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Demeter

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24. There are days when I want that baby to hit Earth

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sat Jun 8, 2013, 09:53 PM

Jun 2013

Right in DC. Where the NSA, CIA, WH and Congress are destroying America.

Then perhaps Wall St and its subdivisions.

Then perhaps we could rebuild that shining city on the hill which Reagan tore down, and his successors have bombed into submission.

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Asteroid the size of a small truck buzzes Earth: NASA [View all] Bosonic Jun 2013 OP

I thought I was being mooned ... zbdent Jun 2013 #1

Exclusive photo of truck-like ASSteroid Berlum Jun 2013 #2

LOL! Politicalboi Jun 2013 #18

Whoops. There goes another one! In_The_Wind Jun 2013 #3

have there always been this many iamthebandfanman Jun 2013 #4

Yup. Selection bias. longship Jun 2013 #6

Just curious if you know off the top of your head gvstn Jun 2013 #8

Not that I know of. longship Jun 2013 #9

Thanks for the B612 link...... Capt.Rocky300 Jun 2013 #11

Thank you! gvstn Jun 2013 #12

Let me clarify for you. longship Jun 2013 #14

Wouldn't L1 suffer from almost exactly the same problems as Earth? muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #20

The advantages of L1 wouldn't be useful here I admit. longship Jun 2013 #21

Worse than that... eggplant Jun 2013 #22

We can see more of them, but they're still staggeringly vast in number Posteritatis Jun 2013 #17

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is going to be used for asteroid search among other things Fumesucker Jun 2013 #23

I bet they bought those cigarettes in Politicalboi Jun 2013 #19

I must be getting old my math is not too good.... 4bucksagallon Jun 2013 #5

Cringeworthy isn't it. nt longship Jun 2013 #7

Define "closeness" to be the reciprocal of "distance". Nye Bevan Jun 2013 #13

There's a secret constitutional amendment requiring science news to word things poorly, I think (nt) Posteritatis Jun 2013 #16

That is what my H.S. English teacher would have labeled "awkward construction." yellowcanine Jun 2013 #26

"asteroid the size of a small truck" Come on NASA, what kind of truck? Compact pickup, half ton, yellowcanine Jun 2013 #10

10 metres wide; if it's roughly spherical, it weighs about 1000 tons muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #15

If that is the case, how is that a "small truck"? yellowcanine Jun 2013 #25

I guess they saw ten metres, and thought "what is 10 metres long?" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #27

Of course that is kind of like a 2 yr old thinking a tall skinny glass holds more than a short yellowcanine Jun 2013 #28

Size of a truck, not weight of a truck. Well even that's not accurate but closer to your idea ;) MillennialDem Jun 2013 #29

"Length of a small truck" is about the only way it would have been accurate. yellowcanine Jun 2013 #31

Yeah I know :( but what is there spherical 10m? Medium sized house was probably the most MillennialDem Jun 2013 #33

There are days when I want that baby to hit Earth Demeter Jun 2013 #24

Small Pizza Truck vs. a Large Pizza Truck liberal N proud Jun 2013 #30

But is it the pizza which is small or the truck carrying the pizza? yellowcanine Jun 2013 #32