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Asteroid Fly-By on August 18
ke4roh writes "An asteroid will fly near the planet and be visible with binoculars from the northern hemisphere August 18, so says this article. Astronomers say it will cross the sky at 8 degrees per hour and fade out of view as it approaches the sun and hence goes through its various phases - full, gibbous, half... down to nothing. Such a show only comes about twice a century, so take a look before it disappears!"
Another reader sends in a few useful links: "Here's the complete
article
from the folks at
NASA Space Science with extra links including details on the astreroid's
trajectory."
Cowboy Neal is a nigger
woohooo! wheee!
.. I am sure NASA has an oil drilling team on stand by as we read this.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Heh, it's funny because he is teh negroid. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean nigger. Dirty fucking nigger. Dirty fucking nigger who gives blowjobs to dogs for nickels so he can buy more male whores.
Shout izzoout to my baby Sheniqua.
He has sex with CmdrTaco
8 degrees / hour? is that even fast enough to notice movement with the naked eye?
pair of decent binoculars: $60
tank of gas to drive to dark location: $20
Lawn blankets: $15
The expression on your face as you realise some NASA mathmatican forgot to carry a one......priceless
Chicago2600.net more than a lifestyle, its a survival trait.
Who have had gay anal and armpital sex with him and thus given him AIDS.
Do asteroids cause mass suicide, like certain commets of the past?
The Leonid meteor shower was a great way for me to introduce my 6 and 3 yr old to astronomy. It was a night I will remember forever, as they will too hopefully. They still talk about the "stars falling from the sky".
My kids are actually really excited about this event. There is nothing betting then getting kids into science then direct experience.
it's coming from the vicinity of an ugly planet...a bug planet
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)...Now i know why.
``Whoa, dude, that's rock's shaped really weird...''
``Yeah... looks like a dog bone or somethin'...''
*toke* *toke*
``Heh heh... check out Uranus...''
No, probably not.
- SMJ - (It's not just a name: it's a bad aftertaste.)
Cowboy neal breaks bukkake world record! More at 11.
One time Cowboy Neal humped a knothole in a piece of lumber. He felt that the splinters were "Love bites".
Stellarium is an impressive piece of free software for Linux and Windoze that renders the sky at any given time given your coordinates.
I bet it will make it much easier for the untrained people to find the asteroid in the sky (considering its trayectory.
"As it nears Earth, however, the space rock will brighten, soaring to 9th magnitude on August 18th. That's about 16 times dimmer than the dimmest star you can see without a telescope." Wow. Now I just have to blow $300 on a telescope powerful enough to let me see a dim light. What a story, thanks Slashdot!
Hope it doesn't happen before 6 p.m. If it does, I'm going to have to orchestrate a "distraction." >:)
One time Cowboy NEAL was thristy. He decided to visit his good friend Cmdr Taco. "Rob," Neal said, "I'm thirsty." Cmdr Taco then said "Ah, I have a solotion for that, but not for why slashdot sucks and is for niggers, which I hate, and am married to." Neal nodded his head, indeed, Malda had married a Nigger, but he was giving his cock to Neal so much, that they both know who his "True wife" was. Rob then said, "Drink up!" as he lifted up his shirt and began lactating.
... into Cmdr Taco's mouth.
Cowboy Neal drank so much he peed for twenty minutes straight...
Do ya think any geeks will get laid that night, claiming that the asteroid will hit earth and it's "The Last Chance EVER!"?
The problem with Neal is that he deficates on Rob Malda's chest and the excrement is smarter than the both of them put together.
We can be quite sure that is *not* made out of:
- Gouda cheese
- recycled AOL CD's
- Rubber
- Cookie dough
....
Maybe that'll help them to narrow the options down1. Wait for another asteroid story on /. (approx 5 minutes).
2. Post bruce willis / liv tyler joke (approx 21 seconds).
3. Sit back and watch the karma roll in (unknown).
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
*hide*
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
from the don't-drink-the-koolaid dept.
I'm interested to know how you connected an asteroid fly past with the Jonestown Massacre, if indeed that is what your reference to "koolaid" is about.
Confidential to C. Taco:
Your shit should NOT be white. You are obviously taking in far too much man chowder. You should also not be having 20+ bowel movements a day. This is simply not healthy.
Someone should make a Celestia module for this like they did posthumously for the crater maker that sneaked by a few months ago.
... obviously didn't see 'Starship Troopers'.
NASA's plan:
1. Report doomsday asteroid heading for earth
2. ???
3. Profit!
Hard work usually pays off over time, but procrastination pays off now.
Cowboy Neal decided to be the cow to Taco's boy.
Taco then castrated him and used the castrated penis on his wife who won't touch him.
One time Cowboy Neal was horny, but Cmdr Taco was at work (Neal has never worked a day in his life) so he wasn't available for some butt fun. Neal needed to get off, so he got a hammer and smashed his groin.
"BEST SEX EVER!" Neal said afterwards.
"Don't worry." Said Cowboy Neal softly, as he held his lover's hand, stroking it to comfort the poor, poor boy.
"I-I'm still scared..." said Commander Taco, looking around the hospital room, having never been in one before.
Cowboy Neal managed to frown a little bit, and smile a little bit, unable to stay angry at his lover. "That football has to come out sometime, sweetie." replied Cowboy Neal. "Do you think they believed my story? That I didn't turn around in time to catch you pass?" Commander Taco asked, a little fear in his eyes. "Yeah..." Cowboy Neal said, sure of it. "Yeah, I think they did." He kissed his lover, worried about the outcome of the surgery.
Then, as to comfort Commander Taco by showing him everyone gets injured now and then, he took out a bowie knife, and stabbed his liver, dying on the spot.
I will be in the Sierras that weekend....Yes!
"In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city..."
In the city of york there will be a great
collapse, two twin brothers torn apart by chaos
while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
This story is getting totally claimed by trolls
This isn't even a real quote it is just something some idiot journalist made up a few years ago.
Moding down has totally been deactived and now the trolls are free and clear tom navigate around slashdot trolling up a storm.
"N-Neal?" "Yeah, Taco?" "W-What happens when we die?" a scared Cmdr Taco asked Cowboy Neal. Neal looked at the scared Malda and thought a second, "Well, honey, remember that pet hampster you had?" "Y-yes" "Remember what happened to him?" "Y-yes" "well, after we were done with him, he went to heaven so that the saints could do what we did with him." "B-but I thought god hated fags" "Noooo.. God only hates Nigger fags like me, but you'll put in a good word, and God will like you because you're almost as arogant as Matt Burdine of mattburdine.com" "Thank you, lover" Cdmr Taco said as he kissed Neal's cheek. "It's just hard to lose somebody close to me" "Well, if it's any consolation, the goose was dead minutes after you penetrated it, so I didn't suffer, it may have been climaxing when it died" "Wow, death isn't that bad, huh?" "Not at all", Neal said.
Neal said "Not at all" again and took a knife and stabbed himself in the liver, like Taco had done to the goose with his penis.
trying out some rapid fire trolling as an experiment. My theory is that the janitors and a handful (5) mods are out there modding stuff down regularly and the rest are just moding things up like they are suppose to.
slashdot effect n.
1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened when taco's anus is virtually unreachable because too many shirt-lifters are hitting it after he posts a boring pro-lunix article on the popular Slashdot news service. The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "Oh my god, my asshole has been slashdotted again!"
2. In a perhaps inevitable generation, the term is being used to describe any similar effect from being butt-fucked by a large admiring crowd. This would better be described as a flash crowd.
FREE NELSON MANDELA
get my quota of trolling in for the night. Well I guess maybe that should be morning but it kind of depends where your are. I mean its always midnight somewhere
every year theres one passing by, and getting closer and closer each time. I guess the next ice age will be upon us soon. Don't expect NASA to help with their political mumbo jumbo to get anything done.
We need poopbot to test your theory.
One time Neil stuck his penis inside of Taco's mouth as he slept. Taco sucked on it and then yelled out "+1, Delicious".
Little did he know where Neal had stuck it before.
(Hint: His own anus)
It will be visible on August 18th (8/18), move 8 degrees an hour, and have a brightness peak of 8th magnitude?
The astrologists and numerologists are gonna have a field day with this one. Time to get into the fortune business, being that programming is in the dumps.
If the damned thing is also shaped like an "8", then we are never gonna hear the end of it.
Table-ized A.I.
We spot one before 3 days after it's come and gone.
Cowboy Neil is blacker than my coffee, becuase I put 52 creams and 106 sugars in it. Then some Man Gravy.
-CmdrTaco
The days had become mundane. The nights, ho-hum. Cowboy Neal and Commander Taco obviously needed to spice things up.
As always, they knew how to go about doing that. They went fishing through the medical waste bin. Swimming through dirty needles and getting the AID, Commander Taco hit the jackpot first.
"What this stuff?" he asked, holding up a drum of saline solution.
"I think it's jizz," said Cowboy Neal. "Let's take it!" he exclaimed happily. Both were so excited, they didn't bother going through the rest of the dumpster before heading to their home, the boiler room of the San Francisco YMCA.
Once they got home, they cracked open the drum, Commander Taco taking the first large gulp. He quickly vomited in surprise and shock.
"THAT'S NOT MAN JUICE!!" He yelled angrily at the drum, pissed that he didn't have any, and his dreams were now shattered. He tried to drag the drum to throw it into the boiler, but his girly arms gave out quickly.
Cowboy Neal lept into action, trying to read the lable on the drum to decipher what this amazing stuff was.
An hour later, they had their answer. "Sa....line...." Cowboy Neal said. "I think I've heard of this stuff! You inject it into you to make things bigger!"
They both went to work, pulling hypodermic needles out of Commander Taco's liver to use. They split up the drum, and both went off to seperate rooms. When they came out, they showed off their bodies.
"I'm a mommy!" Yelled Commander Taco, rubbing his enlarged belly. "And now I'm gonna go play with saline!" he said, runnign back into the room.
Later, they both came out. Commander Taco had enlarged his forehead, so it would be like having a helmet for their next punching fetish game. Cowboy Neal gave him a thumbs up, and then gestured to the marble-sized lump in his pants.
Commander Taco's jaw dropped. "It's enormous!" He yelled. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Cowboy Neal nodded, and they both worked together to inject Cowboy Neal's liver with saline until it exploded.
Anyone here remember comet Hykataki (sorry bad spelling)? Now that was an impressive show! Not only could you see it perfectly with the naked eye, but through field goggles or a small telescope it was truly a grand vision! The only drawback to having seen that is that everything else is kind of a let down... =:::(
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
It had been done. A lifetime of work had paid off. Cowboy Neal hugged Commander Taco lovingly as he congatulated him for his special device.
Commander Taco had invented a toothbrush so flexible and long that you sit on it, and it brushes the back of your teeth so you can taste your own shit.
Cowboy Neal and Commander Taco had saved up for their trip to Japan. That way, they could partake of tentacles.
If they WERE just made up, like some people had claimed, no loss; they would just jam live squids up their asses.
As if it had to be said, that wasn't the brightest thing you've ever done. Your nuts are SWOLLEN UP to the size of ANGRY APPLES and you're certain to have to STAY HOME FROM WORK tomorrow. You crazy FAGGOT.
You sure BASHED THOSE NUTS good.
You lose.
Well, that was PREDICTABLE. After SHOVING THAT WACKY SCREWDRIVER up your ASTONISHED ASS and WIGGLING IT AROUND FOR A FEW MINUTES, you pass out and wake to discover yourself in a HOSPITAL with a SHINY NEW COLOSTOMY BAG.
Why don't you fucking REGISTER ANUSLESS.COM FOR YOURSELF?
You lose.
That's on my birthday! Thanks for the present.
You're a FUCKING HANDYMAN aren't you, you little PRICK. You sure SHOWED THOSE NUTS. You TAUGHT THEM A FUCKING LESSON. Now you're HOLDING THEM IN YOUR HAND. Congratulations, FUCKCHUNK.
Now there are TWO LESS NUTS in this world.
You lose.
That's right, GENIUS. You shoved five C-size DURACELLS up your DUMB WHITE ASS (ONE at a TIME), and guess what? You're now lying on the FLOOR in a PUDDLE OF your own DUMBSHIT.
You have electrocuted yourself like a FUCKNUT.
You lose.
All your friends wonder why you're WALKING FUNNY, and you're not TELLING. Hurray for YOU and your NEW BEER CAN INSTALLMENT. LORD KNOWS what you're going to do when you need to TAKE A SHIT.
A beer can doesn't go THERE.
You lose.
Well, as if that one NEEDED TO BE CALLED. You JERKED YOURSELF SO DIZZY you fell off your FAT BALCONY and into the BUSHES near where a GAGGLE OF KIDS were playing. Now you're in LOCKDOWN, under SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CHARGES.
Well, that was hardly WORTH IT.
You lose.
Well, it was a VALIANT ATTEMPT, FUCKNUTS. You JERKED AND JERKED on that POOR STUPID CAT, but when the little FURRY BASTARD WOKE UP he CLAWED THE FAGGY NUTS RIGHT OFF YOUR BODY.
No more JERKING DAYS FOR YOU.
You lose.
I'm sick of this crap about American cars being any good. They're OK
for stupid Americans who don't know how to drive, but our superior,
unpolluted Aryan engineering wins out every time. Only a dumb country would
let niggers build their cars. If a job is so menial that one of those can do
it right, a robot will do better, and he won't leave early to smoke crack.
Why is it that dumbfuck Americans look for their status symbols in
OUR cars? None of yours are good enough, that's why! American cars are death
traps. Although it's good for our economy, I wish more of you would drive
them and die. Which is rather likely considering how well you all drive over
there. Typical American thinking applies to your country and yourselves.
You're the only fucking one on the planet.
What is the American idea of a sports car? A V8, a transmission,
seats, and wheels? For a suspension, how about some great big rubber bands.
Try some superior German engineering and you'll see that your country is
shit. Always has been and always will be.
The V8 is the perfect analogy for the American approach to the
military. Can't do it BETTER so do it BIGGER.
That Finn was right about Americans and their automatic
transmissions. Can't well drive a stick if you're drinking coffee and
talking on the phone, can you? The American idea of driving is the gas pedal
and sometimes the steering wheel. Oh and there's these brakes, too, but you
don't need them unless you happen to look up and see something in front of
you that is too big to hit.
What a dumb country. Not one in ten of you can understand the
concept of metric unless it's expressed in terms of your sad little system.
While your children starve, can't even speak ONE language properly, and have
no clue where their own country is on a map, you're spending all your money
on guns, $5000 screwdrivers, and whores for congress.
Thank you for letting me take this time from your daily watching of
the OJ Simpson trial. (Shows what a smart country you are, give a nigger a
knife and get all surprised when he kills someone).
Deutschland ueber alles.
I think this would be considered a YP...Your Problem.
heh
Has anyone else entertained the possibility that they are pretty sure it will hit on the 18th, and issued the press release saying it would be visible with binoc's so that the amateur astronomers who think it's on a collision course won't get any press, so as to prevent public panic?
Didn't think so.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
...they can just set up a server running (insert most hated OS of your choice here) and we'll just let the Slashdot effect do its thing. Bye-bye annoying, Earth-threatening rock!
just kidding, or am I, I wonder what wierd religion is going to commit mass suiscide over this stupid space rock...
nobody cares about your stupid kroutmobiles because they suck, i rather have a chevrolet silverado pickup truck with a 350 V8 anyday...
[remember 'the left wing is NOT on fire] Relax, there's no danger of a collision. Repeat is you look at the system of Hercules you will see an asteroid that is NOT going to hit the earth.
Privacy is terrorism.
* Thursday August 01, @03:48AM
.. (Score:3, Funny) .. I am sure NASA has an oil drilling team on stand by as we read this. [ Reply to This | Parent ] slow! (Score:0)
:)
* MOD PARENT UP! Thursday August 01, @03:59AM
* Another compelling Love story Thursday August 01, @04:02AM
first post?? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01, @02:26AM (#3990531) woohooo! wheee! [ Reply to This | Parent ] And
by JPriest on Thursday August 01, @02:26AM (#3990532)
(User #547211 Info | http://pocomail.com/)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01, @02:31AM (#3990542) 8 degrees / hour? is that even fast enough to notice movement with the naked eye? [ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Re:slow! by alfredw (Score:2) Thursday August 01, @04:49AM
For everything else.... (Score:5, Funny)
by cdf12345 on Thursday August 01, @02:33AM (#3990546)
(User #412812 Info) pair of decent binoculars: $60
tank of gas to drive to dark location: $20
Lawn blankets: $15
The expression on your face as you realise some NASA mathmatican forgot to carry a one......priceless [ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Re:For everything else.... by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Thursday August 01, @02:48AM
* Re:For everything else.... by drsquare (Score:1) Thursday August 01, @04:52AM
Cult Activity.. (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01, @02:35AM (#3990551) Do asteroids cause mass suicide, like certain commets of the past? [ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Re:Cult Activity.. Thursday August 01, @05:16AM
Leonid (Score:1)
by rigelstar on Thursday August 01, @02:36AM (#3990552)
(User #243170 Info) The Leonid meteor shower was a great way for me to introduce my 6 and 3 yr old to astronomy. It was a night I will remember forever, as they will too hopefully. They still talk about the "stars falling from the sky".
My kids are actually really excited about this event. There is nothing betting then getting kids into science then direct experience. [ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Re:Leonid by rigelstar (Score:1) Thursday August 01, @02:40AM
o Re:Leonid Thursday August 01, @02:45AM
o Re:Leonid Thursday August 01, @02:45AM
o Re:Leonid by Cantus (Score:1) Thursday August 01, @03:23AM
o Re:Leonid Thursday August 01, @03:53AM
* Re:Leonid by lukew (Score:1) Thursday August 01, @02:43AM
oh no (Score:1, Funny)
by Troll on ice on Thursday August 01, @02:38AM (#3990561)
(User #569367 Info) it's coming from the vicinity of an ugly planet...a bug planet [ Reply to This | Parent ]
* whoever modded this down before.... Thursday August 01, @03:10AM
Astronomers at play (Score:3, Funny)
by tuxedo-steve on Thursday August 01, @02:41AM (#3990563)
(User #33545 Info) From the spacedaily.com article:
Such data result in impressive 3D maps of asteroids, which have often surprised astronomers with their weird shapes. Some prove to be binary systems (one space rock orbiting another) and one even looks like a dog bone. Why is it that I'm picturing a couple of ageing hippy astronomers, passing around a joint and checking out the skies?
``Whoa, dude, that's rock's shaped really weird...''
``Yeah... looks like a dog bone or somethin'...''
*toke* *toke*
``Heh heh... check out Uranus...''
No, probably not.
[ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Re:Astronomers at play Thursday August 01, @02:48AM
o Re:Astronomers at play by lukew (Score:1) Thursday August 01, @02:54AM
+ Re:Astronomers at play Thursday August 01, @03:00AM
photo realistic sky generator software (Score:4, Informative)
by kbroom on Thursday August 01, @02:48AM (#3990576)
(User #258296 Info | http://slashdot.org/) Stellarium [stellarium.free.fr] is an impressive piece of free software for Linux and Windoze that renders the sky at any given time given your coordinates.
I bet it will make it much easier for the untrained people to find the asteroid in the sky (considering its trayectory [nasa.gov].
[ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Re:photo realistic sky generator software by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Thursday August 01, @03:29AM
o Re:photo realistic sky generator software Thursday August 01, @05:40AM
Invisible rock orbits earth; Film at 11 (Score:1, Flamebait)
by Toasty16 on Thursday August 01, @02:50AM (#3990585)
(User #586358 Info) "As it nears Earth, however, the space rock will brighten, soaring to 9th magnitude on August 18th. That's about 16 times dimmer than the dimmest star you can see without a telescope." Wow. Now I just have to blow $300 on a telescope powerful enough to let me see a dim light. What a story, thanks Slashdot! [ Reply to This | Parent ]
* Umm... Thursday August 01, @05:00AM
Shucks, right when school lets back in. (Score:0)
Numerology only works in languages where letters can also represent numbers, like Hebrew and such -- not English, certainly, nor Chinese, etc.
When a language's letters are numbers, one of the sets must, obviously, be driven into the unconscious, leaving its other for denotation. All trinities, for example, have the characteristics of Mother-Father-Issue (except, of course, to the Catholic Church, where all three aspects are male....) This includes political theory (thesis, entithesis and dialectic,) economics, most fields of endevour.
If eight represents the first day of the second week. I will remind the gentle reader that in order to be reborn, one must die.
Strange how the articles "every 50 years or so," seems a lot mroe frequent then the "twice a century" the summary stated.
M@
Krispy Cream is people
from the article:
"Flybys like this happen every 50 years or so," says Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program office at JPL. The last time (that we know of) was August 31, 1925, when another 800-meter asteroid passed by just outside the Moon's orbit. In those days there were no dedicated asteroid hunters--the object, 2001 CU11, wasn't discovered until 77 years later. At the time of the flyby, no one even knew it was happening.
========
So uh, why have i heard of 2 just this year that came about a moons distance or less from smacking us? weird.
That confirms what I think of numerology: absolute rot.
It's not just the Catholic church: the entire Christian church has the Holy Trinity with all three parts being referred to as male.
So do you think the microbes that inhabit these wandering rocks have any clue as to thier fates?
Actually, asteroids pass even closer to the Earth every year; most of them are just smaller than 800 meters. In many cases, we don't detect the objects until after they've gone past.
Here's a list of objects which have come closer to the Earth than 2002 NY40 in the past decade or so. The final column shows the closest approach in terms of the Lunar Distance (between Earth and Moon). For 2002 NY40, that's about 1.3.
You can generate such lists yourself at The NEO Program's list of Near Earth Objects.
Michael Richmond "This is the heart that broke my finger."
mwrsps@rit.edu http://stupendous.rit.edu
Free speech for me, but not for thee.
...might effect the trajectory of the asteroid. It doesnt sound like they put any thought into that. I also have two unrealated questions. 1. How do I make URL links words of my /. stories
2. How can I get my Karma up? (that sounds bad but its not)
I once shot a man who posted too many, "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these"
I notice that the article doesn't say anything about whether the asteroid will show an apparent disc from Earth, but this is easy enough to calculate, I suppose--
.0000016 radians approx .000092 degrees approx .33 seconds of arc.
Diameter of asteroid: 800 m
Perigee distance: "1.3 x distance of Moon"
Distance of moon: 384,000,000 m approx.
Thus, perigee distance: 500,000,000 m approx.
Angle subtended by asteroid: 800 / 500,000,000
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=
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And this is only at perigee, of course.
By comparison, the disc of Neptune subtends about 3 seconds of arc (don't remember exactly), and just shows a disc in larger amateur telescopes. I don't think anyone with a pair of binoculars is going to be able to discern phases on this asteroid.
hyacinthus.
Pinging 2002-NY40.sol with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 198.116.142.34: bytes=32 time=122s TTL=127
Reply from 198.116.142.34: bytes=32 time=125s TTL=127
Reply from 198.116.142.34: bytes=32 time=127s TTL=127
Reply from 198.116.142.34: bytes=32 time=120s TTL=127
Ping statistics for 198.116.142.34:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 120s, Maximum = 127s, Average = 123s
You just want us all to run a trojanned Makefile that gives you a remote prompt, don't you. We're on to your games.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Numerology only works in languages where letters can also represent numbers, like Hebrew and such -- not English, certainly, nor Chinese, etc.
Unless of course numerology is a phenomenon of ordered sets of symbols. Or if that is too broad for comprehension, then at the very least please acknowledge that to the extent which the roman alphabet can be mapped to the hebraic alphabet, whatever numerological values exist in the latter must also be inherent in the former.
Please note that I am not offering an opinion on whether numerology provides anything of value.
He suggests that maybe, just maybe, humans and technology are Gaia's attempts at preventing another catestrophic impact.
His article is a good read at Reason Online.
Downsize DC Today!
If you were not taught something as rudimentary as the difference between "then" and "than" in school, I'm starting to think that the Republicans might be right when they talk about how today's public schools aren't getting the job done. :(
If we'd only just listen to Al Gore, we'd have an HDTV camera pointed at us out there beyond the moon, and we could sit in our livingrooms and watch all these space rocks whiz past in glorious living color.
But no, we gotta elect a guy who, well, who can say *what* is going through his mind other than the perpetual thought, "I gotta screw things up fast 'cuz 2004 is around the corner."
This article says the asteroid will "... glide past our planet only 1.3 times farther away than the Moon." I take that to mean it will be 2.3 times as far away as the Moon. Am I wrong?
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
looks like these gull darn newspaper and
public citizens are still believing that
there are other objects in space !!
Darn ! Darn ! Gull Darn it !
Star chart software in generally is pretty cool, but even someone who can only find the big dipper should be able to find this asteroid given the small map at the "trayjectory" link you provided. All you need to be able to find are Vega and Deneb. Vega will be the brightest star in the sky, and it will be pretty much staight up for most of the Northern Hemisphere at around midnight. Deneb will be the bright star just a short ways off to the north and east of Vega. There will be a 3rd bright star further south and a little farther off, called the eye of the eagle. These 3 bright stars make up the Summer Triangle that region of the night sky. You can't miss it, really. If you just look up and turn around in a circle, the 3 things that will stand out will be the big dipper, the summer triangle, and a bright orange star in the east called Arcturus.
If you are not in to astronomy a little bit though, seeing the asteroid may well be anticlimactic for you. It will just be a faint star that moves against the backround.
Don't moderate flamebait as Troll. Know the difference or you will be Meta-moderated.
Which planet?
What planet do you live on?
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
No, but rapid phasing will be discernable as a rapid drop in brightness, equivalent to apparent albedo drop -- much faster and less linear than increasing distance would account for. (Good point that we shouldn't expect to see the phasing, though. Nice to see back of the envelope reasonableness checks!)
Sigs? We don't need no stinkin Sigs.
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Looking at the future table, we might get out the binoculars to see these rocks on the given days:
But there aren't all that many rocks that we know about on the way here.Twice a century? Perhaps a little more often - and if we get more funding for watching for the Big One, we'll likely find out about substantially more rocks coming close, so if you miss this one, there's a fair chance you'll catch the next show.
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I thought this was the NASA site I was visiting, until I saw them call the asteroid a 'big space rock'. Or what?, I was rather suprised to find that the scientists at NASA called the Big Space Rock an 'asteroid'. I don't get it. I thought these were the sort of people who would try and sue you for calling it that. I now apologise for my light and probably very offensive use of the term 'sue'. I'm sure they wouldn't dream of suing anybody. Don't sue me.
Politics is derived from two words - poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning small blood-sucking insects.
Well, I'm not sure why you insist such a mapping is valid ... IF I understand your meaning correctly. As I wrote earlier in the post, it is the unconscious vector in languages like aramaic, I believe, Hebrew for sure, ancient Greek perhaps, but I doubt that Latin Numerals (e.g. LXII)could possibly have been interpreted as Latin words, nor Latin words be homonymous with Roman Numerals. Perhaps the numerals were uppercase to ensure such a separation was made. A similar case can be made for Chinese; where the numbers look like any other ideogram to Westerners, Chinese have no trouble seeing one and the other without driving one meaning into the unconcious. Indeed, from what I know of reading Chinese, numerals and ideograms are identical, but that's another story.
For clarity, it was (and still is, I trust) the custom among those calligraphers and scholars who are chosen to copy the Torah to add the numerical values of each line as a method of proofreading. So, if you can accept that whatever is not conscious is unconscious, (which seems obvious until one looks deeper) then numbers correlate with words. In Hebrew, this correlation was intended; all words that relate to sitting (chair, squat, sofa, settee, bench, bleacher) have the same, unique root, which has a unique number.
Since the unconscious, by that definition, is connected to everything and its language seems to be symbolic imagery, then the importance of the contents of our personal unconscious (a fragment of everything, but more than and other than the conscious,) the two denotations can refer to each other, and are useful as meditational tools, as a mandala is useful.
There is another kind of thinking that is also called `numerology' that is more universally true. I touched on that in my mention of `trinities.' This, clearly, is a different beast, and, just as clearly, is completely symbolic. Its development was the Taro(t).
The numbers' symbolic values and meaning are the same across the two traditions (taro and kabbala).
But I cannot support the use of transliterated numbers to Latinized languages (English, etc.)
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