Could congress get their act together? With a real threat

Could congress get their act together? with a real threat

Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor
damage.

It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid
shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human
life ending event.....

On Mar 24, 11:45*am, bob haller wrote:
Could congress get their act together? with a real threat

Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor
damage.

It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid
shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human
life ending event.....

Not a chance in hell, because they're way too busy screwing one
another whenever they isn't screwing us.

On 25/03/2013 5:45 AM, bob haller wrote:
Could congress get their act together? with a real threat

Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor
damage.

It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid
shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human
life ending event.....


In the event of a definite prediction of a hit by such an object in
2020, I'd say that politicians generally would find the will to act.

In practice, it would take time to pin down the orbit of a previously
undetected object, and the likely initial prediction for 2020 would be
"perhaps". If one hypothesises that in reality the object will hit in
2020, the question then becomes one of how long it takes before the
astromers have pinned that down with sufficient certainty that congress
will not be able to take a wait-and-see approach. The concern is
obviously that by the time the certainty crosses the threshold for
congressional action, it will then be too late.

As an aside, it's going to be a long time before we can deal with
extinction-sized objects that come barrelling in from the Oort cloud,
having never previously been seen.

Sylvia.

In article ,
Sylvia Else wrote:

On 25/03/2013 5:45 AM, bob haller wrote:
Could congress get their act together? with a real threat

Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor
damage.

It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid
shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human
life ending event.....


In the event of a definite prediction of a hit by such an object in
2020, I'd say that politicians generally would find the will to act.

In practice, it would take time to pin down the orbit of a previously
undetected object, and the likely initial prediction for 2020 would be
"perhaps". If one hypothesises that in reality the object will hit in
2020, the question then becomes one of how long it takes before the
astromers have pinned that down with sufficient certainty that congress
will not be able to take a wait-and-see approach. The concern is
obviously that by the time the certainty crosses the threshold for
congressional action, it will then be too late.

As an aside, it's going to be a long time before we can deal with
extinction-sized objects that come barrelling in from the Oort cloud,
having never previously been seen.

Sylvia.

The Oort Cloud isn't the source of them -- they are artifacts of the
forces that created the Earth/Moon System and lie in somewhat more
elliptical orbits than that of the Earth/Moon. The problem is that their
orbital planes intersect ours and may, at some time, result in a
collision.

On Sunday, March 24, 2013 1:56:44 PM UTC-7, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote:



Could congress get their act together? with a real threat



Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor

damage.



It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid

shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human

life ending event.....



No, your "the sky is falling" wails aren't going to do any more than

motivate laughter.



We're not laughing with you, Bobbert. We're laughing AT you.



--

"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is

only stupid."

-- Heinrich Heine

But it was McCall that minimized the Japanese nuclear mess
Rather stupid on his part. Of course, McC deleted his
grand universal insights on the topic, lol.

someday time will delete us all ....................Trig

On Mar 25, 3:14*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Nun Giver wrote:

But it was McCall that minimized the Japanese nuclear mess
Rather stupid on his part. Of course, McC deleted his
grand universal insights on the topic, lol.

You might want to look at the outcome. *It's something like a 0.5%
spike in some cancers. *Hardly "the sky is falling" at all.

Poor, pathetic nymskulls. *You never get anything right.

--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
*territory."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --G. Behn

japan came very close to being forcibly evacuated, and the risk is
still there........

On Monday, March 25, 2013 12:14:48 AM UTC-7, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Nun Giver wrote:





But it was McCall that minimized the Japanese nuclear mess

Rather stupid on his part. Of course, McC deleted his

grand universal insights on the topic, lol.





You might want to look at the outcome. It's something like a 0.5%

spike in some cancers. Hardly "the sky is falling" at all.



Poor, pathetic nymskulls. You never get anything right.



--

"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar

territory."

--G. Behn

No matter the 12 mile/20 kilometer exclusion zone.
That were you spend all your remaining days.

Give it time..................Trig

On 25/03/2013 1:29 PM, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ,
Sylvia Else wrote:

On 25/03/2013 5:45 AM, bob haller wrote:
Could congress get their act together? with a real threat

Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor
damage.

It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid
shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human
life ending event.....


In the event of a definite prediction of a hit by such an object in
2020, I'd say that politicians generally would find the will to act.

In practice, it would take time to pin down the orbit of a previously
undetected object, and the likely initial prediction for 2020 would be
"perhaps". If one hypothesises that in reality the object will hit in
2020, the question then becomes one of how long it takes before the
astromers have pinned that down with sufficient certainty that congress
will not be able to take a wait-and-see approach. The concern is
obviously that by the time the certainty crosses the threshold for
congressional action, it will then be too late.

As an aside, it's going to be a long time before we can deal with
extinction-sized objects that come barrelling in from the Oort cloud,
having never previously been seen.

Sylvia.

The Oort Cloud isn't the source of them -- they are artifacts of the
forces that created the Earth/Moon System and lie in somewhat more
elliptical orbits than that of the Earth/Moon. The problem is that their
orbital planes intersect ours and may, at some time, result in a
collision.


The near Earth objects obviously don't come in from the Oort cloud, but
that doesn't mean that a destructive object can't.

Sylvia.

On Mar 25, 4:22*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Nun Giver wrote:

No matter the 12 mile/20 kilometer exclusion zone.
That were you spend all your remaining days.

Uh, radiation DECREASES with time, you pathetic loon.

--
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
*truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *-- Thomas Jefferson

With so much radiation on site specifically in the structurally
damaged waste core storage pools theres a real danger in another
earquake, the elevated pools could collapse, releasing enough
radiation to cause evacuation of most or all of japan.....

In article ,
Sylvia Else wrote:

On 25/03/2013 1:29 PM, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ,
Sylvia Else wrote:

On 25/03/2013 5:45 AM, bob haller wrote:
Could congress get their act together? with a real threat

Its may 2013 a asteroid passes right over our country, does some minor
damage.

It wasnt detected before but tracking on the 5 mile wide asteroid
shows it will devastingly impact our world in 2020.. A likely human
life ending event.....


In the event of a definite prediction of a hit by such an object in
2020, I'd say that politicians generally would find the will to act.

In practice, it would take time to pin down the orbit of a previously
undetected object, and the likely initial prediction for 2020 would be
"perhaps". If one hypothesises that in reality the object will hit in
2020, the question then becomes one of how long it takes before the
astromers have pinned that down with sufficient certainty that congress
will not be able to take a wait-and-see approach. The concern is
obviously that by the time the certainty crosses the threshold for
congressional action, it will then be too late.

As an aside, it's going to be a long time before we can deal with
extinction-sized objects that come barrelling in from the Oort cloud,
having never previously been seen.

Sylvia.

The Oort Cloud isn't the source of them -- they are artifacts of the
forces that created the Earth/Moon System and lie in somewhat more
elliptical orbits than that of the Earth/Moon. The problem is that their
orbital planes intersect ours and may, at some time, result in a
collision.


The near Earth objects obviously don't come in from the Oort cloud, but
that doesn't mean that a destructive object can't.

Sylvia.

They aren't going to come from the Oort Cloud unless something major out
there disturbs them.