Is God ****ed, or what?

Is the 2029 NEO encounter of #99942/Apophis of 100,000+ tonnes passing
at 35,406 km (less than a tenth the distance to our moon) close
enough?

How about surviving a lithobraking encounter (most likely involving
ocean vaporizing displacements) of 40+ km/s?

Is there such a thing as RRGI(Road Rage God Insurance)?
.. - Brad Guth

Dear BradGuth:

On Mar 3, 2:45*pm, BradGuth wrote:
Is the 2029 NEO encounter of #99942/Apophis of 100,000+
tonnes passing at 35,406 km (less than a tenth the
distance to our moon) close enough?

How about surviving a lithobraking encounter (most likely
involving ocean vaporizing displacements) of 40+ km/s?

Is there such a thing as RRGI(Road Rage God Insurance)?

Yes, it is called a "viable, funded, space program".

David A. Smith

dlzc wrote:
Dear BradGuth:

On Mar 3, 2:45�pm, BradGuth wrote:
Is the 2029 NEO encounter of #99942/Apophis of 100,000+
tonnes passing at 35,406 km (less than a tenth the
distance to our moon) close enough?

How about surviving a lithobraking encounter (most likely
involving ocean vaporizing displacements) of 40+ km/s?

Is there such a thing as RRGI(Road Rage God Insurance)?

Yes, it is called a "viable, funded, space program".

David A. Smith

If I were the least bit in charge, that alternative of a "viable,
funded, space program" would sound perfectly good to me, especially
considering the amount of the Godly potential of collateral damage and
carnage of the mostly innocent as delivered by such a whopping sucker-
punch, and only worse yet if we did nothing much to save ourselves.

21 years simply isn't long enough for getting hardly 10% of humanity
to higher ground, much less accommodated deep within Earth. A direct
ocean hit of that magnitude isn't exactly going to be all that
survivable, even if you're situated on the opposite side.
. - Brad Guth

"BradGuth" wrote in message ...
If I were the least bit in charge, that alternative of a "viable,
funded, space program" would sound perfectly good to me, especially
considering the amount of the Godly potential of collateral damage and
carnage of the mostly innocent as delivered by such a whopping sucker-
punch, and only worse yet if we did nothing much to save ourselves.

21 years simply isn't long enough for getting hardly 10% of humanity
to higher ground, much less accommodated deep within Earth. A direct
ocean hit of that magnitude isn't exactly going to be all that
survivable, even if you're situated on the opposite side.
. - Brad Guth

You talk of innocence as if the world (or universe, or nature etc)
owes some people something. It doesn't. We see this same
misguided mentality all the time: "victims" of earthquakes,
tsunamis etc. It's just people getting in nature's way, and
trying to make it fit within their own prejudiced confines.

If you do your best to live a moral life, there's no longer a need
to worry about when or how your demise might come. I'll take
a cosmic impact to terminal cancer any day.

On Mar 3, 7:48 pm, wrote:
"BradGuth" wrote in ...
If I were the least bit in charge, that alternative of a "viable,
funded, space program" would sound perfectly good to me, especially
considering the amount of the Godly potential of collateral damage and
carnage of the mostly innocent as delivered by such a whopping sucker-
punch, and only worse yet if we did nothing much to save ourselves.

21 years simply isn't long enough for getting hardly 10% of humanity
to higher ground, much less accommodated deep within Earth. A direct
ocean hit of that magnitude isn't exactly going to be all that
survivable, even if you're situated on the opposite side.
. - Brad Guth

You talk of innocence as if the world (or universe, or nature etc)
owes some people something. It doesn't. We see this same
misguided mentality all the time: "victims" of earthquakes,
tsunamis etc. It's just people getting in nature's way, and
trying to make it fit within their own prejudiced confines.

If you do your best to live a moral life, there's no longer a need
to worry about when or how your demise might come. I'll take
a cosmic impact to terminal cancer any day.

If we can't survive or best entirely divert this one, then we might as
well just give up and let whatever else take place, much like our
FEMA, as then the living of our fancy suit wearing folks can take all
the credit for the good things and blame all the bad stuff on Muslims,
or perhaps on Venezuela.
.. - Brad Guth

"BradGuth" wrote in message
...
On Mar 3, 7:48 pm, wrote:

..

If you do your best to live a moral life, there's no longer a need
to worry about when or how your demise might come. I'll take
a cosmic impact to terminal cancer any day.

If we can't survive or best entirely divert this one, then we might as
well just give up and let whatever else take place, much like our
FEMA, as then the living of our fancy suit wearing folks can take all
the credit for the good things and blame all the bad stuff on Muslims,
or perhaps on Venezuela.


Good 'ol Hugo just got busted big time. Columbia's raid netted FARC
computers showing Chavez gave some $300 million to the terrorists.
Chavez is sending 10 brigades to the Columbian border as he needs
to somehow convolute the evidence, while using the threat of a war
to quell internal dissent.

Since Chavez seems headed moth-like into a confrontration, and
Columbia's military would wipe their arses with the Venezuelan
forces, this has 'socialist disaster' written all over it.




. - Brad Guth

Dear BradGuth:

On Mar 3, 3:24*pm, BradGuth wrote:
...
21 years simply isn't long enough for getting hardly 10%
of humanity to higher ground, much less accommodated
deep within Earth.

It is however more than enough time to catch Apophis and divert its
path. And to mount a campaign to search for other Near Earth Objects,
and either divert or harvest them.

Deep within the Earth is called "the grave". Don't want to plan on
being down there when a really big one hits. Afterwards, maybe... for
a time.

David A. Smith

On Mar 4, 6:14 am, dlzc wrote:
Dear BradGuth:

On Mar 3, 3:24 pm, BradGuth wrote:
...

21 years simply isn't long enough for getting hardly 10%
of humanity to higher ground, much less accommodated
deep within Earth.

It is however more than enough time to catch Apophis and divert its
path. And to mount a campaign to search for other Near Earth Objects,
and either divert or harvest them.

Deep within the Earth is called "the grave". Don't want to plan on
being down there when a really big one hits. Afterwards, maybe... for
a time.

David A. Smith

I agree, that a global plan of action for saving ourselves by way of
diverting this sucker seems doable, or we could just wait and see.

Too bad we can't effectively modify its orbital trajectory in order to
fully terminate Apophis, by way of having it impact our moon. At
least that option would likely save Earth as well as cover up any
signs of our supposed Apollo mission, as buried under meters of that
dark moon dust.

Once impacted into our naked moon and that dust settles down, we could
send our boys with all that "right stuff" back to their passive moon
in order to harvest those raw elements of Apophis, as well as to see
whatever that new hole into our moon as to offer.

I'm going to restart this topic without giving God any credit, because
obviously we're not being cared for or otherwise looked after by
anything of his/her doings. There's actually a better chance China is
going to save us, as they have proven expertise in targeting distant
targets, as well as Germany having the navigational expertise.
.. - Brad Guth

Dear BradGuth:

On Mar 4, 8:18*am, BradGuth wrote:
...
I agree, that a global plan of action for saving ourselves
by way of diverting this sucker seems doable, or we
could just wait and see.

Too bad we can't effectively modify its orbital trajectory
in order to fully terminate Apophis, by way of having it
impact our moon.

I'd rather capture it in orbit, L4 or L5 perhaps, and use it for raw
materials. Possibly less fuel than lofting it from Earth.

...
Once impacted into our naked moon and that dust
settles down, we could send our boys with all that
"right stuff" back to their passive moon in order to
harvest those raw elements of Apophis, as well as
to see whatever that new hole into our moon as to offer.

No need. Harvest Apophis in-situ. No need in bombarding Earth for
years with lunar regolith. 300 pounds was enough.

I'm going to restart this topic without giving God any
credit, because obviously we're not being cared for
or otherwise looked after by anything of his/her
doings.

On the contrary, we could have been set certain challenges. Do you
keep your child from falling right up until he/she is 18, then let
them fall? Apophis is no more disproof of God that it is proof of
God. We learn to survive, or see if the bees can do any better than
we did.

*There's actually a better chance China is going to save
us, as they have proven expertise in targeting distant
targets, as well as Germany having the navigational
expertise.

China may "save us", as a fisherman saves a tuna. Seems like
everybody owns our debt... but US.

If you recall, NASA hit a comet ("Deep Impact") which was no small
feat. HItting Mars was unintentional... ;)

David A. Smith

"BradGuth" wrote in message ...
Is the 2029 NEO encounter of #99942/Apophis of 100,000+ tonnes passing
at 35,406 km (less than a tenth the distance to our moon) close
enough?

How about surviving a lithobraking encounter (most likely involving
ocean vaporizing displacements) of 40+ km/s?

Is there such a thing as RRGI(Road Rage God Insurance)?
. - Brad Guth

News flash, Brad: sooner or later it's going to happen. Just mother
nature doing its thing. Call it nature's reset button.

By the time it does happen, Earth will be such a cesspool of
pollution, overpopulation and evil it'll be considered by most to be
a blessing of theistic proportion. Well, at least Danny Min will
think so.