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Terror Attack on 6/11 NYC??? (pg. 4)
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | Originally posted by sandstorm03
if its true, you can be the 2nd person to tell me, i told you so.
you know that we could be struck by an asteroid, and we wouldn't even know it till we saw a big flash of light, and felt the impact. Now that is something to think bout every day, and there isnt we can do about it. |
Didn't you ever watch the movie Amageddon???:rolleyes: :haha: |
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| Busy Child |
| yea we would have ample amount of warning if an asteroid was gonna hit us. :wtf: :haha: :crazy: :nervous: |
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| sandstorm03 |
Don't you know that we only know about "60%" of space? more like 30% meaning we dont have a clue about the other "40%", and when something is comming at 50,000 miles per hour its kinda hard to pick it up. Theoretically if a asteroid was gonna hit antartica we would never know. Especially if it did not reflect light.
we blew up the wtc, anyway... it had nothing at all to do with osama... |
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| BitchBoyNYC |
| quote: | Originally posted by sandstorm03
we blew up the wtc, anyway... it had nothing at all to do with osama... |
You're kidding, right? Tell me you don't mean this. |
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| sandstorm03 |
Who is searching for NEOs?
Several teams of astronomers worldwide are surveying the sky with electronic cameras to find NEOs, but the total effort involves fewer than 100 people. The most productive NEO survey is the LINEAR search program of the MIT Lincoln Lab, carried out in New Mexico with US Air Force and NASA support. The LINEAR team, which operates two search telescopes with one-meter aperture, discovered more NEOs in 1999 and 2000 than all other searches combined. Other active survey groups include the NEAT search program in Hawaii, carried out jointly by the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the US Air Force; the Spacewatch survey at the University of Arizona, funded by NASA and a variety of private grants, the LONEOS survey at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona, supported by NASA grants, and the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson Arizona, also supported by NASA. Other searches in the US, France, Japan and China also contribute to discovery of NEOs, while additional astronomers (many of them amateur astronomers) follow up the discoveries with supporting observations.
Are any NEOs predicted to hit the Earth?
As of the end of 2001, astronomers had discovered more than half of the larger Near Earth Asteroids (diameter greater than 1 km). None of the known asteroids is a threat, but we have no way of predicting the next impact from an unknown object.
What is the risk of impacts?
We don’t know when the next NEO impact will take place, but we can calculate the odds. Statistically, the greatest danger is from an NEO with about 1 million megatons energy (roughly 2 km in diameter). On average, one of these collides with the Earth once or twice per million years, producing a global catastrophe that would kill a substantial (but unknown) fraction of the Earth’s human population. Reduced to personal terms, this means that you have about one chance in 20,000 of dying as a result of a collision. Such statistics are interesting, but they don’t tell you, of course, when the next catastrophic impact will take place—next year or a million years from now.
How much warning will we have?
With at least half of even the larger NEOs remaining undiscovered, the most likely warning today would be zero -- -- the first indication of a collision would be the flash of light and the shaking of the ground as it hit. In contrast, if the current surveys actually discover a NEO on a collision course, we would expect many decades of warning. Any NEO that is going to hit the Earth will swing near our planet many times before it hits, and it should be discovered by comprehensive sky searches. This is the purpose of the Spaceguard Survey. In almost all cases, we will either have a long lead time or none at all.
Is there a problem with blind spots in the Spaceguard Survey?
Some press reports express concern that an asteroid could hit the Earth coming out of a "blind spot", such as the daylight sky or high southern latitudes where no Spaceguard telescopes are looking. Some worry that if an asteroid is found after its closest approach to Earth, this is an indication that the system is not working. These concerns seem to be based on the misconception that we are trying to detect asteroids as they approach the Earth on their final plunge toward impact. In fact, any such last-minute warning system is impractical as well as unproductive. In this survey, it makes no difference if a NEA is discovered on approach or departure from the vicinity of the Earth. The important thing is that it is discovered and its orbit determined. The only effect of blind spots, whether they be due to sunlight or moonlight or bad weather or lack of a southern hemisphere survey telescope, is to slow down the completion of the NEA catalog. Objects in blind spots will be picked up later, usually within a few years, in a more favorable geometry.
duck and cover bitch |
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| sandstorm03 |
| quote: | | You're kidding, right? Tell me you don't mean this. |
osama is a cia op, used to get rid of ussr in afghanistan, bush is friends with osamas family for years...
can you say wag the dog? |
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| BitchBoyNYC |
| quote: | Originally posted by sandstorm03
osama is a cia op, used to get rid of ussr in afghanistan, bush is friends with osamas family for years...
can you say wag the dog? |
interesting. |
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| sandstorm03 |
never knew that?:rolleyes: , there are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many holes and lies in the govn'ts stories its not even funny any more.
for example nuclear missles, and bio weapons in iraq
there are none, and never were |
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| BitchBoyNYC |
| knew about Bush being friends with Osama family. Don't remember about Osama being a CIA op to remove USSR from Afghanastan. |
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| sandstorm03 |
:D , we also gave weapons to iraq :toothless
i wouldnt even call it a war. If there was any chance of real fighting i would guarentee the media coverage would be much different. And not just sitting watching buildings blow up. |
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| sandstorm03 |
Published: June 9, 2004 Author: CHARLES J. HANLEY
NEW YORK - The "dirty bomb" allegedly planned by terror suspect Jose Padilla would have been a dud, not the radiological threat portrayed last week by federal authorities, scientists say.
At a June 1 news conference, the Justice Department (news - web sites) said the alleged al-Qaida associate hoped to attack Americans by detonating "uranium wrapped with explosives" in order to spread radioactivity.
But uranium's extremely low radioactivity is harmless compared with high-radiation materials — such as cesium and cobalt isotopes used in medicine and industry that experts see as potential dirty bomb fuels.
"I used a 20-pound brick of uranium as a doorstop in my office," American nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, of King's College in London, said to illustrate the point.
Zimmerman, co-author of an expert analysis of dirty bombs for the U.S. National Defense University, said last week's government announcement was "extremely disturbing — because you cannot make a radiological dispersal device with uranium. There is just no significant radiation hazard." |
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| trunks1022 |
| quote: | Originally posted by BitchBoyNYC
knew about Bush being friends with Osama family. Don't remember about Osama being a CIA op to remove USSR from Afghanastan. |
al-qaeda comes from the remnants of the group of afghan rebels that removed the soviets from afghanistan. |
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