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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
United States
May 25, 2008 10:42am CST
How many known near earth asteroids and comets with the potential to devastingly strike the earth are there?
Yes, it is true!
We live at the whim of chance here on this paradise called earth. A fascinating account of the facts are here.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/asteroids
So, what do you have to say about all this?
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
25 May 08
It kind of makes the whole global warming agenda to be a bit silly.
Of course this does not have the same melodramatic components of saving the climate from man, and it makes the whole carbon trading and cap and trade plans somewhat less meaningful since we must consider that we can be taken out by a falling rock at any time with no way to prevent it.
Therefore it must be assumed that an ignorant people are a happy people, and some of us do know that bad news benefits no one, especially if we can offer them the illusion of doing something to better our interaction with our environment.
So the mainstream media will continue their spoonfed drivel of man made global warming, and this issue will be placed on the back burner with the hope that the sky will never come crashing down.
As they say.... Ignorance is bliss...
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
25 May 08
It certainly is easier to talk about a false threat (global warming) than a real threat (asteroid collision).
As to global warming, check this url for daily updates on solar activity.
http://sidc.oma.be/
Unless solar activity picks up there will be a mini ice. This site, the Beligum Royal Observatory seems to be some kind of internation depository of solar data. I check it daily for signs the sunspots have comeback strong. They have not so far.


