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 ...
Of course. With a Hiroshima sized bomb, the outskirts of the affected area are much closer to ground zero than they would be with the big H-bombs with which we and the Soviets were menacing each other in the 50’s and 60’s. But even for those, there was a large ring around ground zero, outside the fireball and region where the blast would have completely leveled everything, in which duck and cover would have made a difference.
>>This particular one is 100 years out.
The more telescopes we put on the job, the more we find. Trouble is we need to find them ALL. Chelyabinsk was not spotted. Most of the telescopes on the job are in the northern hemisphere. These objects are not easy to find. One was found a few weeks ago by an amateur astronomer. The big guns missed it.
LOL
Really? REALLY???
THIS is the ‘crisis’ they opened with?
Oh thank God, that had nothing to do with Mongolian throats.
>>find they can garner more lucrative grants with glowbull warming.
>>If that dries up, then this might fit the bill...
Money well spent if you ask me, and the residents of Chelyabinsk. Do some research on this, check out those links in my first post. This is a no jive clive danger. Nobody is pulling the observations out of their butts, nobody is trying to use this as a vehicle for a socialist globalist takeover.
So, jumping under a school desk WILL save you!
Well, we ~could~......
Let’s not and swear we did.
In order to understand the danger, one only needs to look up at the surface of the moon. Erosion removes obvious impact crater features much more quickly on earth than on the moon. The moon is like a next door neighbor to the earth, what they get, we also get.
Hey, that’s the answer, just outlaw the asteroid and our problem is solved. Of course they will need to raise taxes first. /s
The problem is not knowing how to build the telescopes, but funding the telescopes. I have long felt that since the discoverer gets to name the object discovered, there is a huge lost marketing opportunity here.
If Superbowl 2019 were brought to you by the discoverers of comet "Budweiser 2019", they might sell some more beer, and the rest of us might know about some potentially dangerous things out there.
What’s amazing is that while pitching that table, that lady doesn’t once drop her purse. That’s real talent.
I think the best survival strategy is a good rubber raft!
Odds are if there is an incoming, it will hit in the oceans.
500 foot high tsunami?
Surf’s up!!!!!
You guys are all still here?
Wow, that was a close one.
Can i come down out of the tree now?
Lol!
I think we got our quota of close meteors when that sucker hit up in Russia. But who knows? Maybe they come in swarms.
It only takes one errant space rock to unwind your earthly clock...
I’ve been dodging them for years.
“Reconcile the headline with this fact:
The asteroid is still 27 million miles away from Earth, and won’t get here for another hundred years at least.”
Does not compute.....if it’s 26 million miles away...and if it is moving at 10,000 mph ( most asteroids move much faster than that) it will be here in 108 days.
Revelation 6:12-17
12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
And after that (among other things) Ch 8:7&8
7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on 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.
8 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, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 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— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
***********gonna happen************
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