Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Larry Lyons
Still that's a lot of empty space that it could go through. Chances are as the time gets closer, we'll have much better estimates of its path and how to get rid of it. >All it has to do is hit any one of the 40,000 satellites orbiting the planet >and its trajectory would change so that on its ne

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Skinner
Billy Cox wrote: > Leave it to a 13 year-old kid to not know that a bug hitting a car > windshield has zero effect on the car's trajectory. Now it does not have zero effect. I am sure there is a calculable mathematical effect if one cares to deal with enough precision. Of course whether the e

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Bruce Sorge
You mean you actually look things up before spreading sensationalist crap? You dick! LOL Jim Davis wrote: > > No...it's a much better story when the school boy proves NASA wrong. I > think I'll continue to believe that one. > > I think I'll bring it up condescendingly whenever I need a good non

RE: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Billy Cox
*more* likely to hit the earth and not *less* likely. Is it surprising that Germany lost the race to develop the atomic bomb? -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:13 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chan

RE: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:13 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth > > > Crap, guess I better get my affairs in order. The world is

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Greg Morphis
I can see Bart Simpson's bully friend in the background pointing at this German boy and laughing "HaHa" On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whew! I guess I can take my worldly possessions off of Craig's List now. > Heh. > > Bruce > > > > James Smith wrote:

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Bruce Sorge
Whew! I guess I can take my worldly possessions off of Craig's List now. Heh. Bruce James Smith wrote: > > Or not... > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/esa_german_schoolboy_apophis_denial/ > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread James Smith
> Crap, guess I better get my affairs in order. The world is coming to an > end. :-) Or not... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/esa_german_schoolboy_apophis_denial/ -- Jay ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Bruce Sorge
Crap, guess I better get my affairs in order. The world is coming to an end. :-) Vivec wrote: > All it has to do is hit any one of the 40,000 satellites orbiting the planet > and its trajectory would change so that on its next pass it will definitely > hit. > > Satellites orbit at 35,000 KM in th

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Casey Dougall
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Satellites orbit at 35,000 KM in the earths orbit. This Asteroid is going > to > pass at 32,000 KM.It is due to pass in 2029, and then in 2036 after that. > Does state farm offer Satellite Collision insurance? We should take

Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth

2008-04-16 Thread Loathe
I saw something about that this morning. Funny thing, NASA originally had it listed at 1:45,000 chance, but a 13 year old German kid checked their math and they screwed it up. Vivec wrote: > All it has to do is hit any one of the 40,000 satellites orbiting the planet > and its trajectory would c