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« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2007, 12:05:01 AM »
I'll be 70 and depending on my health, may welcome its arrival
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« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2007, 01:41:38 AM »
hehe look up Planet X.........
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« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2007, 07:57:02 AM »
Move over dinosaurs.
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« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2007, 08:35:26 AM »
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Apophis should be perked.



Awwwww don`t worry. ENY will make it useless most of the time. :rofl
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« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2007, 12:12:31 PM »
The comet is mostly ice right? Put our politicians on the surface. In a mere few days it will alll have evaporated. Put michael moore and al gore on it and it will take hours.
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« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2007, 01:00:07 PM »
NO... there is a chance it will hit.

If it does it will be the end of life as we know it.

We can't take the chance that it won't hit.   we need to get every "scientist" to get off the man made global warming bandwagon and onto the asteroid doom band wagon.

This is far too important to take a chance on.   we need to DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!!

We need to have the UN form a committee and get every nation on the planet to sign on.   We may have to suffer some loss of income and freedom but....

Do we have any choice?    

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« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2007, 01:01:31 PM »
Cool!
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« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2007, 01:51:53 PM »
Fellas, this has been discussed...and the solution is already at hand...


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« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2007, 02:39:43 PM »
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Fellas, this has been discussed...and the solution is already at hand...

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« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2007, 06:35:19 PM »
It's 320 metres across.
That means it can be NOOKED TO DUST :D
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« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2007, 06:38:08 PM »
Its the ones we don't detect that we should worry about. ;):noid
This asteroid will also offer an opportunity for the "Me" generation who will be in their 50's and 60's  to run up credit card debt to amounts unpayable sans interest.....oh wait, they're already there! ;)
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« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2007, 07:06:04 PM »
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it either hits us or it doesnt and there aint nothing we can do about it. so its not worth worrying about.


Plenty that we can do about potential asteroids that threaten to his the Earth, provided we know about it (which requires better inventory of objects in our solar system), and know about it with enough advanced notice.  The further in advance a known threat is dealt with, the less effort is required to deal with it.  Solar sails can tug an asteroid out of our way, with enough advanced notice.  Even painting the surface of an asteroid can move it using solar pressures, if done a long time in advance.  Ion tugs are a more brute force effort, and rockets or mass drivers even more so.

Besides Apophis - 250-metre-wide - (has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth on 13 April 2036), there are a few others that have a good chance of hitting the Earth, or passing close enough to effect their orbit to hit Earth in a follow up orbit.

There are over 108 asteroids, known so far, considered to be "potentially hazardous objects" to planet Earth.

1950 DA - over 1 km across - has a maximum 1-in-300 chance of striking the Earth in the year 2880, and is the most likely threat at this time.

1997 XF11 - about a mile wide (320,000 megatons of dynamite force) - is expected to pass at 30,000 miles in 2028.

asteroid 2000 SG 344 close approach in 2030, and how Earth effect's it's follow up orbits is a concern.

There are others being watched for 2013, 2014, 2016, 2030, 2070, and so forth.  Over 108 known threats so far, and this does not take into account asteroids or comets, especially very long period orbiting bodies, we do not know about yet.

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« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2007, 07:31:19 PM »
Just send Ben Affleck, He'll take care of it.
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« Reply #28 on: June 16, 2007, 08:13:39 PM »
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1950 DA - over 1 km across - has a maximum 1-in-300 chance of striking the Earth in the year 2880, and is the most likely threat at this time.


by that time Star Trek technology might become reality and so the military can just blow it up with lasers

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« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2007, 08:23:44 PM »
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by that time Star Trek technology might become reality and so the military can just blow it up with lasers
We won't have to wait until 2880....we're about 15 years away from that type of high powered laser. ;)
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