| Subject: You've seen "Deep Impact" one too many times. |
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James
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Date Posted: 08:53:18 09/04/00 Mon
In reply to:
avalanche
's message, "Cut and Paste as you choose to make a moot point." on 02:36:53 09/03/00 Sun
> actually no it isn't. chinese wouldn't dare fire a
> missile at anyone out of fear for UN reprisals. an
> asteroid has no such concerns. chinese missiles are
> kept in check by politics and common sense. but there
> are tens, hundreds of earth-orbit crossing asteroids
> out there, and we've only mapped a small percentage of
> that, in actual truth, if an asteroid would impact
> earth, we might not know about it until an hour before
> impact. and when a sufficiently sized asteroid would
> impact earth, that would be it. the end of all
> advanced life. it would create a shockwave that would
> trigger the biggests floods, volcanic eruptions, and
> earthquakes this planet has ever seen, it would
> destroy a huge land area, even if it impacted in the
> ocean, it's shockwave would travel around the globe,
> and it would throw up so much dust and debris up into
> the atmosphere that the sun would be completely
> blocked out for centuries, destroying fotosynthesis,
> and quickly killing all lifeforms except maybe
> bacteria. whilst a missile from china might do quite a
> bit of damage and cause many lives to be lost, a "rock
> from space" would destroy all life as we know it.
> and right now, it's far more likely that that rock
> from space would impact than that missile from china.
> in the 20th century alone there were 2 relatively
> large asteroid impacts, in the amazon and in tunguska,
> the tunguska one was estimated to be only 10 metres in
> diametre, yet it completely destroyed an area of over
> 100 kilometres in diametre, and there is a huge amount
> of earth-crossing asteroids that are 5KM+ in diametre.
> Very recently, we discovered an asteroid of a few KM's
> in diametre that missed earth by 0.13 AU (astronomical
> unit), that is about the thickness of a hair in
> astronomical terms.
> we as a planet must first and foremost defend
> ourselves from the asteroid threath, it is the biggest
> threath to humanity.
The biggest threat to humanity is humanity. Not all this Deep Impact and Armaeddon movie crap. There isn't going to be an Asteroid Impact on the earth that will wipe us out. At least not until Jesus returns and judges all you evil people then he might blow up the earth with a comet or two just to show you that he's the man!
I agree with Terry, the Chinese are a bigger threat to America than anything else...well besides Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
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