Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:04:20 -0600 Message-ID: <569748A2.476B@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:05:06 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: protect-earth-from-asteroids References: <56952E1D.38D8@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 39 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-2aPcArnO3D0JQ9pvoHMESTbH3cC2YiSq6AS6MELpWCA7RFvahHOuthmp4VKZ4OQWNX4GMxZl022rIJV!z38rbuM3SAzjaRepVg61lR7hWYSCetzrCg2JoJq4fsTqHsKIAPrucuvghPbuMQVoqAAHouYSP1uD!Xv3jVJCbIA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2678 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:281150 sci.physics:545296 sci.physics.relativity:373905 rec.arts.sf.written:430839 J. Clarke wrote: > > In article , > 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.