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Wiley 
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,17:43 |
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| Quote | | "Asteroid 2002 EM7 took us by surprise. It is yet another reminder of the general impact hazard we face," said Benny Peiser, a European scientist who monitors the threat of Earth-asteroid collisions... |
Shouldn't that dude loose his job? Considering all he has to do is look for stuff that's going to hit us and he obviously can't do that? If not, how would you get fired from that job? If one of the rocks does hit us then we are all dead ...if you don't see it coming and it just misses us then you can say "Whoops, I didn't see that rock because I was home sleeping and living off government research money" and everything is cool? Screw that!! If an air-traffic controller doesn't see one plane and it hits something should he be able to say "sorry 'bout that ...didn't see te 747 in the sun and all". Somebody must pay for our near death.
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,17:48 |
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heh you have a good point about government job fuckups (air port security, a-hem, or lack there of). that's why big government is bad. but anyway it wasn't really that guy's fault, there is no way to detect objects incoming directly from the sun. if they had more resources they could track more asteroids while they were going the other way.
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,17:50 |
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oh yeah besides there is nothing you can do to prevent the asteroid from hitting anyway, unless you knew it was going to hit many years in advance. another besides--it was only 70 meters across. it would do about as much damage as a nuke, it wouldn't destroy the planet or anything.
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Necromancer
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,18:02 |
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erm i really have to just give you a quick friendly bitch slap there wiley  the average comet at say 1.5 times the distance to the moon has about the same luminosity of a lump of coal. Asteroid/Comet hunting is one of the hardest things to do as by the time you see them if they're on a collision with earth you will have an average of about 2 hours before it hits as it needs to get that close for you to see it. With the limited funding these projects get things like this should be used to raise awareness not to point the finger. As far as i'm aware the closest near miss was one that just deflected off our atmosphere (but do take into account our atmosphere extends WAAAAY out into space) you could see it glowing from the friction in an amateur film footage.It was about 1 3rd distance between here and the moon i think though no exact figures on that one. When it comes to blindspots the whole of space is one big fricking blind spot.
just a little sketch i quickly did the red block is an average skyscraper. not a lot you can do really with things like them.
Aint it cool to think we could be snuffed out in a wink of an eye just like that almost makes me horny 
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kuru
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,18:11 |
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If an asteroid that size hit Siberia in 1908, and we are all still here, it's reasonable to state that an asteroid the 70 meters in diameter hits earth again, it will not obliterate human life.
If it were to be headed for a major population center, these guys should be able to figure this out ahead of time and evacuate that city and the surrounding area. Even a few days warning would be enough if it was taken seriously.
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,19:41 |
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the asteroid that hit siberia 100 years ago was about the same size as the one that just missed us. eros (i think thats what that big one is) is one of the bigger asteroids in the asteroid belt. if it hit the earth, therewoulbe mass extinction and billions dead.
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Spydir
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,20:03 |
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| Quote (CatKnight @ 19 Mar. 2002,07:41) | | therewoulbe mass extinction and billions dead. |
I think the "billions dead" makes a little bit of sense after "mass extinction". That's like "I'll kill you! Kill you dead!"
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TheTaxMan
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,22:56 |
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Well, mass extinction general applies to all living things, while we would never say "billions dead" and refer to chipmunks, so...
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chmod
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Posted on: Mar. 19 2002,23:44 |
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