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Jupiter Struck by Object, NASA Images Confirm
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| 7/21/2009
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Posted on 07/21/2009 6:07:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Well I can state with absolute certainty some day we will be hit by a massive object. It is equally probable that it will be tomorrow, or 100,000 years from now or 1 million years from now. But it will happen.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:32:27 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
To: Huebolt
"It was the NORTH KOREAN'S new Mile Long Dong missile!"
You mean the one that flew into Uranus? :)
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:34:36 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:35:59 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: wolfcreek
Hey, maybe it was Earth that impacted Jupiter, ‘cause the fellow could see it on his peewee size telescope, so it had to be close, and Gore just hasn’t told us yet.
To: highnoon
"Drunk illegal alien???" And probably texting to boot.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:37:51 AM PDT
by
Jaxter
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
To: Sudetenland
Damn,,that meteor should have been taxed! Where are the dems on this?
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:39:01 AM PDT
by
cajungirl
(no)
To: Red in Blue PA
Karl: Sir, I'm retired navy, I know all about classified. But one more thing. The person that finds her gets to name her right?
Dan: Yes-yes that's right, that's right.
Karl: I wanna name her Dottie after my wife. She's a vicious life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape.
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:39:53 AM PDT
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
To: Kozak
"But it will happen."
The next Ice Age is more likely to hit first.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:40:19 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: wordsofearnest
Thats one big a$$ planet !Feh. It will do until a REAL planet comes along. I've seen bigger planets smoking cigarettes on the streetcorner.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:40:31 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
To: wordsofearnest; StAntKnee
"Remember amateurs built the Ark, professionals the Titanic." It was Mark Twain that defined an "expert" as, "some guy from out of town."
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:41:04 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Red in Blue PA
Oh please, nothing like that will ever happen HERE.
Next thing you’ll be telling me is that the USA elected a foreign national as POTUS.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:45:11 AM PDT
by
Canedawg
(FUBO)
To: wolfcreek
Considering the size of the impact, and the size of Jupiter overall, I’d expect that the people in the vicinity looked around and said “who cut the cheese?”
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:47:49 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
To: Kozak
About one trillion (please, don’t tell 0bama what comes after a trillion) radio meteors (those with enough energy to ionize the atmosphere) a day, with a total mass of about ten tons enter the Earth’s atmosphere daily. The mass of the individual members is roughly exponentially distributed, so very large objects are rare, but not impossible.
It’s happen before, of course. The crater is called the Pacific Ocean and the residual debris is called the Moon. No other planet in our solar system has a satellite with nearly as large a relative mass. The earth/moon system could almost be considered a double planet. I say almost, because the center of mass of the combination lies below the surface of the earth.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:52:55 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: Kozak
Actually, it reminds us that Jupiter is still doing its job of collecting asteroids & comets that might otherwise impact the Earth.
To: Red in Blue PA
So. Is THIS worth ANY part of “NASA’s” budget?
To: Lazamataz
****Feh. It will do until a REAL planet comes along. I’ve seen bigger planets smoking cigarettes on the streetcorner.****
Is that your way of telling us that you use Uranus for an ashtray?
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:39 AM PDT
by
ResponseAbility
(Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
To: Red in Blue PA
All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa...
To: MrB
God put Jupiter there for this very purpose.
I tend to believe that as well. We live in a comparatively safe part of the solar system. There's a lot of dangerous things flying around out there - we should be thankful for planets like Jupiter to take the hits for us.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:11:43 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Obamacare - it's to die for.)
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:19:34 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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