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The Rat
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 Posted - 02/16/2014 : 05:56:42
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You won't believe some of the ignorance of basic knowledge that is displayed in this thread I plucked from NASA's Google+ account. People actually seem worried that crashing an asteroid into the Moon will destroy it. They seem to miss the fact that it's covered in craters. 
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
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On fire for Christ
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Norway
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 06:48:47 [Permalink]
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The Rat
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Canada
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 06:56:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
depends on the size of the asteroid.
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If it was big enough to destroy the Moon, it would be too big to deflect into it in the first place. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
| Edited by - The Rat on 02/16/2014 07:39:12 |
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On fire for Christ
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Norway
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 07:01:50 [Permalink]
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| it might be big enough to cause debris which could then hit the Earth |
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The Rat
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 07:41:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
it might be big enough to cause debris which could then hit the Earth
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Which has happened before. There are plenty of meteorites of lunar origin. But few survive passage through Earth's atmosphere. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
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On fire for Christ
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Norway
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 07:44:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
But few survive passage through Earth's atmosphere.
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if one of those few hit your house, you might have a change of heart.
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The Rat
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Canada
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 10:50:54 [Permalink]
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Why don't you comment on that page? You would fit right in.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
| Edited by - The Rat on 02/16/2014 10:51:16 |
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On fire for Christ
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Posted - 02/16/2014 : 17:45:30 [Permalink]
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| Good answer. Totally rebuffed me. |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 02/18/2014 : 08:34:55 [Permalink]
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Yeah, it's a losing battle it seems... The media does not help. I read an article that said... '25% don't know the Earth revolves around the Sun!'
Of course it revolves around it's axis and orbits the sun, but whoever said the details were important to science.
Of course I didnt bother to tell them that their own stupid survey is partly to blame. If perhaps you would word the questions correctly the ignorance might wane a bit. |
"...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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Extremely bad astronomy
