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2008-11-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-06 06:31|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Imagine if it had faleen just over the One(tm).

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-06 08:07|| 2008-11-06 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 We got Asteriod Obama, thats far worse.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-06 08:28|| 2008-11-06 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if the warning telescope discovered it only when it was too late to do anything about it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-06 09:14|| 2008-11-06 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 If they discovered it only hours before it "skimmed by", then, the NASA wouldn't have had time to send Bruce Willis out there in space, and we'd be screwed up, because you don't send just a man to do Bruce Willis' work.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-06 09:44|| 2008-11-06 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 So what you're saying Moose is that it's a 'Carlin 2 Minute'(tm) warning telescope?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-06 10:06|| 2008-11-06 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 So for $600Gazillion Spaceguard will notify us 22 hours after we have a collision with a deep space object.
Once again, I'm impressed. Truly impressed.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-06 10:11|| 2008-11-06 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 So many targets, so little time. *sigh*

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-06 10:13|| 2008-11-06 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 This has happened before. Three wise men followed a star to the promised one. Pretty prophetic, huh?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-06 10:28|| 2008-11-06 10:28|| Front Page Top

#9 What a waste. I could have used that for some serious urban renewal.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-06 10:39|| 2008-11-06 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 I got a rock.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-11-06 10:53|| 2008-11-06 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Spaceguard will notify us 22 hours after we have a collision with a deep space object.

Once upon a time, it took our computers 25 hours to predict the weather 24 hours in advance. But not to worry! Skynet will protect us.

Posted by SteveS 2008-11-06 11:28|| 2008-11-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#12 because you don't send just a man to do Bruce Willis' work

Nope. But they could have crammed Obama in a rocket and sent him to ~~get lost in space~~ to fix the problem.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-06 11:48|| 2008-11-06 11:48|| Front Page Top

#13 The One doan need no steenken rocket. Just a wave of the hand...

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-06 11:50|| 2008-11-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh, come now! He's already stopping the oceans' rise and healing the planet. You start loading up on him like that with a longer "To Do" list and there won't be enough hours in the day for him to get it all done . . . and so he'll have to slow the Earth's rotation on top of everything else, and then there's the whole conservation of angular momentum thing and then . . . give the man a break already!

Posted by Mike 2008-11-06 12:27|| 2008-11-06 12:27|| Front Page Top

#15 3 meters ain't shit.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-11-06 12:44|| 2008-11-06 12:44|| Front Page Top

#16 15 3 meters ain't shit.

Yes and No, it's the speed,multiplied times the mass that counts,

Example, I hand you a bullet, or I shoot the bullet to you.

Slight difference what?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-11-06 13:50|| 2008-11-06 13:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Mike: check out this link.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-06 15:16|| 2008-11-06 15:16|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm waiting for the north face of Hawaii to fall into the ocean and send the usual tidal wave to Australia.

I'm not holding my breath, just waiting.

Posted by Adriane 2008-11-06 17:51|| 2008-11-06 17:51|| Front Page Top

#19 Sorry, guys - missed a decimal place there. We'll try harder next time. That one SHOULD have hit Pakistan...

Posted by Haliburton Death-and-Devastation Division">Haliburton Death-and-Devastation Division 2008-11-06 18:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-06 18:48|| Front Page Top

#20 it's the speed,multiplied times the mass that counts,

At the risk of exposing myself as a pedantic nerd, kinetic energy is proportional to speed times speed times mass. RJ's point is correct, only more so.

Posted by SteveS 2008-11-06 18:51|| 2008-11-06 18:51|| Front Page Top

#21 maybe he was referencing momentum...

Posted by Abu do you love">Abu do you love 2008-11-06 19:48|| 2008-11-06 19:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Come on, kids....

Kinetic energy is 1/2 mass x velocity SQUARED.

If you are traveling at 100 ft per second with that rock in the trailer of your semi, you have about about 16.2 million foot pounds of energy. That is the equivalent of about 11 lb of TNT.

An asteroid will travel at about 30,000 feet per second, so the energy is about half a kiloton of TNT. That will get your attention.

So many targets, so little time.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-06 21:36|| 2008-11-06 21:36|| Front Page Top

#23 ION SPACE, RIAN > TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO PLANET EARTH [WWF Report].

* Over 3/4's of the human population live in Ecological Debtor States, where National Consumption is less than Natural Biological capacity.
* Human Demand is 1/3 greater than Earth can sustain.
* In approxi 30 Years [Year 2038 = 2050 rounded off?], World will expereince intensive shortages of the most essential or vital resources, as affected by imminent political and economic discord.

00's of people are reportedly telling UN special Commissions that life = natural existence, etc. on Earth is becoming very difficult, and that space colonies must be established ASAP for humanity to survive.

HMMMMM, "DUNE" VERSUS "TANK GIRL" VERSUS "WATERWORLD"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-06 23:17|| 2008-11-06 23:17|| Front Page Top

#24 OOPSIES, my bad - the first point should be National Consumption is greater than Natural Biological Capacity.

As for the ASTEROID, WESTPAC LOCAL-REGIONAL "LAND CHANGES" vee KAMALEN is lightstuffies compared to NE USA, + MOON EXPLOSIONS IFF APOPHIS HITS TERRA LUNA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-06 23:24|| 2008-11-06 23:24|| Front Page Top

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