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Stealth Asteroid Misses Earth
Paradoxish writes: "Gah. According to cnn.com an asteroid hiding in an astronomical blindspot nearly blindsided Earth. The scary part is that scientists didn't notice it until four days AFTER it passed by. Apparently, it would've been similiar to the Tunguska explosion. Scary." As long as they keep missing Earth, we're OK.
Now I'll really get to live to see the HURD released...
[ducks]
The asteroid was installed with a propulsion system and aimed at New Jersey. Unfortunately, due to a conversion factor from metric units, the asteroid missed Earth completely.
Nosce te Ipsum
If we could just get the calculations more refined, then the asteroids will never hit us.
If you do the precise calculation, you find that it couldn't have hit, because it missed!
;-)
Strange that
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"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Just remember, every Asteroid is a potential "Britney killer", and should be viewed as such.
I can't live without my Britney Spears.
That is where I keep all my stuff....
If it pierced the atmosphere, the approximately 70-meter-long rock could have disintegrated and unleashed the energy equivalent
of a 4-megaton nuclear bomb, researchers said.
"If it were over a populated area, like Atlanta, it would have basically flattened it," said Gareth Williams, associate director of the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Thanks for telling me how dead I'd be if it hit here. Couldn't you have talked about it hitting somewhere where I don't live? Like Kabul, or something? Maybe Baghdad?
You, my friend, are management material! You will be promoted shortly. Well done.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
What would happen if an asteroid of a given size hit the moon?
If it had the same mass as the moon and collided on a tangent to the moon's orbit, it would replace the moon in our sky. Our "old" moon would go flying off into space.
That would be cool. Kind of like one of those executive toys. Of course, I'm assuming an unlikely inelastic reaction...
Get the editors off the Crack and into detox... You're frickn scar'n me.
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Which technology is that, please?
Britney's pontoons.
I forget...are we at war with Eurasia or East Asia?
2002 EM7 might make a good test for NEA destruction systems.
I had no idea the National Endowment for the Arts had such systems.
It's good to know that when scientists fail to protect our planet, we can always rely on the artists!
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
His point, which you seem to have missed, is that there is clearly someone out there pelting us with rocks and garbage.
Soil your undies, perhaps?
I'm appalled! Imagine someone posting something that isn't completely original on slashdot!!
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if an asteroid is going to hit what are we going to do exactly?
Evacuate Atlanta?
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Damn, can you imagine what a cow looks like after it's been hit by a meteorite? SPLAT!
I'd probably pay to see that.
Not that I have anything against cows, mind you.
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> What's the point if an asteroid is going to hit what are we going to do exactly?
Have you ever stopped consider how many times even a
(I have to conclude that astronomer-geeks don't have any trouble getting laid, or else they would be letting out false alarms now and then.)
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"My advisors have just informed me that the sun has been hurling dangerous, radiation death rays at the United States and its friends for millenia. And they have a 'solar flare' weapon they use to disrupt our electronics."
"Mark my words. We will smoke them out of their holes and wipe them off the face of the planet," Bush stated, before a reporter pointed out that the sun is not on Earth. "It don't make no difference -- don't interrupt me with the politics of details, son. We're still going to hunt them down and put a stop to them."
The president refused to answer questions about whether he plans to detain the sun in Cuba.
Why Atlanta, huh? You Bostonians have a problem with us or somethun?!?! Shee-it, I gots neighbors with pickup trucks bigger than that damned rock anyday. Bring it on, we'll haul it off for ya!
2004-08-01 15:00:12 Comet misses earth (science,news) (rejected)
2005-01-12 01:51:02 Another stealth asteroid misses earth (science,news) (rejected)
2007-12-23 23:33:58 Asteroid hits earth, wipes out civilization (science,news) (rejected)
I still have no idea why the last story was rejected.
Everyone knows that the Philidelphia expieriment was based on tesla's theories of time portals and Giant magnetec lenses... That was nothing more than a test that the lense imploded causing a massive radiation explosion... We studied that in history along with the military tests in 2012 with magnetic propulsion of submarines that created the first 700mph underwater vehicle that makes interdimensional travel possible today.
Oh wait, my professor told me to not say things like that when using this internet time portal... Shit... oh well being on slashdot noone will believe it anyways....
CiaO!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I dunno... I once saw an 8 come down off the board and start beating the crap out of a dart player who missed his shot entirely. The dude was slightly drunk, too, so the 8 was really trashing him before the rest of us got them apart. Of course, the 17 is pretty irritable too -- I wouldn't be surprised if one of them ever gave somebody a smack in the head.
I have a strong belief in the Second Amendment.
Well, if we can't see it because of the sun's light, why don't we just look for it at NIGHT? Duuuuuh...
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