Dangerous meteors

[Smurf-Herder]

I just saw this on TV, on Wired Science and looked it up.

Los Alamos researchers detect huge meteors while keeping an ear out for clandestine nuclear tests
http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/01-058.shtml

"The April 23 meteor plunged into the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of the northern Baja California region of Mexico. The August 2000 meteor entered the atmosphere off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico."

"The August 2000 meteor had an explosive yield equivalent of 2,000 to 3,000 tons of TNT. The April meteor was much larger, with an equivalent explosive yield of 6,000 to 8,000 or more tons of TNT."

A few minutes difference on the entry time and populated areas on the west coast might have been hit with up to half the force of the Hiroshima blast.

[Cat slave]

Thats scary! :disbelief:

[disrupter]

space is a dangerous place.

But i haven't found a better alternative.

When i find one i will try to give everyone the 'heads up' , k?

[Peregrine]

Oh great..another piece of good news...what next??? I quess we can be thankful they didn't hit populated areas out west.

[asroc]

Strange, these illegal alien space terrorists have not been mentioned on MSNBC or CNN.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Strange, these illegal alien space terrorists have not been mentioned on MSNBC or CNN.


Ya, and they are attacking and everything. Granted, so far, their aim is lousy, but why aren't we going to war against them?

;)

[UserName]

Ya, and they are attacking and everything. Granted, so far, their aim is lousy, but why aren't we going to war against them?

;)

From what I understand, asteroids were dancing in the Kuiper Belt upon hearing the news of this latest attack. We simply have to attack them soon. We must take the fight to the asteroid belt before the asteroid belt brings the fight to earth.

[Moby]

"Meteor Alert: Elevated"

[Cat slave]

Brings to mind the phrase about "casting pearls before swine"....think it was
the bible, or maybe not, whatever!

[Smurf-Herder]

What bothers me is nobody official saying a word about it to the public, until it pops up on Wired Science 6 years after the fact.

[disrupter]

We only go to war against enemies that are virtually helpless against us.

That is why everyone is rushing to get nukes.

We go to war to feel good, not to accomplish anything useful.

[Smurf-Herder]

We only go to war against enemies that are virtually helpless against us.

That is why everyone is rushing to get nukes.

We go to war to feel good, not to accomplish anything useful.

It isn't about you and your obsessions.

It's about big rocks falling from the sky.

[disrupter]

Which go unaddressed because we are too busy kicking over middle east hornet's nests.

Now who has the obsession?

[Cat slave]

It isn't about you and your obsessions.

It's about big rocks falling from the sky.


Yeah, big, HOT rocks that mess up everything!! You would think it would
get more press but everyones too busy with really important things.:taunt:

[Smurf-Herder]

Yeah, big, HOT rocks that mess up everything!! You would think it would
get more press but everyones too busy with really important things.:taunt:

I think we're still safe until 2036, or 2029. In 2029 it will come closer than some communications satellites.

Makeup of Potentially Threatening Asteroid Determined
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071015-apophis-makeup.html

And if it hits a gravitational keyhole in space, at a specific range out, it will be deflected enough to have a high probability of a strike 7 years later.

It was originally estimated to have a yield of over 1400 megatons; but they revised that to only 850 megatons.

[Cat slave]

~~~~~shudder~~~~thats if we get past 2012 when the Mayan calendar
stops or we have a pole shift.:disbelief:

[disrupter]

The pole shift is inevitable, & is long 'overdue'. Weird that it didn't happen many thousands of years ago. Conspiracy? (teasing)
But we have survived it many times. Just be more wary of UV injury & perhaps ready for some radio wave interruption, especially over longer distances. Certainly magnetic compasses will be unusable for centuries until the flip is nearly complete.

[Smurf-Herder]

The pole shift is inevitable, & is long 'overdue'. Weird that it didn't happen many thousands of years ago. Conspiracy? (teasing)
But we have survived it many times. Just be more wary of UV injury & perhaps ready for some radio wave interruption, especially over longer distances. Certainly magnetic compasses will be unusable for centuries until the flip is nearly complete.


Look up lost honeybees .... but not just the the ones in the US.

The poles of the magnetic field weaken and split during a reversal.

And it may not take centuries. But it'll be bad enough.


BTW, I'm thinking there's a good chance we have a flip in 2012. We'll be crossing the galactic meridean, along with some kind of alignment.

Hey, the Sun flipped in 2001; and it's going back in 2012.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm

[Tickler]

I think we're still safe until 2036, or 2029. In 2029 it will come closer than some communications satellites.

Well we're still due for a computer meltdown around 2038 when the seconds fields(hardware & software) will reset.:banghead: Looks like it will be a really bad decade.

In the year 2038 the built-in variable used to keep time in Unix and similar operating systems will overflow. The maximum number of seconds that the Unix time variable can count is 2,147,483,647. This number of seconds will be reached on 19 January 2038 at 03:14:07.

[Cat slave]

The pole shift is inevitable, & is long 'overdue'. Weird that it didn't happen many thousands of years ago. Conspiracy? (teasing)
But we have survived it many times. Just be more wary of UV injury & perhaps ready for some radio wave interruption, especially over longer distances. Certainly magnetic compasses will be unusable for centuries until the flip is nearly complete.

Uh, I think it will be just a little more dramatic than that!

[disrupter]

They might have daily radiation reports. I think it will be spotty. mini-north & mini-south poles will be slobbered all over the globe for i think a century.

There might be radiation counts along with the local weather reports. On bad days if you go out you will need to cover up. Obviously our species has survived this many times. Making it hard to believe it will be all that major.

[Smurf-Herder]

They might have daily radiation reports. I think it will be spotty. mini-north & mini-south poles will be slobbered all over the globe for i think a century.

There might be radiation counts along with the local weather reports. On bad days if you go out you will need to cover up. Obviously our species has survived this many times. Making it hard to believe it will be all that major.


I believe it will seriously effect wildlife; and weather patterns.

[disrupter]

it is certainly negligible compared to global warming, where we are looking at extinction.

And it IS beyond our control & NOT caused by our actions.

[Smurf-Herder]

it is certainly negligible compared to global warming, where we are looking at extinction.

And it IS beyond our control & NOT caused by our actions.

A magnetic reversal is far more serious than the average temperature slowly going back to what it was during the Medeaval Warming; and both are out of our control. Ultraviolet rays killing crops and wildlife is a greater threat to extinction than it getting a couple degrees warmer.

[disrupter]

The mass extinction 250 million years ago was caused by global warming.

I rest my case.

[Smurf-Herder]

The mass extinction 250 million years ago was caused by global warming.

I rest my case.

We went through this before. The "warming" was caused by intense volcanic activity, triggered by a large meteor impact in the Antarctic. Either way, it's not the same trigger for the warming we're going through now. So the present warming will not result in mass extinctions.