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Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids

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J. Clarke wrote:
> 
> In article <dfo74nFbjocU1@mid.individual.net>,
> sylvia@not.at.this.address says...
> >
> > On 13/01/2016 3:47 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > >
> > > I think they come up with a 'new' racket everyday to take your money.
> > >
> >
> > It's clear from the geological record that the Earth has been hit by
> > large objects in the past, and that the results can be devastating -
> > wiped out the dinosaurs, and a good many other life forms, for example.
> >
> > Lesser impacts have caused widespread, if not actually global, damage. A
> > meteor could easily take out an entire city, killing millions of people.
> 
> It could do worse than that.
> Take a look at 51° 19.744' N  68° 41.193' W in Google Earth.  That
> feature, roughly 60 miles in diameter, is a 200 million year old meteor
> crater.
> 
> Imagine if that hit, say, Hartford.  Hartford goes, and Springfield, and
> New Haven, and while they aren't actually going to be inside the crater,
> New York and Boston are both going to pretty much cease to exist, and
> most of the east coast is going to be in much the same condition as it
> might be after a nuclear attack, minus the radiation.
> 
> And it gets worse--there's reason to believe that it was a multiple
> impact with addtional strikes in France, Ukraine, North Dakota, and
> Manitoba.
> 
> > So it's not unreasonable to seek to prevent such disasters if
> possible.
> >
> > Sylvia.


Learn to build an Asteroid and kill all the Russians.

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protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-12 08:47 -0800
  Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids David Staup <dstaup@charter.net> - 2016-01-12 11:44 -0600
  Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Arc Michael <abookoflife@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-12 14:09 -0800
  Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-13 11:12 -0800
  Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-14 11:06 +1100
    Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 19:19 -0500
    Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids R Kym Horsell <kym@kymhorsell.com> - 2016-01-14 00:22 +0000
    Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 20:36 -0500
      Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-13 23:05 -0800
        Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Arc Michael <abookoflife@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-14 12:04 -0800
      Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-01-14 04:59 -0700
      Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-14 11:55 -0800
        Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-01-14 15:15 -0600
          Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-14 14:05 -0800
            Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2016-01-14 16:56 -0700
              Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids "Notroll2016" <notroll2015@charter.net> - 2016-01-14 19:25 -0600
                Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2016-01-15 10:31 -0700
              Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2016-01-15 10:39 -0700
            Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-01-14 19:27 -0600
              Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-14 18:17 -0800
                Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-14 22:14 -0800
            Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-15 22:45 -0800
              Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2016-01-16 07:48 -0700
          Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Arc Michael <abookoflife@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-14 20:35 -0800
        Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2016-01-15 14:16 -0700

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