Trajectory Unclear: Feb 2013 Asteroid Will Be Within Thousands of Miles of Earth

[jbauer]

damn terrorists

 

[Natural Citizen]

damn terrorists

It's been said....and by elected representatives, no less.

 

[XNavyNuke]

Load 'o crap. Given the diameter and density of the rock it would be a fifth of the yield of the Tunguska event.

If it was solid iron (which the density data doesn't support), and if it entered the atmosphere at a perpendicular angle (which it won't), and if it had the maximum velocity for a solar object (which its not even close to), then it would impact and leave a mile and a half crater (assuming the 70% chance it doesn't hit a water body). Not an extinction event.

I suggest you head to your local campus and see if they will have a telescope set up to watch it.
http://today.ucf.edu/whizzing-asteroid-turns-rocket-scientists-heads/

XNN

 

[TruckinMike]

I'll stop pretending to know things now.

- A former IR major soon to be switching to physics

If you are a Richard Feynman fan you've got to hear "drumming with Feynman" (mp3) Its great! I couldn't find it via google or youtube. I have it on mp3. The guy is hilarious.

 

[Natural Citizen]

If you are a Richard Feynman fan you've got to hear "drumming with Feynman" (mp3) Its great! I couldn't find it via google or youtube. I have it on mp3. The guy is hilarious.

That's weird, I just posted a video with him playing those bongos in the climate thread yesterday. Richard was a blessing to have around. One of my favorites.

 

[idiom]

What if it was going to impact China, and they sent up missiles that deflects it, but it still hit Japan. That would be justifiable self defense right? Its Japan's job to have their own missiles to deflect it further...

 

[Natural Citizen]

What if it was going to impact China, and they sent up missiles that deflects it, but it still hit Japan. That would be justifiable self defense right? Its Japan's job to have their own missiles to deflect it further...

Well...don't you think Japan might just get to asking why the rock was so close in the first place...if that theoretical thing happened? I mean these are, after all, the people who are (or were right before the lil flood they had ) putting out vehicles that ran on water...even tea would do. They aren't dummies. Now, don't get me wrong, there are a few (actually, many) legitimate reasons why we (or China) would want to pull (lets say bump until the next chapter in the science book) an asteroid into Earths orbit but yeah...you know. The only folks who would buy that story you make are us clowns here in the states. Certainly, we'd call the rock a terrorist. It must be. After all, it's probably brown. And, of course, the science of the matter would become a matter of national security and then what do you know...can't even crack open a science book without the TSA's of the world frisking it first and then we're still left with the only remaining science of the universe discussion being trumped with that old Frank Luntz speak about "Climate Alarmists" or whatever and running around in the same circle. A big old race back to the beginning of the thing over and over again. Problem...reaction...solution.

I mean cripes. Third world countries are putting up more of a fight regarding things like what the machine puts into their food and the like than we are.

Twilight Zone music playing in the background....

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Cripes. Now you went and forced me. Good? Wow. Bad energy...

The man is dead. And you say good?

Let me guess. You are so wise and all knowing that you see no need to question further? There are no more questions to ask? No?

Denying Carl Sagan is the pinnacle of truth is not saying there are no questions. Carl Sagan doesn't just ask questions. He phrases them in such a way as to promote his own ideology... that there is no need to question whether there is a power beyond us, beyond the universe. He fancies up the naturalist language and makes it sound good so that people can connect to him spiritually in such a way that he becomes their god, just like he has become to you. He doesn't ask questions... he blatantly promotes atheism. As far as I'm concerned he's just another hypocrtical priest for the atheist religion trying to profess his love for science and logic. Bullshit.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Well then forgive him.