Take 5 min. brake and check braking news - TU24 asteroid
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Johnnybags
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Let me now if Washington DC
is ground zero for it, I hope so.
is ground zero for it, I hope so.
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what does this have to do with anything about Ron Paul grassroots....
Wow, what a terrible comment.
MattMinnesota
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It is NOT 50% chance of hitting, in fact there is almost a 0% chance. The link you supplied doesn't even reflect your statement. It talks about something entirely different.
Exactly, everyone said it has nothing to do with RP grassroots, which it doesn't. What are you not comprehending?
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If I wanted to indulge in Chicken Littlesque fantasy about Dogs and Cats Living Together, I would be much more worried about the Yellowstone Supercaldera going boom than this little BB shot, which has NO chance of hitting Earth.
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But this asteroid could cause and make earthquakes and fires.
hmm
hmm
Of course it is.
That's handy, isn't it? I mean, you just claim it's "desinformation" when it's been like this for MONTHS now, when it never raised itself above "1" on the Torino scale, ever, and when you've got "inside information" from your buddy's sister's uncle's best friend's pal who works with someone who knows someone who dated someone who works at Nasa, right?
Of course.
Look, I've watched you damn doomsday cultists do this for the past 30 years, and scientists say "Nah, nothing" for thirty years. They've been right 30 years. You've been wrong 30 years.
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lol, one of my classes starts that day, if we get hit I guess I'll get out of having to go.
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Go here.... http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
check the second box down, and Click on the Blue (2007 TU24)....
Pretty cool applet on that link that lets you advance days, and it outlines the orbits...
It comes real close on the 29th. Funny thing is that there was one that came closer on Jan 13 (2008 AF3) in the first box.... yet we're still here
check the second box down, and Click on the Blue (2007 TU24)....
Pretty cool applet on that link that lets you advance days, and it outlines the orbits...
It comes real close on the 29th. Funny thing is that there was one that came closer on Jan 13 (2008 AF3) in the first box.... yet we're still here
*grins and nods* Precisely. AF3 was far closer, but the nutbags seem all hardon over TU24 .
They do this every time a new NEO comes out that has a close approach . Most these people don't understand that these "close approaches" are still pretty far out. Heck, most don't understand that the MOON is pretty far out.
Little science experiment to show you how far out the moon is. Take a globe.. (or a baseball). That is the earth.
Now, wrap a piece of string around the equator nine and a half times. Stretch it out. It helps if you have another person. That's how far away from earth the moon is.
Now.. take that same piece of string.. and wrap it around the earth 13 times. That's how close this Asteroid that is 3 cubic meters to 30000 cubic meters is going to come to us.
They do this every time a new NEO comes out that has a close approach . Most these people don't understand that these "close approaches" are still pretty far out. Heck, most don't understand that the MOON is pretty far out.
Little science experiment to show you how far out the moon is. Take a globe.. (or a baseball). That is the earth.
Now, wrap a piece of string around the equator nine and a half times. Stretch it out. It helps if you have another person. That's how far away from earth the moon is.
Now.. take that same piece of string.. and wrap it around the earth 13 times. That's how close this Asteroid that is 3 cubic meters to 30000 cubic meters is going to come to us.
It might be for the best.
Actually, it's still a minor risk. They took it off the risk list before they'd ever completed calculations. From what I've just read from other sources, they think it may be within the moon's orbit of earth. The major threat is not an impact, but a massive plasma discharge that would alter the earth's magnetosphere and essentially result in a whole lot of "uh oh..."
"Uh oh" being an increased likelihood of natural disasters, especially earthquakes of great magnitude as well as unusual weather before the meteor reaches the earth. The magnetosphere reaches about 65,000 km from earth.
So it is a threat, just not a threat of direct-impact.
"Uh oh" being an increased likelihood of natural disasters, especially earthquakes of great magnitude as well as unusual weather before the meteor reaches the earth. The magnetosphere reaches about 65,000 km from earth.
So it is a threat, just not a threat of direct-impact.
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