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Asteroid Flies Under the Radar, Literally
mrn121 writes "Space.com is reporting that a 16-foot wide asteriod has passed the Earth in a phenomenally close call. The Asteroid, named 2004 YD5, passed just below the 22,300 mile range where geostationary satellites sit. What makes the incident most interesting is that the asteriod was not seen until after it passed the Earth, due to the well-known Cosmic Blind Spot caused by the Sun."
Sounds like we need to send an exploratory force out towards the sun to find out who the bastards are! Maybe they're on venus or mercury or somethin.
Oh wait. We don't _have_ an exploratory force. Oh well, guess we'll just have to be sitting ducks.
Or hope this was just a freak coincidence.
Sounds like a plot for a new movie...
My God, we're doomed! I mean, if an asteroid too small to hit the surface can go undetected, how will we blast it out of the sky with our Planetary Orbital Defense Network?
Church: "Give us your money and listen to us or you BURN IN HELL!"
DOE: "Give us your money etc or YOU'LL RUN OUT OF GAS!"
NASA: "Give us your money or YOU'LL GET KILLED BY AN ASTEROID!"
Engineering is the art of compromise.
See?
Stealth Asteroids....
I'm not worried though.
I have my teeny triangular space ship, and I'll destroy it before it becomes a problem....
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Not really, the asteroid could be totally illiterate and it would still burn up.
Is that why there are so many fires in the ghettos?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Asteroids may be closer than they appear.
"Well, I think the best use of the new James Web tele... oh HEY What The ... QUICK, GET ON THE WARNING ... Oh shoot ... that was close ... nevermind."
My slashdot fortune cookie:
"This is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. And now you know why."
I've never heard of it, until today!
I think the Slashdot effect is very similar...
submit a story, it gets rejected, and a server admin sleeps quietly through the night.
One day... Mr Beer-Powered Robot Man. Just keep that site running......
Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
Wrong. We have have an accurate delivery system in the form of Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner.
If we need a second chance, maybe they can get Lance Bass.
Someday a Slashdot ID of 177180 will mean something.
Homer: "So there's a commet. Big deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and whatever's left will be no bigger than a Chihuahua's head."
Bart: "Wow, dad. Maybe you're right."
Homer: "Of course I'm right. If I'm not may we all be horribly crushed from above somehow."
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Metroid: Species of jellyfish-like alien predators from SR-388.
And, don't forget: blowing pieces of this earth that belong to other people.
:-)
Doesn't that fall under the porn category?
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Dude, like, I know some people who drill for oil that are sooooo the right people to call in on something like this.
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-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I think watching the world go all Mad Max would be really interesting. I plan on welding spikes on a dune buggy for no reason.
-B
Just look surprised.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
West Wing jumped the shark long ago. With cardboard cutout characters like "George W. Bush" and "Donald Rumsfeld", I can't believe anybody ever took it seriously. The whole mess in "Iraq" (wherever that's supposed to be) has just been ridiculously long and drawn out, and is obviously just a lame recurring plot device to make up for the fact that their writers have no original ideas. They constantly introduce new major adversaries and then forget about them (anybody remember "Osama bin Laden" from the 2001 season, or "Saddam Hussein" from last year?) and in general it's just a gigantic farce. I'm surprised anybody pays any attention to it these days.
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