Earth almost put on impact alert.

[gt40]

Live each day to the fullest. you never know when something like this WILL happen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3517319.stm

[rylan]

I think the near-earth-object tracking organization needs more people and funding. This was only cought a 36 hours before potential impact.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Personally I think a distributed computing program similar to SETI@Home but using photographs and/or radar to search for extremely faint objects would be astronomicly (pardon the pun ) more useful than looking for alien signals.

[gt40]

I agree, we need a more concerted effort to keep an eye on events in our vecinity.
How can you find objects thousands of light years away, and miss the one that almost slammed into the end of your telescope.

[High_Jumbllama]

Well, the objects we are looking at far away are many, many times bigger and when we do find them, we are usually looking at a very limited section of sky.

[spadnos]

Potentially, the loss of life could have been much worse than 11 September.

Yeah - those astronomical objects are really nasty - even worse than Al-Qaeda.

Why is it that everything has to be related to terrorist activity???

- Steve

[Gurm]

ROFL.

They're both "das bomb!"

- Gurm

[GT98]

Originally posted by spadnos
Yeah - those astronomical objects are really nasty - even worse than Al-Qaeda.

Why is it that everything has to be related to terrorist activity???

- Steve

Because the Press hypes it up?

[az]

Originally posted by spadnos
Yeah - those astronomical objects are really nasty - even worse than Al-Qaeda.

Why is it that everything has to be related to terrorist activity???

- Steve

You know, I was going to post this, but I feared some people would be all over me. Glad that you have

AZ

[Corran Horn]

Originally posted by gt40
I agree, we need a more concerted effort to keep an eye on events in our vecinity.

To what end? Personally, I'd rather have an asteroid impact be a BLAMMO and we're gone type deal than a week (or more) of panic and chaos.

[The PIT]

Well I suppose if it crashed into the middle east it would be the hand of Allah.

[gt40]

Originally posted by Corran Horn
To what end? Personally, I'd rather have an asteroid impact be a BLAMMO and we're gone type deal than a week (or more) of panic and chaos.

Isn't there something you've always wanted to do before you died that you just needed the right motivator to finally have the guts to actually do it?

[DukeP]

Nope.


~~DukeP~~

[Jon P. Inghram]

Isn't there something you've always wanted to do before you died that you just needed the right motivator to finally have the guts to actually do it?

Yep, move to a better location so I can get a better view of the impact.

[Podfrog]

Isn't there something you've always wanted to do before you died that you just needed the right motivator to finally have the guts to actually do it?

buying a revolver to shoot myself, but the asteroid would take care of that methinks.