| Subject: Re: You've seen "Deep Impact" one too many times. |
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Date Posted: 01:15:24 09/05/00 Tue
In reply to:
Terry
's message, "Re: You've seen "Deep Impact" one too many times." on 10:18:31 09/04/00 Mon
> Well the whole .013 AU's is a hair in astronomical
> terms... well 5 million miles is smaller than a pubic
> hair in astrinomical terms. Considering earth could
> fit into Jupiters red spot over 3 times....
>
> Research may need to be done on astroids in space. As
> does research for SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial
> Intellegence) but right now Americas main priority is
> a missle defense system - or should be.
i don't really give a damn about 'america's main priority'
Saddam
> Hussien... Aparently the UN didnt keep him in check
> until AFTER he invaded kuiwait.
ofcourse not, there was no cause whatsoever, you can't just bomb the shit out of a country because you have a "hunch" that they are going to invade someone else.
It didnt stop him from
> using loads of Chemical weapons against IRan in the
> IRAQ/IRAN 8 year war in the late 70's early 80's. It
> didnt stop Hitler until AFTER he took over most of
> Europe.
dude, the UN didn't even exist until after ww2.
Wasnt really a strong UN back then but the
> people that should have kept him "in check" didnt. So
> who is to say that China will be kept in check?
> Nothing. If they want Tiawan, they will take it. And
> if that means taking out a few American ships and
> bases with a nuke rocket, not talking ICBM here,
> talking about a small warhead, they will probley do
> it. Then when we go to war with them, they may ICBM
> our country. I would rather take care of the problem
> that we can see and know about then worry about
> something we have no clue about. We should guard our
> back door, but worry about where the troops are
> massed. (And dont try the whole "the flank is your
> weakness" thing because we are talking about
> astroids... something uncontrollable.
>
we have more of a clue about asteroids then about missile threaths you know. the problem with the asteroids is that we don't have as much a clue as we want, right now, if an asteroid would hit us, we might not know until an hour in advance, and that does not give us enough time to avoid collision. a missile impact might at best destroy a city, an asteroid impact might at WORST destroy a city. at best, the planet.
> And besides... what are we going to do about space
> rocks? We cant put a laser in space to shoot them down
> because of the very UN you speak of. Their laws
> prohibiting weapons in space invclude ALL weapons,
> whether for world defense or world domination. So
> before we can do ANYTHING, your UN needs to unseat
> their rectal cranial inversion and fix something.
a laser wouldn't be effective against an asteroid anyway, contrary to what you might believe, but lasers really aren't effective as weapons (technically, they can't even BE called weapons), a simple nuclear blast near (not on) the asteroid when it's still relatively far away from earth would change it's trajectory enough so that it would miss the earth completely, the UN would naturally be willing to make an exception for space weapons were there to be an asteroid threath.
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