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  • gt40
    This space for rent
    • Sep 1999
    • 3973

    #1

    Earth almost put on impact alert.

    Live each day to the fullest. you never know when something like this WILL happen.
    BBC, News, BBC News, news online, world, uk, international, foreign, british, online, service
    Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!
  • rylan
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 2347

    #2
    I think the near-earth-object tracking organization needs more people and funding. This was only cought a 36 hours before potential impact.

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    • Jon P. Inghram
      Super MURCer
      • Oct 1999
      • 3878

      #3
      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.

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      • gt40
        This space for rent
        • Sep 1999
        • 3973

        #4
        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.
        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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        • High_Jumbllama
          Super MURCer
          • Dec 1999
          • 4522

          #5
          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.

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          • spadnos
            MURCer
            • Jun 2002
            • 859

            #6
            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

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            • Gurm
              MS Fanboy
              • Aug 1999
              • 11460

              #7
              ROFL.

              They're both "das bomb!"

              - Gurm
              The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

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              If only life were as easy as you
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              • GT98
                FanBoy
                • Aug 1999
                • 4408

                #8
                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?
                Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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                • az
                  Moderator
                  • Feb 2001
                  • 9336

                  #9
                  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
                  There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                  • Corran Horn
                    mini MURCer
                    • May 2002
                    • 70

                    #10
                    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.

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                    • The PIT
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 11901

                      #11
                      Well I suppose if it crashed into the middle east it would be the hand of Allah.
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                      • gt40
                        This space for rent
                        • Sep 1999
                        • 3973

                        #12
                        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?
                        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                        • DukeP
                          Super MURCer
                          • Nov 1999
                          • 1830

                          #13
                          Nope.


                          ~~DukeP~~

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                          • Jon P. Inghram
                            Super MURCer
                            • Oct 1999
                            • 3878

                            #14
                            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.

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                            • Podfrog
                              MURCer
                              • Oct 2003
                              • 99

                              #15
                              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.
                              "both boredom and hysteria are the enemies of reason." -cliff geertz

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