Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Trevor Wilson Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:00:47 +1000 Lines: 113 Message-ID: References: <22d5379e-04da-4c0f-b092-af580097f5e9@googlegroups.com> <0krKC.156543$RM2.57332@fx05.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TZS7p3aQ3NwbZISJTY5WMQWKeSAgYC2jEUvJiwYURRfFlPbwun Cancel-Lock: sha1:OcNQR2Amge4xkBJNOlrPA2u+TGI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: <0krKC.156543$RM2.57332@fx05.iad> Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 180514-4, 15/05/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:685533 On 15/05/2018 12:09 PM, benj wrote: > On 5/14/2018 8:46 PM, Trevor Wilson wrote: >> On 15/05/2018 10:11 AM, benj wrote: >>> On 5/14/2018 7:41 PM, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 15/05/2018 9:30 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote: >>>>> On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 6:09:36 AM UTC+10, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>>>> On 14/05/2018 3:54 AM, Sergio wrote: >>>>>>> obviously Asteroids!! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-impact-climate-change/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Nevertheless, they wrote, "The asteroid-threat community has been >>>>>>> much >>>>>>> more successful than the climate change community in >>>>>>> characterizing the >>>>>>> dominant worst-case scenarios and communicating them to >>>>>>> policymakers, >>>>>>> the media and the public—even though the climate change threat is >>>>>>> more >>>>>>> than a thousand times greater…, [therefore] quantitative >>>>>>> comparison of >>>>>>> climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both >>>>>>> threats >>>>>>> into perspective." >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> **Walk, chew gum. Humans can do both. Certainly NASA and the other >>>>>> agencies must continue to identify objects that may endanger the >>>>>> planet. >>>>>> We must also deal with the reality of global warming. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Trevor Wilson >>>>>> www.rageaudio.com.au >>>>> >>>>> What the f can anyone do when they learn at the last moment that an >>>>> asteroid is coming to wipe out New York? Or Mosocow, Beijing, >>>>> Tokyo, Kolkata, etc.? >>>>> >>>> >>>> **With sufficient warning (20 ~ 30 years), then we may be able to >>>> alter the orbit of the object, sufficiently, so that it misses >>>> Earth. With less warning, nothing. >>>> >>> Hey, Mr. "scientist" >> >> **I never claimed to be a scientist, Mr Lap-dog. I just understand a >> whole lot more about science than you do. > > Ignorant journaist-strategic writer! Stick to spelling and grammar. > >>   you didn't work out Sergio's little physics problem > > This is so trivial if you weren't a journalist you'd have the answer. > Look, as a scientist (yes it's true) I'll give you a hint. **You, a scientist? LOL! You're not a scientist's arsehole. You know nothing about science. That much is obvious to everyone. The asteroid > is 10 million miles away traveling at 20,000 miles per hour. So divide > 10 million miles by 20,000 mile/hour and get 500 hours. Bonus points. 24 > hours in a day so you have a little less than 21 days to get the rockets > off to do something. But wait. The earth's gravity will start > accelerating the asteroid toward the planet as it gets closer. So tell > us just how much our 21 days are reduced by this effect? Can't do it? No > matter a little bluster and an essay on what a "waste of time" saving > your ass is will do instead. > > Just call me the science guy. See if you would shut your yapping (libs > always accuse others of doing what they themselves do) mouth and listen > to some knowledge for a change, you'd know a little math and science. **I know more about maths and science than you will ever know. You are a moron. A yapping, lap-dog moron. > > We can discuss how doable a launch in 20 days is but we haven't > discussed yet WHAT (how much mass) needs to be launched. I"m not going > to do that for you because I don't take orders from ignorant > journalist-writers, but I assure you the answer is quite interesting. > > See how enlightening it is when you listen to scientists like Sergio and > myself instead of name-calling like some grade-schooler? > >> **And I have no intention of doing so. It's irrelevant. And Sergio >> still can't use the international scientific units of measurements. > > And you can't even divide two numbers! Oh I forgot, nobody uses math > after they graduate from high school. **Wrong. I employ maths every single day. > >>> of how much warning time one might have. Cat got your science tongue? >> >> **Waste of time on you. You wouldn't understand anyway. > > Who do you think you are fooling? what kind of drugs are you on? You've > just been thoroughly spanked and shown to be ignorant and yet you > persist in your fantasy that everyone else is stupid? Get a life and get > meds. **Stop your yapping, lap-dog. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au