Americans warned of imminent, deadly meteor strikes: Famous strategy recommended to survive

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 13, 2014 | Bob Unruh

[2ndDivisionVet]

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With NASA reporting a “potentially hazardous” asteroid nearly half-a-mile wide possibly heading toward earth, and some upstate New Yorkers claiming they experienced a loud boom and a bright light in the sky last night caused by a meteor, a doctors’ organization is offering some timely advice:

Just as when the American populace first prepared for the possibility of a nuclear blast, a person’s best option for surviving a meteor strike is the same “duck and cover” created during the 1940s and ’50s when nuclear weaponry was still in its infancy.

The warning comes from Physicians for Civil Defense, which issued a statement recently during a meeting of the Emergency Management Agency of Utah.

“All Americans, starting with first responders and emergency managers, need to know this basic life-saving principle: ‘Drop and cover if you see a sudden very bright light,’” said the statement from the organization’s spokeswoman, Jane Orient, M.D.

“Such a light will be followed by a deadly shock wave within seconds. Those who drop and cover will probably survive. Those who do not are likely to be killed or suffer severe injury.”

The organization’s goal is to save lives of first responders in the event of disasters, “especially terrorist attacks using dirty bombs or nuclear weapons.”(continued)

[ScottinVA]

“Oh great. Can you imagine the hysteria that can build in 100 years?”

That’ll be the next money-making scheme for the “science” community. The “consensus” will try telling the masses CO2 in the atmosphere not only causes globalclimatewarmingchange, it invites asteroids to destroy the planet. Settled science! Unfalsifiable!

[MaxMax]

Does all the gum under it help any?

[Tennessee Conservative]

For extra protection you should get under a 1950’s style school desk.

I learned that technique well when I was a kid. I was in elementary school in South Florida during the Cuban Missile crisis in the early 60's. We could see Cape Canaveral from our school. Bomb drills were a daily exercise for us and I spent a lot of time under that old desk.

[moose07]

Yep, the gum moulds to the cranium and helps cushion the impact of the falling roof.

[Caipirabob]

Premise for a new show: Earth is to be hit by a giant meteor. Obama and Eric Holder decide to save the nations "greatest talents" and move the entire DNC and it's members along with Hollywood's Elite into a bomb shelter. People like Sean Penn, Alex Baldwin, Ben Affleck, Barbara Streisand, Kanye and Sofa girl, Whoopie Goldberg, Snookie, Harvey Weinstein and other similar filth move in side by side with the obamas, Al Sharpton, Hillary, Anthony Weiner and other main players from the liberal menagerie.

Hijinx ensue...

Season 1 Episode 1: "Has anyone seen Joe Biden..." What kind of trouble has slow Joe gotten into now the gang wonders.

Season 1 Episode 2: "About that Ben Ghazi report..." Payback is a B@ and some of those testimonies left a bad taste in someone's mouth.

Season 1: Episode 3: "No more Global Warming..." It's a scorched world after all, but we've finally ended anthropomorphic global warming - mankind is saved. The gang takes some time to celebrate.

[ilovesarah2012]

The least of my worries.

[SunkenCiv]

NASA Finds New Asteroid Headed in Our Direction
Though it won’t come near Earth for at least a century
http://science.time.com/2014/01/09/nasa-finds-new-asteroid-headed-in-our-direction/

[SunkenCiv]

Rain of Iron and Ice:
The Very Real Threat of
Comet and Asteroid Bombardment
by John S. Lewis

On November 27,1919, a meteorite fell into Lake Michigan near the Michigan shore. "Residents of Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Grand Haven, and other Western Michigan cities fled from their homes in panic, fearing an earthquake. Houses were shaken, the country was illuminated as by a bright sun's rays, so all-enveloping it was impossible to tell from which direction the flare came, the earth trembled for half a moment and then came a deep prolonged rumbling as of a terrific explosion." (p 159)

[Jim Noble]

[LibLieSlayer]

I am getting into a fox hole with Denise Richards.

[Riley]

Something does not quite add up because at that distance over that time velocity calculates to around 30 mph. I'm pretty sure asteroids travel at least 55 PG to conserve gas. /S

It's been doing 30 MPH for the last 4 million miles. In the left lane. With its turn signal on.

[DManA]

The article is not exactly fact based.

[jsanders2001]

> I am getting into a fox hole with Denise Richards.

Maybe when the movie was made but not today...lol

[SunkenCiv]

It’s in an orbit around the Sun, as is the Earth; the orbits more or less cross each other, but like the old kid’s toy the Spirograph, it takes many revolutions for both bodies to be in the same place at the same time.

The source of this scare story is World Nut Daily, but the threat of bolide impacts is real. Even with over 15 years (more like 20 now) of worldwide efforts to find this space debris, we’re still at the point of zero or near-zero warning when a piece comes down, as it did in Siberia a couple years ago.

If something a half mile wide crashed down, civilization would be likely done with for centuries if not thousands of years.

[SunkenCiv]

Drop and Cover if You See A Bright Flash
http://www.physiciansforcivildefense.org/2014/01/14/drop-and-cover-if-you-see-a-bright-flash/

Climate Extremism
http://www.physiciansforcivildefense.org/2013/01/29/climate-extremism/

[Fzob]

It's been doing 30 MPH for the last 4 million miles. In the left lane. With its turn signal on.

Humm, that about 15 years in the fast lane at 30 MPH. In NJ that could get you killed.

[LibLieSlayer]

It was never going to be reality... now you have made me sad! ;-)

[Eaker]

LOL!

[Dallas59]

“Her” name is “Delicious”....

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, at least it’s not Latrina.