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| White House: Asteroid 'Poses No Threat' to Earth |
| 2013-06-01 |
| [An Nahar] Have no fear: The White House says an asteroid more than 1 1/2 miles (2.7 kilometers) long poses no threat to planet Earth. And if it did, what'd we do about it? The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 was making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, keeping a safe distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. White House front man Josh Earnest was asked about the asteroid during a briefing. He says scientists have concluded the asteroid "poses no threat to planet Earth." He added, to laughter, "I never really thought I'd be standing up here saying that." The asteroid is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.74 million kilometers) long. The White House was hosting a "We The Geeks" Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... + Hangout Friday, bringing together NASA's deputy administrator and scientists to talk about asteroids. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Hmmm, "When you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, you got a problem, BUT if you owe several million, (OR EIGHTEEN TRILLION) THE BANK HAS A PROBLEM", maybe that's the problem, HE doesn't owe it, Peg the debt to his salary, and listen to his screams. IDON'TOWEITIMNOTPAYINGIT,ITS NOT MY FAULT. (Etc) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-06-01 18:13 |
| #8 The White House claims a debt more than 12 trillion dollars high poses no threat to planet Earth. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-06-01 17:07 |
| #7 Not this time, but wait for it. |
| Posted by: Jiggs Snavitch1005 2013-06-01 11:03 |
| #6 #3 The asteroid is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.74 million kilometers) long. Another NASA metric conversion? NASA Col. Barbie: "Math is hard" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-06-01 10:41 |
| #5 These clowns wouldn't be aware of a threat until they read it in the NYT.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-06-01 10:10 |
| #4 ObeOne called for the White Sox to beat the Cubs last Monday, too. Heh! |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2013-06-01 08:10 |
| #3 The asteroid is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.74 million kilometers) long. Another NASA metric conversion? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-06-01 01:38 |
| #2 Just be glad it wasn't The Won saying that: based on his football and basketball playoff picks, we would be flattened by that thing..... |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2013-06-01 00:54 |
| #1 As a good Madonna fan, I catch my Space Rocks + other over Guam-WESTPAC like I do my "Aurora" USDOD-DARPA spy planes. Personally I'm more interested in observing COMET ISON - its path around the Sun + back reminds me of Guam's KAMALEN. [NOSTRADAMUS' "CHIREN" = TWIN-SWORD = SWORD OF BOTH HEAVEN + HELL here]. Apollo + Cyntheia, Hades + Death. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-06-01 00:39 |