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UN urged to take action on asteroids
National Post ^
| Feb 19, 2007
| James Clwan
Posted on 02/19/2007 11:07:31 AM PST by Big Mack
Scientists and former astronauts this weekend called upon the United Nations to protect Earth from cataclysmic asteroid strikes.
Delegates at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Francisco this weekend learned an asteroid strike is an absolute certainty unless the international community rallies to prevent it.
"The likelihood of a strike is 100%," said Russell Schweickart, a former astronaut who went into orbit in 1969 as a member of the Apollo 9 crew. "The question is whether it will happen within my lifetime or your lifetime."
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: endofworld; un
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Does this mean that global warming is now over? Poor ALGORE, he was that close to total fame and recognition. Tomorrow he will be another "what's his name?'
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:07:33 AM PST
by
Big Mack
To: Big Mack
"........called upon the United Nations to protect Earth from cataclysmic asteroid strikes."
Is it me or is that the funniest damned thing posted on FR since it's inception?
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:09:37 AM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Big Mack
Good heavens. The UN cannot protect women and girls in Africa from UN WORKERS! How in the name of all that is holy can they protect the world from asteroids????
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:09:38 AM PST
by
trimom
To: Big Mack
So if I read the headline correctly, we are shipping the UN off to an asteroid. Isn't that appropriate.
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:09:41 AM PST
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Big Mack
If an asteroid hits, the earth will have global freezing not global warming. Besides, the UN can't find its butt from a whole in the ground.
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:09:49 AM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Big Mack
"The likelihood of a strike is 100%," said Russell Schweickart, a former astronaut who went into orbit in 1969 as a member of the Apollo 9 crew. "The question is whether it will happen within my lifetime or your lifetime." Or even in the next ten thousand years. What happened to Rusty Schweickart.......
Between this and global warming we are surely doomed!
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:10:08 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Big Mack
I don't think protecting the planet against asteroids is a bad idea.
Giving the job to the U.N. is...
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:10:08 AM PST
by
Paul Ross
(Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
To: Big Mack
Preparation H will take care of them.
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:10:15 AM PST
by
Lokibob
(Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
To: taxed2death
Upon reading the headline I thought it must be from scrappleface.....
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:10:57 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Big Mack
It's too late...already working on...PREPARATION H! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:11:25 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
To: Big Mack
Estimates are that it would cost $300 million to save the earth.
That's cheap!
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:11:43 AM PST
by
mc6809e
To: Big Mack
Jeez, I have to start reading these headlines more carefully. Initially I thought it read hemorrhoids.
To: Big Mack
The UN seeks to undermine NASA, the only body of any significance tracking these things.
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:11:56 AM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Big Mack
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:12:07 AM PST
by
Fighting Irish
(enter your tagline here ... for only $29.95 per day get noticed by millions of viewers)
To: Big Mack
"Do you have Asteroids?"
"Naw - but my old man does - can't even sit on the toilet sometimes..."
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:12:29 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Every time a jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings.)
To: Big Mack
See, the sky IS falling!
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:12:53 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(It's race time again!)
To: Big Mack
That asteroid doesn't stand a chance.
To: Big Mack; All
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:14:16 AM PST
by
musicman
To: Big Mack
The little ones always posed the most problems for me.
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:15:31 AM PST
by
jdm
To: Big Mack
Oh, wait, I thought you meant "steroids!"
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:16:38 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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