Posted on 01/18/2014 6:16:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
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)
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
And I quickly see on archive.org...
https://archive.org/details/SpacePatrolEpisode2TheWanderingAsteroid
Space Patrol Episode 2 The Wandering Asteroid (1963)
>>The only thing that they didn’t tell us — Once under the desk, after you’ve tucked your head between your legs, kiss your a$$ goodbye. We figured out that last part for ourselves even as grade schoolers.
So did I. Then, I grew up and learned that nuclear weapons have a fireball radius (where you kiss your a$$ goodbye) and they have a much larger overpressure radius, where you die from flying glass and debris and hiding under a desk and staying away from windows actually can save your life.
/spits out cyanide pill
:)
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
Meteor impacts are a very real danger. Skeptics seem to have already gone alzheimers on the Chelyabinsk flyby that blasted out windows and injured 5,000 a few months back. That was an air burst 20 miles high. There was NO WARNING, it was not spotted by our half hearted Sky Watch program. If it had been an impact, Chelyabinsk would have been cratered. In the months following Chelyabinsk, around a dozen other flybys occurred. We live in a cosmic shooting gallery.
10,000 years ago a meteor chain and associated debris struck from Central Mexico to the Midwest starting a short lived ice age and wiping out almost all live on the continent. This is no freaking joke.
http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/
http://cosmictusk.com/clovis-population-decline-at-younger-dryas
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/
100 years ago a meteor exploded over Tunguska, Siberia leveling 800 square miles of forest.
The only reason this danger is being suppressed and ridiculed is because we couldn’t have our leftist scientists and nuclear disarmament pacifists admitting that our ICBM nuclear arsenals are the ONLY defense we have at present.
Wake up.
The right size meteor could be just what we need. Enough of a catastrophe to put meaning back in the idea of class. Specifically, the landless underclass will parish without a place to grow turnips.
#LOL!
:^)
From NASA: “The asteroid is still 27 million miles away from Earth, and won’t get here for another hundred years at least.”
Not to worry. Most of us won’t be around for this one anyway.
Silly question. Every federal and state program in place today, as well as every one of their administrators are planning to be here then. More, 800 new laws took effect just in California on January 1, 2014. How many new laws in addition to the existing laws will take effect in all 57 States, and on federal level between now and then?
difference being, meteors have hut the planet many times in the past... and it’s only a numbers game until something significant hits us again
Not for lack of trying, mind you. ;-)
I feeeel lucky to have seen and survived Halley’s comet and Hale-Bopp too! Stickin’ around for this one is a long shot , at best .. HaPPy TRails!!
This particular one is 100 years out.
Boring truth doesn’t sell copies.
;]
One of these days, I’ll learn to read the whole thread before I blindly panic.
;D
Perfect.
Thanks for that, I have very good speakers and it gave me a start!
” Lucifer’s Hammer” by Niven and Pournelle. One of the first shtf novels I read. Good stuff!
‘The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival—a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....’
Impact by meteor of nickle iron content half mile wide? That’s a planet killer. Fuggetabboudit!
I use Preparation H for assteroid relief.
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