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Old 11-08-2011, 06:25 PM
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It seems we are having a little asteroid pass within 210000 miles of us tonight.Closer than the moon.
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I got my WWII helmet and a big piller ready just in case. If the govt figgers miles like they figger some other stuff, I ain't takin' no chances.

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If NASA forgot to carry the two or some such in their calculations, the impact will apparently mimic that of a 60 megaton bomb. Thus if it does somehow hit, it won't be the end of the world, but be a very bad day for someone somewhere.
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It's the one that you don't see (hear) that gets you.
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Got a question: if this thing was going to hit somewhere on Earth, and YOU had to pick the exact place it would impact (this is fiction - so it's OK and we know no innocents will be hurt), where would YOU have the asteroid hit?

I'm thinking of a particular Fortune 500 facility located in Bedminster, NJ.

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Old 11-08-2011, 10:42 PM
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I use Preparation H for my asteroids....
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Got a question: if this thing was going to hit somewhere on Earth, and YOU had to pick the exact place it would impact (this is fiction - so it's OK and we know no innocents will be hurt), where would YOU have the asteroid hit?

I'm thinking of a particular Fortune 500 facility located in Bedminster, NJ.

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Well, ANYWHERE would be bad because the effects would be World-Wide. Dust blocking out the sun, crops not being able to grow for years, and complete disintigration of anything within hundreds of miles of the impact point.

But "on the other side of the Globe" would be my best answer. The last species-killing impact hit within a good day's drive of me at Chixilub and killed off the dinosaurs. It's somebody else's turn to take the next one.
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I would think that Akron or Detroit would be improved by the impact?
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Iran's "peaceful purposes" nuclear facility!
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Did anybody else here see that Meteor, well it ended up being a Meteorite shortly after I / we seen it, back around 1967?
I had to be 9 at the time since it was in the summer.......

A bunch of us neighbor kids were playing on the corner when someone shouted "look up!" I remember looking up and seeing a big, flaming rock flying across the sky heading northwest. When I say flaming I mean exactly that since the fire looked just like the flames of a campfire and not just some yellow streak across the sky. I could'nt say how high it was when I seen it but do know that I could clearly see some of the surface detail on that big rock, probably thanks to the illumination provided by the flames. Its my understanding that it hit the earth somewhere up in Canada, possibly Saskatchewan?

I remember all of us kids immediately running home to tell our parents what we had just seen.
I can't remember what I said to my parents but I'm sure it had a chicken little theme going on......
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