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An Asteroid Passed By Earth At About Half the Distance Between Our Planet and Moon (smithsonianmag.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the close-call dept.

On Monday at 7:47 A.M. EST, an asteroid thought to be between 36 and 111 feet wide passed roughly 120,000 miles from Earth -- and astronomers didn't spot it until Saturday. Smithsonian reports: According to astronomer Eric Edelman at the Slooh Observatory, 2017 AG13 is an Aten asteroid, or a space rock with an orbital distance from the sun similar to that of Earth. AG13 also has a particularly elliptical orbit, which means that as it circles the sun it also crosses through the orbits of both Venus and Earth. Lucky for us, 2017 AG13 wasn't a planet killer; according to Wall, the asteroid was in the size range of the space rock that exploded in Earth's atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February, 2013. According to Deborah Byrd at EarthSky, that meteor exploded 12 miles in the atmosphere, releasing 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. Not only did it break windows in six cities, it also sent 1,500 people to the hospital. That meteor also came out of the blue, and researchers are still trying to figure out its orbit and track down its origins. While 2017 AG13 would have caused minor damage if it hit Earth, the close call highlights the dangers of asteroids.

161 comments

  1. Giant meteor 20?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once again inanimate rock you have failed us you helped out the dinosaurs god really does hate us

    1. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2

      Once again inanimate rock you have failed us you helped out the dinosaurs god really does hate us

      By no means. This is just God's way of reminding us not to get caught doing what the dinosaurs got caught doing.

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    2. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Smoking?

    3. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by Nunya666 · · Score: 1

      Once again inanimate rock you have failed us you helped out the dinosaurs god really does hate us

      By no means. This is just God's way of reminding us not to get caught doing what the dinosaurs got caught doing.

      Yup, eating and procreating are evil things. You will burn in an imaginary hell forever!

    4. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by MitchDev · · Score: 2

      I voted for "Extinction Event Asteroid" in 2016....

    5. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wasn't the slogan "Giant Meteor, Just end it already"? I was actively trying to buy one of the signs for my lawn but I waited too long and they were either out or on the expensive side.

    6. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

      The orange one says "WRONG!!!!" with a little ok formed on both hands.

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    7. Re:Giant meteor 20?? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      I hear those things are pretty addictive...

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  2. Re:50 Shades of Orange by _KiTA_ · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love the emergency backtracking they're trying to do.

    "Oh man guys we got 'm, it's too perfect, it's hilarious, it's humiliating, it ruins his public image forever, it's marketable, it's hashtable, it's... it's fucking /pol/ again, isn't it?"

  3. Heckling the Solar system: by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

    "SPACEBAAAALL!"

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  4. meteor also came out of the blue by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2

    >> meteor also came out of the blue

    There is no blue...in SPAAACE!

    1. Re:meteor also came out of the blue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What colour is Neptune, idiot?

    2. Re:meteor also came out of the blue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What colour is Neptune, idiot?

      Technically speaking, every color other than blue, which is why it reflects blue light.

  5. a space rock with an orbital distance from the sun by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> a space rock with an orbital distance from the sun similar to that of Earth

    Presumably, that's why it almost hit us.

  6. Minor damage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    In what world does 30 times the energy of Hiroshima qualify as "minor damage"?

    1. Re:Minor damage by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In what world does 30 times the energy of Hiroshima qualify as "minor damage"?

      in the world where it explodes 30 times higher in the sky than the Hiroshima bomb.

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    2. Re:Minor damage by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Insightful

      (and without radioactivity)

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    3. Re:Minor damage by adjustinthings · · Score: 2

      Hiroshima was actually a rather small nuclear bomb. Bombs even 1000x stronger have been tested and guess what, we're still here. http://www.tsarbomba.org/image...

    4. Re:Minor damage by EvilSS · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In what world does 30 times the energy of Hiroshima qualify as "minor damage"?

      in the world where it explodes 30 times higher in the sky than the Hiroshima bomb.

      In a world where larger asteroids could wipe out most complex life on this planet, a rock "only" big enough to destroy a city is still pretty minor.

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    5. Re:Minor damage by stealth_finger · · Score: 1

      The world of relativity.

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    6. Re:Minor damage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, but their target/placement isn't. Look for the missing islands in the atoll where they tested the really big bombs.

    7. Re:Minor damage by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

      Pedantic note: The bomb dropped on Hiroshima wasn't "nuclear", it was "atomic". "Nuclear" (in the context of bombs) is short for "thermonuclear", which is a type of bomb that uses nuclear fusion to achieve most of its yield. They accomplish this using a smaller fission bomb to set off the fusion part of the bomb. "Atomic" bombs are fission-only devices with generally much smaller yields.

    8. Re:Minor damage by quenda · · Score: 2

      Pedantic note: The bomb dropped on Hiroshima wasn't "nuclear", it was "atomic".

      They are all "nuclear". Fission splits the nucleus in two.

      > uses nuclear fusion to achieve most of its yield.

      Not necessarily. In a big bomb, most of the yield can actually come from fission of the U238 tamper in the secondary.
      The "Tsara Bomba" was only 50MT instead of 100 because the replaced the U238 damper with lead.

      > "Atomic" bombs are fission-only devices

      No, not always. They can be fusion-boosted single-stage weapons.
      You're not real great at this "being pedantic" lark eh? :-)

    9. Re:Minor damage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      In what world does 30 times the energy of Hiroshima qualify as "minor damage"?

      in the world where it explodes 30 times higher in the sky than the Hiroshima bomb.

      In a world where larger asteroids could wipe out most complex life on this planet, a rock "only" big enough to destroy a city is still pretty minor.

      IN A WORLD, where larger asteroids could wipe out most complex life on this planet, ONE MAN stands between the wrath of God and life on earth as we know it.
      Coming this summer, SPACE POPE.

    10. Re: Minor damage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      By that thinking then a nuclear reactor must use fusion, right? What makes you think it is ok to post this bullshit?

    11. Re:Minor damage by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      In the terms of warheads aka bombs nuclear and atomic means the exact same thing.
      None of the words either implies fission (n)or fusion. That is true for languages like english, german etc.

      If you want to talk about fission bombs you use the word fission.
      If you want to talk about fusion bombs you use the word fusion, however in this case you can also call it a hydrogen bomb (again: common in languages like english and german).

      But thank you, Padawan, that you you are concerned about language hygiene, that is important, too!

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  7. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > That's just what they want you to believe.

    So there are lots of names, dates and places in it. These things can be checked. Corroborated. Or, in the alternative, you can figure out that certain people never visited certain countries at all and were celebrating their wife's birthday on the wrong side of the planet...

    Oh wait, who am I kidding. The "news" doesn't bother with trivial things like fact checking. They got pranked and now Trump knows which people in the GOP are willing to stab him in the back...

    > Meanwhile, people still pass around discredited emails about Clinton's homicides and the Obama birth conspiracy

    Speak for yourself, I never bought into that BS either.

  8. And they say there's no stealth in space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Boy, we sure saw everything around our planet to the ends of the solar system instantly and never could've missed anything, didn't we.

    1. Re:And they say there's no stealth in space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Current asteroid surveys are setup to focus on catching extinction level asteroids (Half a mile or larger), I think they have most of those cataloged (over 90%). They're still looking at some of the unlikely orbits where such asteroids might come from and trying to catalog more of the regional level catastrophe asteroids (~500' to half a mile, only about 27% cataloged). Small city/local level asteroids like these aren't even really seriously being searched for at present.

  9. Re:Trump Breached By Ass'roids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Asteroids are a Chinese hoax.

  10. We need one of these to hit by EvilSS · · Score: 0

    It's going to take a decent size rock hitting somewhere in the US before we finally start to take asteroid surveillance seriously. If one hits a major city (I volunteer Boston) suddenly we'll figure out that hey, maybe we should spend more than what we spend studying the asswiping habits of Filipino used car salesmen on trying to detect giant space rocks that can knock us back into the stone-age or worse.

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    1. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Nope - common folk will say that after one hit, the odds of another hit is vanishingly small, so why bother doing anything. In actuality the hits are statistically independent, but try to explain that on family TV.

    2. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't space rocks often go in groups? If so then probability of a hit raises for a while after the first hit.

    3. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      huh? the odds are vanishingly small. Its irrelevant whether theyre independent or not in terms of the "common folk" saying that the odds of Another hit are vanishingly small. They ARE vanishingly small. Whether or not one hits. So stop trying to be smart and sounding like a dumbass instead.

    4. Re:We need one of these to hit by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Given the US, I'd say it would serve no good use but to get people to fall onto their knees, pray and essentially do nothing useful.

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    5. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm a Filipino used care salesman and I wash my ass with a tabo, you insensitive clod!

    6. Re:We need one of these to hit by jbengt · · Score: 1

      . . . the odds of Another hit are vanishingly small.

      In the sense that when a big one eventually hits, we'll all vanish.

    7. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you are volunteering Boston, I volunteer Berkeley, California.

    8. Re:We need one of these to hit by MitchDev · · Score: 1

      I volunteer Washington DC with all of congress and the pres and vice-pres in town when it happens

    9. Re:We need one of these to hit by MitchDev · · Score: 1

      "get people to fall onto their knees, pray and essentially do nothing useful."

      Redundant

    10. Re:We need one of these to hit by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Should've written "generally" instead of "essentially", agreed.

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    11. Re:We need one of these to hit by MitchDev · · Score: 1

      "I'll pray for you" is the same as saying "I want to look like I care, but I don't care enough to actually do anything useful to help and can't admit there's nothing I can do"

    12. Re:We need one of these to hit by MitchDev · · Score: 1

      should be "help and/or can't"

    13. Re:We need one of these to hit by quenda · · Score: 1

      I volunteer Washington DC with all of congress and the pres and vice-pres in town when it happens

      You figure President Rex Tillerson will sort out the problem?

    14. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't space rocks often go in groups? If so then probability of a hit raises for a while after the first hit.

      For "small" ones, it's more a matter of where it hits than how many hit or how often. Most of the planet is covered in water and an airburst or surface strike isn't going to bother anything other than maybe a few fish. Even when you're talking about landmasses, there's a pretty good chunk of surface area that isn't inhabited.
      The problems start when one of these gets 'lucky' and pops right over a major city, especially if a bunch of people notice the light flash and all rush to stand in front of glass windows to get a good look right when the shockwave hits. IIRC there were less than a dozen people in the recent Russia event injured by anything other than flying glass from when the windows popped. And most of the problems they had in the aftermath were a result of having no windows right in the middle of a freezing ass cold winter.

    15. Re:We need one of these to hit by dcollins117 · · Score: 1

      "I'll pray for you" is the same as saying "I want to look like I care, but I don't care enough to actually do anything useful to help and can't admit there's nothing I can do"

      I always figured it was a passive-aggresive way of saying "I'm holier-than-thou."

    16. Re:We need one of these to hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, not Boston. It has to be Terre Haute

  11. Lucky by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

    If it didn't hit the Earth, how are we more or less lucky that it wasn't a planet killer?

    1. Re:Lucky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That's what *I* thought. Actually I wish it HAD been a planet killer -- becuase it missed us.

      And just like a gambler, that obviously means our chances for the next few years / millenia is greatly reduced.

    2. Re:Lucky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If a planet killer do hit, then the whole global warming money making racket will be ruined!

    3. Re:Lucky by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      False application of statistics. If statistics say that you'll have a flood every 30 years on average doesn't mean that because you had a flood this year it's impossible that there will be one next year. The chance for a flood is 1/30 every year. No matter how many floods you had in the past years.

      Same for asteroid hits. One missing today doesn't increase the chance of one hitting tomorrow.

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    4. Re:Lucky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unless the statistics were generated before 5 subdivisions went up in the area and the weather has changed, then flooding chances are more unreliable than you'd think. Similar to the thinking about the old space shuttle and estimates of failure which were not realistic.

    5. Re:Lucky by Deadstick · · Score: 1

      And here, ladies and gentlemen, is why Las Vegas floats on a sea of money.

    6. Re:Lucky by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      In that case the estimates are false, but the statistics don't change. With more cases happening it will have to be adjusted from "on average every 30 years" to "on average every 5 years", but it still remains the same chance, independent of whether there was a flood last year.

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    7. Re:Lucky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      False application of statistics. If statistics say that you'll have a flood every 30 years on average doesn't mean that because you had a flood this year it's impossible that there will be one next year. The chance for a flood is 1/30 every year. No matter how many floods you had in the past years.

      Same for asteroid hits. One missing today doesn't increase the chance of one hitting tomorrow.

      False application of statistics. Flooding is not a matter of pure random chance like you assumed. Rather, floods depend on other events and in some situations having a flood in a particular year means that is IS indeed less likely to occur the following year. In some cases, the opposite may be true.

      Same for asteroids. For example, if they tend to travel in clusters then having a near miss actually would mean you are at an increased risk of another one coming close in the near future. If, however, they are spread evenly then the risk is reduced for the short term as it means another won't be along for a while. But in both cases Statistics will claim that the chances of one coming along are equal every year, when in fact that is not true at all. Your statement can only be considered accurate if they follow a random distribution, where we don't know if they are clustered or spread evenly.

      Statistics can be a useful tool, but it can also be completely wrong when trying to describe anything which is not a matter of pure randomness.

    8. Re:Lucky by BlackPignouf · · Score: 1

      One missing today doesn't increase the chance of one hitting tomorrow.

      Are asteroids truly independent from each other? Couldn't they come from the same asteroid "cloud" or "belt"?
      I'm honestly asking, I have no idea.

    9. Re:Lucky by darkonc · · Score: 1

      It crosses our orbit which means that -- now that we know where it is -- we will probably notice that it comes 'near' earth on a semi-regular basis, and it may impact us sooner or later (sooner rather than later).. I, for one, am happy that it's not big enough to destroy more than a town or two if hits in a populated area -- rather than leaving a hole big enough to be noticed on a full-world map.

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    10. Re:Lucky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A few years ago, in the North Atlantic, they said we had three "hundred year storms" in three weeks. One right after another. I was out in it, and it was not a fun ride.

  12. Speed in Furlongs per Fortnight ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    36 feet wide, 120,000 miles ?!

    GROW UP.

    1. Re:Speed in Furlongs per Fortnight ? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 2

      Talking to your reflection in the mirror isn't going to help you mature. You might try interacting with other people.

    2. Re:Speed in Furlongs per Fortnight ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Crying about the metric system again ?!

      GROW UP.

    3. Re:Speed in Furlongs per Fortnight ? by fizzup · · Score: 1

      The radius of the asteroid does not affect the chances of impact.

      The chances of an asteroid hitting the earth, if randomly directed within a circle equal to the mean orbital distance of the moon, is one chance in (Rm/re)**2, which is (384/6.4)**2, or about one chance in 3600. The size of the asteroid does not have a material effect on the chances of impact because ra << re for all asteroids. Even Ceres has a radius that's an order of magnitude smaller than the Earth's.

      The size (mass, really) of the asteroid does have a material effect on the energy dissipated on impact, which is (mv**2)/2, where v is the velocity of the asteroid in the Earth's frame.

  13. The dangers... by rew · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > the close call highlights the dangers of asteroids.

    One: Nothing happened. So how dangerous was this? If it HAD hit, maybe several hundred people would've visited hospitals and some windows woudl have had to be replaced.

    Two: The danger is teaching people "an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, what if an asteroid kills us?". That is dangerous. A really BIG asteroid killed the dinosaurs. These small ones are nothing to worry about. Let's assume this thing is aiming for earth, but hits randomly somewhere inside the moon's orbit. The earth has a radius of about 6000km, the moon's orbit about 300000km. A ratio of 50, so the chances of hitting earth are 1/2500. The people making a stir about these things are the ones that stand to gain employment from scaring the general public about this.

    1. Re: The dangers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you volunteering to be staked above ground out as a test subject next time we know a little one idle going to hit ?
      If it had broken up at altitude,yer figures look ok but if it hit oh say,new York,I think yer figures are a bit optimistic.

    2. Re:The dangers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is more than one of them.

    3. Re:The dangers... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It was Chelyabinsk-sized. A direct hit on a city could kill millions of people.

    4. Re:The dangers... by swb · · Score: 2

      Would the Chelyabinsk rock have caused millions of deaths had hit in exactly the same way, except with a major city as its epicenter?

      My non-rocket-scientist reading of the wikipedia page made it sound like it's shallow entry angle caused it to lose a lot of its energy in the atmosphere and that secondary effects (like broken windows from the airburst) was where most of the injuries came from. Although that kind of airburst over a place filled with glass curtain-wall skyscrapers may actually make it more dangerous in some ways.

      I guess we can be lucky that 70% of earth is covered by oceans, so conservatively even if a similar size rock hits again we've got a conservative 60% chance it happens over depopulated ocean.

    5. Re:The dangers... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Ignoring the flash flood something like this would probably cause, yes...

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    6. Re:The dangers... by El+Cubano · · Score: 1

      It was Chelyabinsk-sized. A direct hit on a city could kill millions of people.

      I am having trouble putting this in perspective. Could you convert to VW Beetles, Libraries of Congress, or their metric equivalents?

    7. Re:The dangers... by swb · · Score: 1

      I guess its an angle of entry thing, where with a shallow trajectory it gets more time to heat up in the atmosphere and explode there versus a high trajectory where it direct impact would cause a problem.

      But assuming a direct hit over deep water in the Pacific, what kind of coastal inundation could we really expect? Can a 10-40 meter rock displace enough water in the center of an ocean actually produce significant wave action far away?

      The underwater nuke tests like Wigwam (30 kt) don't seem to have done much.

    8. Re:The dangers... by tomhath · · Score: 1

      Those who think humans could do anything to stop even a small asteroid, let alone a big one, need to read this report. Something around 36 hours between it being detected and it passing Earth. Maybe enough time to evacuate part of a medium sized city but that's about all.

    9. Re:The dangers... by ledow · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You can't just divide the numbers. Gravity pulls stuff in, and the windows are tiny. Think Apollo 13 - only a tiny offset makes the difference between direct catastrophic entry and bouncing off the atmosphere.

      And we have NO WAY to change that trajectory anyhow.

      Also, statistically the chances are that most humans will die in such an impact - they're rare but when they happen they are INCREDIBLY serious. This was a BIG object, it would have changed life forever. It would have been "an event" not just a random meteorite landing on a desert or ocean.

      Also, the bit you're missing? We basically missed this. It's been circling the Sun forever, it's been going to hit us forever, and we didn't spot it. We probably don't have a way to effectively spot it and others like it.

      And a few thousands of a degree change in its arc and it would have been something that people recorded for the rest of future history and killed millions. It was only sheer chance that we "escaped".

      So, actually, as a mathematician and therefore of a scientific mind, this is a damn sight more important than what some orange fool said about some actress. By orders of magnitude.

      Roll on the day when THIS is the news and not all that other junk.

    10. Re:The dangers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Let's hope it happens soon, and that it takes out a bunch of the useless scum
      who make up the majority of humans on earth.

    11. Re:The dangers... by meglon · · Score: 1

      It also depends on what type it is. Chelyabinsk was a low metal/low iron chondrite; had it been a nickle/iron it (most likely) wouldn't have disintegrated/exploded like it did (regardless of entry angle). If that were the case, consider what a ~500kt nuke would do in downtown Los Angeles.

      The other way to answer the OP, though.... while these events are rare (on the order of once every 60 years), I think that describing something 13,000 to 14,000 tons traveling ~40,000 miles per hour as "nothing to worry about," is a bit silly.... especially if it's aimed at you.

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    12. Re:The dangers... by avandesande · · Score: 1

      It's not unreasonable to assume that with advances in computation and optics we can push this detection window out a lot further. Just a matter of will and funding....

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    13. Re:The dangers... by Trachman · · Score: 0

      The classic is olympic size pools and school buses. Also Chelyabinsk is a city still better known for it's metallurgy, rather than asteroid.

    14. Re:The dangers... by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

      And we have NO WAY to change that trajectory anyhow.

      Sure we do, or at least we would if we invested some resources into the project. If we spotted city-killers like this far out enough (with enough warning time), it's entirely possible to change their trajectory through various means: solar sails, painting them white, strapping a rocket engine to the side, etc. But we need to know about it well, well in advance so we can accurately predict whether it's a threat, and then work on modifying its trajectory over the course of years to reduce that threat. That can't be done if we're too stupid to invest some resources into looking for these NEOs and also developing measures to redirect them safely. But if we as a species are so dumb we'd rather invest all our resources into making nuclear weapons to bully each other with instead of making ways to protect ourselves from cosmic threats to our species, then maybe we deserve to get wiped out by an asteroid like the dinosaurs.

    15. Re:The dangers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The only way to get funding for such a project is to spin it to the military as a way to steer these things so they could be used as a weapon of war. That'll get all the funding it needs.

    16. Re: The dangers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Absolutely it would cause a major tsunami. You cant think of this as just a 30m rock striking water. This is a 30m rock doing 60,000 mph. The kinetic energy would superheat and vaporize and explode a large volume of water upon impact.

    17. Re:The dangers... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      Let me guess - you're an house philosopher with Greenpeace?

    18. Re:The dangers... by Sperbels · · Score: 1

      The people making a stir about these things are the ones that stand to gain employment from scaring the general public

      So, news writers and editors then.

    19. Re:The dangers... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Libraries of Congress

      Well the library of congress is a library as we all know. All libraries have a librarian. So just imagine that millions of these librarians gathered and decided to live in one place forming a city. Now imagine that this asteroid came in and killed the millions of librarians in the city.

      So the answer is millions of libraries of congress.

    20. Re:The dangers... by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 1

      You could get massive action if you announced that there is oil in the asteroid.

      But then they would be trying to invade it and/or make it crash into the Earth, which is what we were trying to avoid. So, er, nevermind.

    21. Re:The dangers... by avandesande · · Score: 1

      apollo 13 was a movie for christsake.

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    22. Re: The dangers... by rew · · Score: 1

      Absolutely!

      The thing is I do things that are WAY more risky on a daily basis. Like everybody. I'll take the risk of "being above ground when an asteroid takes a shot at us" over "driving to work" any day.

  14. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Carrington event.
    Supervolcano.
    Asteroid impact.
    Widespread cretinism.

    Take your pick.

    1. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Look out for "Cascadia Subduction Zone", if you live in the west of the USA/Canada (or Japan's east coast)

    2. Re:Meh by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      Carrington event.
      Supervolcano.
      Asteroid impact.
      Widespread cretinism.
      Take your pick.

      All of the above.

      Oh, is it Christmas again? Or was that last week?

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      Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
  15. What in the hell is "Slooh"? by Nutria · · Score: 1

    "The solstice is a moment when the changing seasons and celestial rhythms of the planet are in unison as the northern latitudes acknowledge the shortest day of the year while the southern latitudes mark the calendarâ(TM)s march forward from the longest. Slooh will celebrate this global phenomenon by featuring live views of the Sun from both hemispheres as a means of fostering our deep and primal connection to Earth and sky.

    Do they also feature live views of Wiccans dancing around Stonehenge at the Equinoxes?

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    1. Re:What in the hell is "Slooh"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      From the Wikipedia entry:

      The name Slooh comes from the word "slew" to indicate the movement of a telescope, modified with "ooh" to express pleasure and surprise.

    2. Re:What in the hell is "Slooh"? by Nutria · · Score: 1

      That doesn't encourage me very much... :(

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  16. Asteroids can damage your health by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Winners don't do drugs!

    1. Re: Asteroids can damage your health by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They only do stimulants

  17. I need my safe space by Grand+Facade · · Score: 1, Funny

    Space rocks must be outlawed!

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  18. Astronomers by Grand+Facade · · Score: 1

    Were too busy trying to make the Trump/Russia connection,

    AG13 just snuck up on them.

    "Will someone bring Eric some fresh knickers, he's stinking up the place!"

    --
    Rick B.
    1. Re:Astronomers by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      About EVERY halfway decent rock that hit earth in the more recent past was in Russia. C'mon people, it's SO damn obvious!

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  19. Passed by the Earth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How did the Earth eat it in the first place?

  20. Re:a space rock with an orbital distance from the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Right; that didn't make a lot of sense. At first I figured they meant the mean orbital distance, then they said if is elliptical between Earth and Venus orbits which would mean the mean isn't the same orbit as Earth either. I always wonder when reading these - since I don't have a mathematical knowledge of orbital mechanics and gravity - whether these objects even stay in their prior orbit after coming so close to Earth. Wouldn't their orbit significantly shift or be "perturbed" or whatever?

  21. Re:a space rock with an orbital distance from the by Deadstick · · Score: 3, Informative

    A common measure of the "size" of an orbit is the semimajor axis -- which is half the length of the ellipse. You can have an orbit with a semimajor axis intermediate between those of Earth and Venus that can intersect both of them at various times, if its eccentricity is big enough.

    Every gravitational interaction between two bodies alters both their orbits, to a degree that depends on their relative masses and on how close the approach is. This one's orbit will almost certainly change significantly -- hell, even Earth's orbit will change, but by an amount too small to observe.

  22. I never understood lying about jackasses by raymorris · · Score: 0

    > But seriously, there's no need to make up stories about Trump. Just put a Twitter connected smartphone in his hands and he'll do the job of discrediting himself.

    Yeah I never understood telling lies about nasty people like Trump and Clinton - you only discredit *yourself* when you tell lies. If you want to point out that Trump and Clinton suck, just quote what they actually said. They are self-flaming.

  23. The moon is far by Nukenbar · · Score: 3, Informative

    remember this is the real scale of the Earth to the moon.

    http://colchrishadfield.tumblr.com/image/57696912776

    1. Re:The moon is far by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yep.

      http://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/

  24. Re:a space rock with an orbital distance from the by number6x · · Score: 1

    Aten asteroids are defined by having the semi-major axis of their elliptical orbit be less than one AU. So your guess about 'mean orbit' is pretty close.

    A list of known Aten asteroids doesn't seem to be updated with this one yet.

  25. Maybe the next one will hit the Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If we get lucky it will hit Washington DC.

  26. Last viable candidate to drop out by T.E.D. · · Score: 1

    *sigh*. 2016 will go down in history as the year every single campaign, including Giant Meteor 2016, failed us all.

    1. Re:Last viable candidate to drop out by PPH · · Score: 1

      Even though my candidate didn't win, we could say he came close.

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  27. raymorris = liar discredits himself quoted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I don't shoot my mouth off without knowing what I'm talking about" - by raymorris (2726007) on Thursday December 31, 2015 @09:29AM (#51215379)

    Raymorris you shoot your mouth off f'ing up in 2 security fuckups https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47379233/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47374033/ + raymorris = scriptkiddie https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8895203&cid=51726265/

    &

    Tell us how ONLY 'newer script kiddie tools' have stringlength built in (when PASCAL had it for ages - my fav tool) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8472509&cid=51114383/ YOU BLUNDERING WANNABE!

    APK

    P.S.=> You like to talk behind others' backs like the gossiping bitch TROLL you are raymorris https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9880997&cid=53312265/ well, here I am letting YOU TALK in those links, showing your FAILS wannabe ... apk

    1. Re:raymorris = liar discredits himself quoted by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      APK, get over yourself. You are the only one who cares.

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  28. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by harvey+the+nerd · · Score: 1

    There's more than one crazy born every minute...

  29. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by harvey+the+nerd · · Score: 1

    He produced at least one fraudulent pdf of one...with 9 layers

  30. Re:a space rock with an orbital distance from the by hey! · · Score: 1

    I believe GP was puckishly alluding to the fact a "near-miss" by definition implies an instantaneous orbital distance approximately equal to that of the Earth.

    As for near Earth asteroid orbits being perturbed -- sure. It's believed that most of them will remain in their orbits for only a few million years before they are ejected or hit something.

    But it may clarify things to note that asteroids routinely strike the Earth's atmosphere. Automated systems on any night might pick up a dozen meteors an hour you'd be able to see -- if you happen to be looking in the right direction and you don't blink. The catch is most of the asteroids that create these meteors are tiny -- grains of dust or pea sized grave. Around 100 tons of meteors fall on the Earth every day, mostly dust particles.

    From an orbital mechanics standpoint there's no real difference between an asteroid the size of a grain of rice and a one the size of a school bus. So probably the best way to think of it is that asteroid strikes are a routine event that happen every few minutes. It's just that from a public safety standpoint we're only interested in unusually large specimens.

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  31. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He produced at least one fraudulent pdf of one...with 9 layers

    If you're saying that the state of Hawaii is letting President Barack Obama get away with making a false document, when they have a real and authentic copy in their archives, then you should get to Honolulu and file a suit for an inspection.

    It's either there, or it isn't.

    Stop whining to us about immaterial things, cut the bullshit, and deliver.

  32. What is the solution? Detect ... and deflect. by CyclistOne · · Score: 1

    (Sorry, but don't recall where I got the following, but it wasn't that long ago.): Why care about asteroids possibly hitting the earth? The odds in your children's lifetime: "City-killer"-sized - 30% (Larger than the one which hit Russia in 1908.) (There are about a million near-earth asteroids out there about this size. We've located about 10,000 of them. "World War"-sized - 1% (The chance of your house burning down is less than 1% Do you buy insurance for that?). "End-of-us-all"-sized - .001% What is the solution? Detect ... and deflect. On Feb. 15, 2013 a small asteroid hit Siberia. It was about 50 feet in diameter. Explosive effect was about 30 X the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

  33. Well... by MitchDev · · Score: 1

    That too ;)

  34. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by Cute+Fuzzy+Bunny · · Score: 1

    Other than it not being true as a legit birth certificate was produced, riddle me this Batman...lets say he was born in Kenya, is a muslim, and wants to take all of our guns.

    He had 8 years in office. What exactly did he do that makes any of that relevant?

    (...waiting for the blurry obfuscated implausible answer, like "he destroyed the economy" when he produced the a huge economic recovery or "he cozied up with Isis" when in fact he bombed the crap out of them, or "he was too soft on our enemies" when he came into office with the vast majority of voters saying they wanted to get out of the two wars we were already in and not start another...)

  35. Re:Trump Breached By Ass'roids by Cute+Fuzzy+Bunny · · Score: 1

    I think that proctologists should be renamed astronauts.

  36. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by harvey+the+nerd · · Score: 1

    anything can happen after Jan 19...

  37. Re:50 Shades of Orange by MoaDweeb · · Score: 1

    The 'document' regarding Mr Trump has more validity than Mr Trump's claims about Mr Obama's nationality and birthplace.

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  38. raymorris = liar quoted discrediting himself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I don't shoot my mouth off without knowing what I'm talking about" - by raymorris (2726007) on Thursday December 31, 2015 @09:29AM (#51215379)

    Raymorris you shoot your mouth off f'ing up in 2 security fuckups https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47379233/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47374033/ + raymorris = scriptkiddie https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8895203&cid=51726265/

    &

    Tell us how ONLY 'newer script kiddie tools' have stringlength built in (when PASCAL had it for ages - my fav tool) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8472509&cid=51114383/ YOU BLUNDERING WANNABE!

    * TRYING TO sockpuppet unjustifiably DOWNMOD "hide" this 2x now too ray? Weak (like you are wannabe) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10103335&cid=53648161/ + https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10103335&cid=53649133/ opensores WALLY that you are, lol...

    APK

    P.S.=> You like to talk behind others' backs like the gossiping bitch TROLL you are raymorris https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9880997&cid=53312265/ well, here I am letting YOU TALK in those links, showing your FAILS wannabe ... apk

  39. Re: 50 Shades of Orange by Coren22 · · Score: 1

    He let Russia take Crimea?

    You asked, just figured I would deliver.

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  40. Correction! by gerald.edward.butler · · Score: 1

    The YOUNG Space Pope! Starring Jude Lawe! Coming soon on HBO! With Tit-Tays!

  41. Coren22, stfu you pussy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Or I'll destroy you publicly as I did here easily you pitiful undereducated wannabe menial https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ or here https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8272255&cid=50863397/ & I can provide dozens of such examples regarding YOU, wannabe.

    * By the way, your little reply shows YOU care - it also lets me show how easily I've handed you YOUR ASS before too, lol!

    APK

    P.S.=> It must SUCK to know you're so weak technically & that I exposed that publicly, that you're STILL butthurt over it (which is all you're showing us loser) trying to "get to me" & all it does is let me expose your MANY shortcomings... apk

    1. Re:Coren22, stfu you pussy by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Pussy? Really? I wasn't the one who backed down last time. Keep it coming, you only prove your mental illness.

      Also, it is kind of funny that you post links to where I totally thrashed you. You really need to check yourself, you always declare victory before even making a point. The only person who thinks you win arguments is you, posting as if you are an interested third party, as if that isn't obvious.

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  42. My last post shows your results (poor) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See my subject: Fact is, you're TOO fucking stupid & unskilled in the art & science of computing to EVER get the best of me, menial!

    APK

    P.S.=> The diff. between MY post is I actually show where I rip you in half on MANY points - you? Nothing but HOT AIR bs lies... apk

    1. Re:My last post shows your results (poor) by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      You mean like you using a bridge? Who doesn't get computing? Also, your comment about using group policy to distribute hosts files as if it is a good solution to the problem?

      Yeah, I never get the best of you, except in every conversation we have.

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  43. I do it properly using bridged setups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: You're SO dumb you couldn't figure out I used DSL to avoid detection of my IP as it changes on reset (of modem alone OR the bridged router controlling a modem in dumb terminal mode when bridged). I also have a TON of examples like the 2 links above where I shot you to pieces above those!

    APK

    P.S.=> Coren22 face facts - you're a MENIAL - anything you do I have done LONG ago, & other things I do? You can't touch (show us code you've written, specifically GUI programs others like & use (especially on /. - I can easily))... apk

    1. Re:I do it properly using bridged setups by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Um, if you are using a bridged router, you have about the most insecure network I have heard of. Did you build Hillary's email server too?

      I also forgot about your since recanted DNS BL mistake, I also pointed that one out to you, and you corrected your list to reflect the change.

      Also, I have to ask, why do you keep mentioning a book name as if it is some kind of obscure tome?

      https://www.google.com/search?...

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  44. Group policy? I never said that idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Show me where I said that. Domain level admins can migrate hosts to pc/server endpoints by batch easily!

    APK

    P.S.=> Look - I know for a FACT you're mentally disturbed (assburgers, lol) but you'd best get your memory checked because you're obviously 'scrambled' upstairs - your memory is faulty... apk

    1. Re:Group policy? I never said that idiot by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Sure they can...if they are morons who don't know how DNS works, and is REQUIRED for Active Directory already. I can see you haven't run any networks, it was already obvious from your bridge comments, and the fact that you don't even understand what a bridge is. But this seals the deal.

      I also have to ask...do you often forget previous conversations? I didn't pull that group policy comment out of my ass, it was a response you gave me as to why you feel DNS shouldn't host the entries from your hosts files, even in a domain environment, where DNS is required for the proper functioning of the network. Perhaps if you actually bothered to have an account I could point it out to you, instead you hide behind AC so that your previous comments can't be used against you. You have proven yourself to be incompetent with networks, maybe you are afraid of further incompetence being demonstrated as well?

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  45. More 'semantic quibbling' from Coren22 lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Mere "semantic word game quibbling" like your bridge setup quibbling is - I do it & it works (& I've done setups like that odds are BEFORE you were born possibly).

    DNS block lists are what I meant (/. restricts my post size so I abbreviated to try offset that) proof is on my download page @ start64 for my program (where I can write it out in full).

    Coren22 - face facts: There's a reason I've individually done well & have quite a few good accomplishments in computing & you don't, lol - I'm more knowledgeable & skilled by far on far more levels than you are in it.

    APK

    P.S.=> Now, show us you've written programs in GUI form that /. users like & use (or that the likes of malwarebytes' folks hosts & recommends as I have) - you? CAN'T, lol... & show us where I said GROUP POLICY is for migrating hosts (you can't either)... apk

  46. More AD lies? Solid proof inside vs. it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 already posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ 2nd link, above (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide

    & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> Minus guys like me in coders that make tools FOOLS like you merely use? U R HELPLESS!... apk

    1. Re:More AD lies? Solid proof inside vs. it by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      If you want people to remind you of things you have said, create an account and use it. Until then, you are asking for the needle you threw in a haystack. After all, you are one of the most prolific posters on this board.

      Also, if you have this much trouble remembering conversations you have participated in, perhaps you need to be tested for alzheimer's.

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  47. Coren22 I don't need acct 2 prove you lie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your AD lies regarding me exposed proven your defective brain is indeed, defective:

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 already posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] 2nd link, above (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide ... & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> BOTTOM-LINE: Backup your bs - I can easily as shown above with solid proof vs. your lies... apk

    1. Re:Coren22 I don't need acct 2 prove you lie by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      You are simultaneously posting anonymously to avoid being quoted, and asking to be quoted. Perhaps you need to go back to high school, yous logic is terrible.

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  48. Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" liar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & proof via you quoted lying about me that you can't disprove https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10103335&cid=53697035/

    * Come on "Mr. Citation" - BACK UP YOUR BS WITH PROOF (you can't, but I can & did easily in that link above THAT YOU ARE A LIAR & BRAIN-DAMAGED as you can't even recall your screwup QUOTED there above... no escaping it, lol!).

    APK

    P.S.=> Coren22 - cat got your tongue? apk

    1. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" liar by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Login and comment, then you can request people to quote your old comments.

      It just makes me so warm and fuzzy when you show me this much attention. It is so cute that you think saying the same thing over and over again will change the response though, it is almost like you don't understand how conversations work.

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    2. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" liar by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Funny, but you are the one who is claiming to not remember having conversations you have had with me previously and asking for proof. This would be an indication of previously undiagnosed alzheimer's, which would indeed be a brain defect.

      When you start logging in to make comments, you can ask people to provide you with proof, until then your use of AC is intentionally hiding your posting history. You know this, and have even commented on it yourself previously when challenged about not logging in. The only conclusion I can therefore come to is that this is an attempt to lie and deceive. Perhaps you should think these things through before you, yet again, post the same damn argument I have no responded to 4 times.

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  49. Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" liar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your AD lies regarding me exposed proven your defective brain is indeed, defective:

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I said AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide ... & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> BOTTOM-LINE: Backup your bs - I can easily as shown above with solid proof vs. your lies... apk

  50. Backup your lies Coren22 (you can't) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your AD lies regarding me exposed proved your defective brain is indeed, defective:

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I said AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide ... & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> BOTTOM-LINE: Backup your bs - I can easily as shown above with solid proof vs. your lies... apk

    1. Re:Backup your lies Coren22 (you can't) by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Do you honestly think my answer will change significantly the more you post the exact same request? Who do you think is being made into a fool here?

      Ask again, pretty please.

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  51. Coren22 you made a lying fool of yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your AD lies regarding me exposed proved your defective brain is indeed, defective:

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I said AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide ... & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> BOTTOM-LINE: Backup your bs (you can't obviously & keep trolling) - I can easily as shown above with solid proof vs. your lies... apk

    1. Re:Coren22 you made a lying fool of yourself by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Show us.

      No.

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  52. That's it coward liar: RUN... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: It's all you know. Your AD lies regarding me exposed proved your defective brain is indeed, defective:

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I said AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide ... & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> BOTTOM-LINE: Backup your bs (you can't obviously & keep trolling) - I can easily as shown above with solid proof vs. your lies... apk

    1. Re:That's it coward liar: RUN... apk by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      It appears that I am still here. Am I running on a treadmill? You are the one who hides your posts behind AC, so wouldn't you be the one running and hiding?

      Show us.

      No, you know that I can't, which is intentional on your part. You hide, not I.

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  53. I hope you get a +5 comment Coren22 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: It'll be nice for exposing your AD lies about me + proving your assburger brain's truly defective:

    "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015

    Where'd I say it? Show us. I said AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 posted in my 1st post here to you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965167/ (where YOU came in here starting your lie bs again, not I bugging you).

    See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide ... & stupid? ANY directory service (pretty much) uses DNS so quit putting words in my mouth I never said (show me where I did).

    APK

    P.S.=> BOTTOM-LINE: Backup your bs (you can't obviously & keep trolling) - I can easily as shown above with solid proof vs. your lies... apk

    1. Re:I hope you get a +5 comment Coren22 by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Funny, as all you have exposed is yourself, and no one wants to see that.

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  54. Coren22 = name on your birth certificate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Coren22 you HIDE behind a FAKE NAME online for your FAKE LIFE!

    APK

    P.S.=> See my subject - answer it... apk

    1. Re:Coren22 = name on your birth certificate? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Aww, did you want to send me flowers to express your undying love for me? Grow up APK, I am younger than you, but I know better than to use my real name online. The only reason it burns you is that you want to stalk and harass me in person. I don't need to give my real name, as it has no bearing on the conversation, and won't help you to disprove anything I have typed.

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      APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
  55. You're a BIG mouth lying blowhard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "APK, I have done so much more than you" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:19PM (#52684621)

    Coren22 what commercialware's your code as mine's is? Does malwarebytes host + recommend your work as mine currently is? What trade show did your work do well in like mine? What books, magazines, newspapers articles in computer science feature your work like I've done?

    Ok - PROVE IT!

    You should just admit you're a lying "ne'er-do-well" bigmouth (it's quite clear you haven't done shit)

    APK

    P.S.=> You know DAMN WELL you can't backup your BIG blowhard mouth fool... apk