of warped, grubby, sorry-a$$ed wildcat drillers will go up into space and save us all.


57 posted on 12/09/2005 9:34:14 AM PST by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: linear

Nah, movie and tv-buffs know we'd find a way to destory the damager just seconds before it would be too late.


58 posted on 12/09/2005 9:36:07 AM PST by GOPPachyderm
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To: Soul_of_Chogokin
Not if it hits the water.

Surfs up :]

59 posted on 12/09/2005 9:36:12 AM PST by The Turbanator
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To: emiller

At last. An economical solution for the global warming problem. Just think of all the solar energy all that dust would reflect out into space.


60 posted on 12/09/2005 9:36:50 AM PST by p. henry
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