As I'm writing this (13:40 UT) a newly-discovered asteroid, 2009 DD45, is flying past Earth at only 74,800 km (46,478.5 miles or 0.000482 AU) away. That's only about twice the height of a typical geostationary communications satellite, and well inside the moon's orbit. According to Spaceweather.com, the 30- to 40-meter wide space rock is similar in size to the Tunguska impactor of 1908...
The asteroid was only discovered three days ago by the prolific asteroid hunter Robert McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, when the space rock was already within 2,414,016 km (1½ million miles) of Earth and closing fast.
Freakzilla wrote:I think we'd all be better off if one hit Washington DC... while Congress is in session.
Yeah, take out the national government and leave all the little independent states as easy pickin's.
And Limbaugh ... didn't he have a drug addiction or something? Is that all done and over with? Sterling example of an American public figure. And I hear he's the de facto head of the Republican Party?
There are days when I hope we are too stupid to get off this rock in time.
What bugs me, Chig, is the assumption that any supposed aliens would actually be better than us. All this talk about how stupid humanity is and how we're ruining the world...we're all animals after all, and all animals "ruin" their environment without pausing to think.
It's only because we're so successful that nothing else out there is able to keep our disasterous habits in check.
Except God Leto, of course.
In memory of Perach, who suffered and died needlessly.
I wish I could have been with you that one last time.
Freakzilla wrote:That's a scary thought, that we might be the most advanced civilzation out there.
Could very easily be the truth ....
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SandChigger wrote:I'm thinkin' Denver. Hopefully while KJA is nearby.
Or Rome. The hubris of "The Eternal City" just screams for a smack down, no?
Plus I got absolutely no use for the Pope.
Rome's a fantastic city. I say let it land on Red Deer, no one would miss it, apart from the people who live there, but they'd be dead so it wouldn't matter.
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"You and your buddies and that b*tch Mandy are nothing but a gang of lying, socially maladjusted losers." - St Hypatia of Arrakeen.
Hard to say which would be more fun for the locals, being invaded by Canada or Jamaica... tough call. Both have good weed, but we have newfies... hmm, but they have better accents...
One more reason to get off this rock.
Of course, nothing is really done about it unless we get hit. And by then it's already too late.
Perhaps if we just got a city or two leveled by an asteroid, the "clear and present danger" concept would sink in
"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out."
