Colossal cataclysmic catastrophic collision coverup collusion collapses

Is that what caused the earthquakes? Scary...now I won't sleep tonight! Thanks!

I'll start with a quote from the movie "Armagedon"... "Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-asss sky" Now, the govcernment isn't the only one watching the sky for these things, there are tons of amatrure astronomers doing this as well, I know one from another forum I hang out in from time to time, a great astronomy forum filled with tons of amature astronomers and proffessionals as well, even some NASA folks. The bottom line is there is a lot of stuff floating around out there. Even just taking in to account the solar system alone, it is in fact a "big asss sky". An asteroid the size of the one that exploded over Indonesia would not even be visible to the naked eye from earth and even with a fairly powerfull telescope, would be tricky to locate if you weren't looking at the exact right point in near earth space at exactly the right time. And these things don't exactly sit still either, stuff comes and goes all the time out there. All we can do is keep watching as much as we can and hope we are lucky enough t spot as many as we can. I once heard an astro-physicist say, about asteroids striking earth, that we will probably not see the one that "gets us" comming and that in fact our first indication that we have been hit will prbably be the ground shaking under our feet and the firestorm on the horizon. Fortuneatly enough we have a very effective built in defense, our atmosphere. And once again, it did it's job very well. This is the fate 99% of objects entering our atmosphere meet with, they burn up and sometimes explode very high up, safely out of reach of our cities. Look at the moon, or mercury, where there is really no atmosphere to speak of, the craters tell a story of a very violent shooting gallery, we live in. Put it in perspective, signifigant actual meteorite strikes are comparatively rare here on earth.

I think we are too busy fighting amongst ourselves to notice little things like an earth shaking event! Sad but true.

I didn't know that. Neither have I read it in the news. Thanks for the information. I will check the link. I believe that an asteroid that size will burn upon entry into the earth's atmosphere. Had it been bigger, the effect would have been cataclysmic. cheers!

Are they sure that asteroid was not a result of man made global warming? Where is Al Gore when they need him... think of the possibilities... Earth will be destroyed because of man made asteroids.... I say we need to energize the Star Wars Program to defend against these asteroids, and we also need to invade whoever is shooting these things at us. We could call it War of the Worlds II...

Where were all the astonomers? Where were the guys at monitoring stations? You can't tell me there aren't people watching for things in the atmosphere-bombs, meteors, foreign aircraft, etc. How scary for those people! And how scary that nobody is watching our skies.