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How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth
jefu writes "In January there seems to have been an incident in which it was thought that an object (asteroid) in space might have hit the earth within a couple of days of being spotted. It did miss, though. This story (from NASA/Ames) talks about the discovery of the object and the process that astronomers went through to determine if the asteroid was or was not a threat."
If it hits the Slashdot compound, it's good.
I can't make much of the Dutch people, let alone their language. They're all perverted potheads, anyhow.
Mod me down as flaimbait or whatever, but I personally think we need a global cataclysm. We don't need something that kills off the entire human population, but we certainly need something to cleanse our planet.
We need something to take our collective heads out of our asses and come together as one people and work together for the common good.
The world as it is... is in a sad state. I don't think I even need to explain why... just watch the censored news.
HEY! Learn how to spell! It's "missiles". It's really not that hard.
Instead of asking question that assume the poster is stupid, why not go learn something?
The original post is referring to a particular design of time machine that unlike most designs, has the distinction of possibly actually being able to exist and be build by humans (as opposed to the designs that Relativity implies that depend on natural features of the Universe which may or may not actually exist, and don't seem to). Rather then spell it out for you (probably incorrectly anyhow since I'm not a physicist by trade), why don't you go look it up? It does indeed mean that you can only travel back to the creation of the machine itself.
There are other time machine designs that don't have this limitation. For example, I hear H. G. Wells had one over a hundred years ago. They do suffer from the flaw of being totally fictional, though.