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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."
Dudes, GNAA is teh suxx0r! Ghey boyz!
An asteroid hitting Earth or web design like this?
of user base for Direct orders, or
Ashholes! You saw it!
you know, it is largely up to faith that if we even can alter anything.
which makes it sort of parallel with making sacrifices to the ancient gods just in case if that was necessary for the survival of the entire human race(hell, they might exist you know, and allah too). heck, some people have more faith in that equivalent of that should be done rather than planning up things to save us from perils of the space.
yeah well, doing some tech to deflect some asteroids would probably advance the tech enough to be worth it. but so was building several of the monuments of the ancients.
that powermonger game btw is the collaborative decision making process of your nation, like it or not(and not everyone would deem it necessary to take drastic slashes on budget to guard against something that seems unlikely).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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It doesn't really matter if the symbols and magic numbers themselves mean anything. Not when the cold, hard fact of the matter is that there are hidden people with gobs of wealth, power and access to knowledge which rest of us only gets through a filter, if at all. When people like that are running the show, then hell yes, I'm going to stop and look up when I hear the number 666 added to an asteroid name or such.
Chicken or the Egg; after a while it doesn't matter. When it comes to broad metaphoric symbols, they still always tend to add up to the same thing. Self-fulfilling prophecy may be silly, but it remains a big deal when the people fulfilling it can affect everybody's life through their antics.
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Just in case this isn't actually a troll.
You don't need anything to push against, 'Every action produces an equal and opposite reaction'. Some of those old alchemists were very clever.