If the big ass rock doesn't crack, you still ejected material in one direction at extremely high speed. Did you actually read my post? And, how many asteroids are pure nickle/iron?
And, what is this "100 mph" nonsense? We don't NEED to make any delta changes that drastic. Try to visualize this now. A quarter million miles out, there is a big rock aimed DIRECTLY at earth. It's going to take six weeks to get here. We detonate a warhead, which launches only a single ton of debris in a sun-ward direction, at extremely high speed. Your 200 ton rock is now 199 tons, which has absorbed the same amount of energy that launched the one ton of rock, well in excess of 1000 mph. That 199 tons is still going to come near earth, but it has six weeks to move OUTWARD from the sun.
Better still, to detect that threatening asteroid a million miles out, or multiples of millions of miles. The earlier you detect, the earlier you detonate, the larger the CUMULATIVE effect of even a very small change in course.
Unfortunately, It seems most people visualize a straight-on missile strike, as if they expect an explosion to just STOP the asteroid. We don't want to stop it - we merely need to deflect it a few fractions of a degree.
/sarcasm/ Oh yes, I forgot - the UN has prevented the US from invading literally DOZENS of countries, for fun and profit. In 2002, the UN put it's foot down, and firmly denied permission to invade Iraq. Yep, I remember now.
Which scenario is ludicrous? Screaming past a cop on a motorcycle, at speeds that he can't hope to match?
There are many videos on Youtube that are clearly bogus. There are more that are less clearly bogus. But, if you browse through the selections, you will see that it happens often enough. The Hayabusa is supposed to be the fastest production bike in the world today, and there are many videos of people trying to prove that idea. There was a day when I rode a machine good for about 185 mph, and at that time, there weren't ANY cop cars that could go that fast. Fact is, today's bikes are even faster, but the cop cars haven't kept pace.
Sadly - outrunning the cop car doesn't end the story. Dashcams that capture your license plate number ensure that they WILL catch up to you, sometime.
You don't detonate on the surface, nor do you detonate a low altitude. You hit it with a penetrator. The deeper you can penetrate, the better. If you can actually SPLIT the huge ass rock, the several largest parts begin moving away from each other, at fairly rapid speeds. If it's so huge you can't split it, you at least launch many tons of debris in one direction at high speed, while the remaining larger body moves in the opposite direction at a much slower speed. And, that much slower speed is precisely the reason you need to detect, then act, MONTHS in advance. Waiting until impact minus 10 days is pretty much the same as not acting at all. A detonation that late might change the point of impact on earth be a few thousand miles, but it can't ensure a miss.
Actually - no. I think it safe to say that most of the world's billionaires inherited huge fortunes. How many billionaires alive today started with nothing, or near to nothing? Steve ain't alive, but he's recent enough that I'll give you one for him. There's the Microsoft schmuck, and the Facebook douche - who else?
Every time we sign a treaty, we lose a little more sovereignty. It's the rest of you suckers who haven't figured out the truth. That is why the US keeps insisting on trade agreements and copyright treaties. My government is busily eroding the sovereignty of all your nations with those idiot treaties. You think WE are going to be suckered into playing that game from the LOSING SIDE?
The rules of the house are "House always wins". Why become a player, when you can write your own damned rules?
I've believed the UN to be as worthless as teats on a boar hog for almost as long as I've appreciated a nice pair of teats on a female homo sapien. That's almost fifty years of careful consideration for you, rather than a knee-jerk.
Here, in the US, the police helicopter is called in, as often as possible. But, that doesn't end the ground chase at all - the chopper just witnesses the ground chase, and if the occupants bail, help to direct ground forces to the suspects.
The ONLY times I've seen a ground unit break off pursuit, is when he has been left in the dust so badly, that he can't even pretend to be chasing any longer.
Before anyone asks - that generally happens when some damn fool on a motorcycle comes flashing by at speeds over 150. Not that I would ever think about committing such a heinous crime, LMAO!!
Parenthetically, I often wondered what it SOUNDED like when a bike blasted past. Found out one late night in Chicago, when several dozen bikes passed me, well over 150 mph. Then, several more at slightly more sane speeds like 120 or so, then a couple hundred running merely 100 mph or so. My own speed at the time, was 85, and those first bikes blasting past startled the hell out of me!
The thing that no one has mentioned yet, is that cops aren't going to "back off" at all. Each and every cop in the chase is racing for his "opportunity" to make a high profile bust. So - Joe Rookie manages to plant a GPS bullet on or into a suspect's car, and slows down a little. Sergeant Badass is going to come whizzing past Joe, so that he can get the "collar" in his record, and listen to the cheers from his comrades at the local cop bar. Screw that GPS sucker - from Badass' point of view, it looked like a miss anyway.
You are obviously poorly educated, my friend. Let me help you with a basic concept. Any activity which fails to enrich either an American corporation, or the wealthiest 1%, or both, is by default "illegitimate". Your purpose in life is to help to amass more fortunes for those who already have more money than they can ever hope to spend. If you are not fulfilling that purpose, then you are illegitimate.
Check your sarcasm meter - the above is sarcasm because I have posted it. Had a RIAA rep posted it, there would be no sarcasm at all - he would be 100% serious.
Given a choice between the survival of Anonymous, and any of the *AA groups - my thumbs up goes to Anonymous. Any organization that represents corporate interests over citizen's rights will get the thumbs down from me. I'm pretty neutral regarding Anonymous - they do as much or more good than they do bad. None of the *AA groups can claim the same.
The agency you ask about would be the DHS. That agency is itself a Frankenstein's monster. It has swallowed old established agencies, and spawned new agencies, and hopes to swallow more agencies in the future. There is no limit to what can be created under the auspices of "homeland security".
Ehhhh. "people shown to be wrong are more likely to be dedicated to the wrong facts" Yeah, maybe - I've witnessed that in real life. Usually, those people aren't especially intelligent. They may not be real dummies, but they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, either. "it takes someone with an open mind, or little emotional investment, to have their opinion changed" Personally, I have little emotional investment in any set of facts. As a small child, I thought the sun and the moon chased each other across the sky, above a stationary earth. When presented with conflicting facts, I evaluated those facts, and chose which facts to believe. I've always presumed that all intelligent people do the same.
Political leanings are somewhat different. But, I still don't have a lot of emotional attachment to my political views. Maybe some of the very basic opinions, like the basic libertarian idea that government shouldn't be involved in people's every day lives. That, I'm VERY emotionally attached to. But, I'm most certainly not attached to any person, or any particular point in the party's stance. Just, "smaller is better" and "stay out of people's lives". I can accept some socialist ideas, some liberal ideas, some conservative ideas - basically take the best of each, and dismiss the rest.
How do people even GET "emotionally attached" to progressivism, or neoconservatism, or any of the other isms?'
To me, that's just insane. I won't place my trust, or emotional attachment, in any party, platform, or candidate. FFS - I would first have to forget that each party and candidate is looking out for number one, and that once my vote is cast, none of them gives the smallest damn about me, or mine.
Speaking of ethics - what makes it acceptable for the left to stand on the graves of the victims, politicizing their deaths? You people just can't WAIT for the next mass shooting, so that you can dance on the bodies, proclaiming "I told you so!".
Meanwhile - Chicago has the highest death toll by handguns in the WORLD. Imagine that. You won't address those statistics, will you? The strictest gun regulations in the world lead to the highest death toll. Which death toll is higher - that of Chicago, or that of Iraq?
Amazing that some of you think that way. You see a firearm as a penis replacement. I suppose that some gun owners are insecure, and also view their weapons as a macho appendage. Strange stuff happens. But, you. What about you? Why do YOU see a firearm as a penis? What is it about a firearm that makes you think penises? Are you insecure? Do you have penis envy? Are you jealous of anyone who can handle a weapon, without fear? Oh - are you AFRAID of penises?
I wish that we could get some qualified psychoanalysts to figure out what is happening inside a liberal's mind, when he sees penises being carried around in public.
More accurately, an idiot is incapable of changing his views. Anyone with a working brain evaluates and considers news and opinions. Well presented views, news, and opinions SHOULD enable a person to change his own views. GP deserves a nod of respect, whether you agree with his opinions or not.
If twenty million of us give government a dollar each to build a road, a road will be built. The value of the road will be about six million, and the remaining fourteen million will be used to attack little brown men on camels with drones.
You poor, clueless fool. A Constitutional Congress is the LAST THING we need right now. If one were convened, who in HELL do you think will actually sit at the table, to author the freaking documents? Do you really want representatives of RIAA to help author, then vote, on a new constitution? Think - that's what God gave you all that gray matter inside your skull for.
What we NEED, is to get rid of all those judges who believe the Constitution to be a "living document". We NEED a lot more real conservatives in judge positions. And, by "conservative", I certainly DO NOT MEAN neoconservatives, corporate lobbyists, or representatives of the military industrial complex. I mean, real, actual conservatives. There are so few of them left today.
What we see in that video, is an attempt at damage control. NSA has taken several hard hits over the past months, and they are "reaching out" in an attempt to lull the herds.
Let me guess - you simply ASSume that the entire United States Army will obey orders to begin firing those weapons at their fellow citizens, right? The Navy, Marines, and Air Force the same, right?
Didja ever stop to think that a lot of us who are bitching about gun control are also VETERANS?
Don't worry your little head to much though, because we are still bitching. When we STOP bitching, you will know that the shit has hit the fan.
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If the big ass rock doesn't crack, you still ejected material in one direction at extremely high speed. Did you actually read my post? And, how many asteroids are pure nickle/iron?
And, what is this "100 mph" nonsense? We don't NEED to make any delta changes that drastic. Try to visualize this now. A quarter million miles out, there is a big rock aimed DIRECTLY at earth. It's going to take six weeks to get here. We detonate a warhead, which launches only a single ton of debris in a sun-ward direction, at extremely high speed. Your 200 ton rock is now 199 tons, which has absorbed the same amount of energy that launched the one ton of rock, well in excess of 1000 mph. That 199 tons is still going to come near earth, but it has six weeks to move OUTWARD from the sun.
Better still, to detect that threatening asteroid a million miles out, or multiples of millions of miles. The earlier you detect, the earlier you detonate, the larger the CUMULATIVE effect of even a very small change in course.
Unfortunately, It seems most people visualize a straight-on missile strike, as if they expect an explosion to just STOP the asteroid. We don't want to stop it - we merely need to deflect it a few fractions of a degree.
/sarcasm/ Oh yes, I forgot - the UN has prevented the US from invading literally DOZENS of countries, for fun and profit. In 2002, the UN put it's foot down, and firmly denied permission to invade Iraq. Yep, I remember now.
Which scenario is ludicrous? Screaming past a cop on a motorcycle, at speeds that he can't hope to match?
There are many videos on Youtube that are clearly bogus. There are more that are less clearly bogus. But, if you browse through the selections, you will see that it happens often enough. The Hayabusa is supposed to be the fastest production bike in the world today, and there are many videos of people trying to prove that idea. There was a day when I rode a machine good for about 185 mph, and at that time, there weren't ANY cop cars that could go that fast. Fact is, today's bikes are even faster, but the cop cars haven't kept pace.
Sadly - outrunning the cop car doesn't end the story. Dashcams that capture your license plate number ensure that they WILL catch up to you, sometime.
You don't detonate on the surface, nor do you detonate a low altitude. You hit it with a penetrator. The deeper you can penetrate, the better. If you can actually SPLIT the huge ass rock, the several largest parts begin moving away from each other, at fairly rapid speeds. If it's so huge you can't split it, you at least launch many tons of debris in one direction at high speed, while the remaining larger body moves in the opposite direction at a much slower speed. And, that much slower speed is precisely the reason you need to detect, then act, MONTHS in advance. Waiting until impact minus 10 days is pretty much the same as not acting at all. A detonation that late might change the point of impact on earth be a few thousand miles, but it can't ensure a miss.
Actually - no. I think it safe to say that most of the world's billionaires inherited huge fortunes. How many billionaires alive today started with nothing, or near to nothing? Steve ain't alive, but he's recent enough that I'll give you one for him. There's the Microsoft schmuck, and the Facebook douche - who else?
Every time we sign a treaty, we lose a little more sovereignty. It's the rest of you suckers who haven't figured out the truth. That is why the US keeps insisting on trade agreements and copyright treaties. My government is busily eroding the sovereignty of all your nations with those idiot treaties. You think WE are going to be suckered into playing that game from the LOSING SIDE?
The rules of the house are "House always wins". Why become a player, when you can write your own damned rules?
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/smallpox
Actually, the effort spanned three centuries.
How about a non-knee-jerk anti-UN comment?
I've believed the UN to be as worthless as teats on a boar hog for almost as long as I've appreciated a nice pair of teats on a female homo sapien. That's almost fifty years of careful consideration for you, rather than a knee-jerk.
Here, in the US, the police helicopter is called in, as often as possible. But, that doesn't end the ground chase at all - the chopper just witnesses the ground chase, and if the occupants bail, help to direct ground forces to the suspects.
The ONLY times I've seen a ground unit break off pursuit, is when he has been left in the dust so badly, that he can't even pretend to be chasing any longer.
Before anyone asks - that generally happens when some damn fool on a motorcycle comes flashing by at speeds over 150. Not that I would ever think about committing such a heinous crime, LMAO!!
Parenthetically, I often wondered what it SOUNDED like when a bike blasted past. Found out one late night in Chicago, when several dozen bikes passed me, well over 150 mph. Then, several more at slightly more sane speeds like 120 or so, then a couple hundred running merely 100 mph or so. My own speed at the time, was 85, and those first bikes blasting past startled the hell out of me!
The thing that no one has mentioned yet, is that cops aren't going to "back off" at all. Each and every cop in the chase is racing for his "opportunity" to make a high profile bust. So - Joe Rookie manages to plant a GPS bullet on or into a suspect's car, and slows down a little. Sergeant Badass is going to come whizzing past Joe, so that he can get the "collar" in his record, and listen to the cheers from his comrades at the local cop bar. Screw that GPS sucker - from Badass' point of view, it looked like a miss anyway.
You are obviously poorly educated, my friend. Let me help you with a basic concept. Any activity which fails to enrich either an American corporation, or the wealthiest 1%, or both, is by default "illegitimate". Your purpose in life is to help to amass more fortunes for those who already have more money than they can ever hope to spend. If you are not fulfilling that purpose, then you are illegitimate.
Check your sarcasm meter - the above is sarcasm because I have posted it. Had a RIAA rep posted it, there would be no sarcasm at all - he would be 100% serious.
Given a choice between the survival of Anonymous, and any of the *AA groups - my thumbs up goes to Anonymous. Any organization that represents corporate interests over citizen's rights will get the thumbs down from me. I'm pretty neutral regarding Anonymous - they do as much or more good than they do bad. None of the *AA groups can claim the same.
The agency you ask about would be the DHS. That agency is itself a Frankenstein's monster. It has swallowed old established agencies, and spawned new agencies, and hopes to swallow more agencies in the future. There is no limit to what can be created under the auspices of "homeland security".
Ehhhh. "people shown to be wrong are more likely to be dedicated to the wrong facts" Yeah, maybe - I've witnessed that in real life. Usually, those people aren't especially intelligent. They may not be real dummies, but they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, either. "it takes someone with an open mind, or little emotional investment, to have their opinion changed" Personally, I have little emotional investment in any set of facts. As a small child, I thought the sun and the moon chased each other across the sky, above a stationary earth. When presented with conflicting facts, I evaluated those facts, and chose which facts to believe. I've always presumed that all intelligent people do the same.
Political leanings are somewhat different. But, I still don't have a lot of emotional attachment to my political views. Maybe some of the very basic opinions, like the basic libertarian idea that government shouldn't be involved in people's every day lives. That, I'm VERY emotionally attached to. But, I'm most certainly not attached to any person, or any particular point in the party's stance. Just, "smaller is better" and "stay out of people's lives". I can accept some socialist ideas, some liberal ideas, some conservative ideas - basically take the best of each, and dismiss the rest.
How do people even GET "emotionally attached" to progressivism, or neoconservatism, or any of the other isms?'
To me, that's just insane. I won't place my trust, or emotional attachment, in any party, platform, or candidate. FFS - I would first have to forget that each party and candidate is looking out for number one, and that once my vote is cast, none of them gives the smallest damn about me, or mine.
Speaking of ethics - what makes it acceptable for the left to stand on the graves of the victims, politicizing their deaths? You people just can't WAIT for the next mass shooting, so that you can dance on the bodies, proclaiming "I told you so!".
Meanwhile - Chicago has the highest death toll by handguns in the WORLD. Imagine that. You won't address those statistics, will you? The strictest gun regulations in the world lead to the highest death toll. Which death toll is higher - that of Chicago, or that of Iraq?
Amazing that some of you think that way. You see a firearm as a penis replacement. I suppose that some gun owners are insecure, and also view their weapons as a macho appendage. Strange stuff happens. But, you. What about you? Why do YOU see a firearm as a penis? What is it about a firearm that makes you think penises? Are you insecure? Do you have penis envy? Are you jealous of anyone who can handle a weapon, without fear? Oh - are you AFRAID of penises?
I wish that we could get some qualified psychoanalysts to figure out what is happening inside a liberal's mind, when he sees penises being carried around in public.
"Elite Anonymous Coward". Wow - what a concept.
More accurately, an idiot is incapable of changing his views. Anyone with a working brain evaluates and considers news and opinions. Well presented views, news, and opinions SHOULD enable a person to change his own views. GP deserves a nod of respect, whether you agree with his opinions or not.
If twenty million of us give government a dollar each to build a road, a road will be built. The value of the road will be about six million, and the remaining fourteen million will be used to attack little brown men on camels with drones.
You poor, clueless fool. A Constitutional Congress is the LAST THING we need right now. If one were convened, who in HELL do you think will actually sit at the table, to author the freaking documents? Do you really want representatives of RIAA to help author, then vote, on a new constitution? Think - that's what God gave you all that gray matter inside your skull for.
What we NEED, is to get rid of all those judges who believe the Constitution to be a "living document". We NEED a lot more real conservatives in judge positions. And, by "conservative", I certainly DO NOT MEAN neoconservatives, corporate lobbyists, or representatives of the military industrial complex. I mean, real, actual conservatives. There are so few of them left today.
Wow - it's clear that YOU aren't partisan! Thank all that is holy for that!
And, with that my sarcasm detector is bitching about the OUTGOING sarcasm!
What we see in that video, is an attempt at damage control. NSA has taken several hard hits over the past months, and they are "reaching out" in an attempt to lull the herds.
Thumbs up.
(of course no mod points, I've already run my mouth on this discussion, LMAO)
Let me guess - you simply ASSume that the entire United States Army will obey orders to begin firing those weapons at their fellow citizens, right? The Navy, Marines, and Air Force the same, right?
Didja ever stop to think that a lot of us who are bitching about gun control are also VETERANS?
Don't worry your little head to much though, because we are still bitching. When we STOP bitching, you will know that the shit has hit the fan.
I was trying hard not to see that coming . . . .