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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/15/2005 : 07:09:55
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There's a big one a'comin' at ya!
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A giant asteroid the size of three football pitches will make the closest flyby of Earth in recorded history for an object of its size, scientists said yesterday.
It will pass between the Earth and the Moon and will even come closer than the orbit of many telecommunications satellites, although astronomers insisted that there was little chance of a collision with the massive rock.
I'd like to see that.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/15/2005 : 10:20:24 [Permalink]
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| Well you can do just that by visiting the UK or nearby there on the 13th of April 2029, it should be visible to the eye provided conditions are right. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2005 : 11:21:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Well you can do just that by visiting the UK or nearby there on the 13th of April 2029, it should be visible to the eye provided conditions are right.
In 2029, I would be 94 years old and doubtless demented enough not to give a rats ass about any rock not thrown at me by neighborhood brats. Assuming I make it that long, which, if my history is anything to go by, is unlikely.
Would still like to re-visit the bawds at Picadilly Circus UK, though.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 12:21:53 [Permalink]
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Nah by that time we'll have Neo-Wahabinauts or joke spawned Super Christian Landoverists trying to redirect the asteroid to hit the earth to bring about the "promised" land.
Oh and Im sure they will have a GrandpaNet for safe viewing from MOONursing Facility #9. (Gotta have some place to store the 3-4 billion 65+ers) |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 02/16/2005 : 00:27:59 [Permalink]
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I'm confident that the "near miss" is just some government cover-up of the impending Armageddon.
(Which will be almost as unpleasant as watching the movie with the same name.)
If you argue otherwise, you are probably in on it!
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Ricky
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