Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change?

From	Sergio <invalid@invalid.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change?
Date	2018-05-17 12:22 -0500
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On 5/16/2018 4:52 PM, Trevor Wilson wrote:
> On 16/05/2018 12:19 AM, Sergio wrote:
>> On 5/14/2018 7:12 PM, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>> On 15/05/2018 10:00 AM, Sergio wrote:
>>>> On 5/14/2018 6:41 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Physics Question;
>>>>
>>>> so, at 20,000 mph, and 20 years away, how large is the asteroid to be
>>>> detectable by radar at that distance ?  OR how about by reflected light
>>>> ? (assume rock is coming straight towards earth >
>>>> part 2.   How much mass to we need to put up there to effect the
>>>> path of
>>>> the rock ?  (assume by gravity, by explosion, or by hitting it like a q
>>>> ball)
>>>>
>>>> part 3. how much time and energy does it take to put the mass up there
>>>> to the asteroid from Earth to affect something ?
>>>>
>>>> (math is not hard, but I think you will see how the Earth is in very
>>>> deep yogurt when it comes to asteroids, of most any size, (Bruce Willis
>>>> cannot save the planet))
>>>>
>>>
>>> **No doubt about it. Fortunately, the chances of being hit are
>>> incredibly remote. Unlike global warming, which is measurable and
>>> something we may be able to deal with.
>>>
>>> BTW: If you want any calculations done, use the accepted scientific
>>> units. No one uses Imperial measurements any more.
>>
>> Fosters beer comes in p & q's dude.
> 
> **No one in Australia drinks Fosters. It's Australia's worst beer. It's
> designed solely for undiscerning foreigners. My Miller Genuine Draft
> comes in 350ml bottles.

Millers is Detroit pee beer.

> 
>>
>> answer the physics question.
> 
> **No.

we all know you cant

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What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-13 12:54 -0500
  Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-05-13 16:18 -0700
  Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-05-13 16:51 -0700
  Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 12:24 -0700
    Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2018-05-14 20:09 -0700
  Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 06:09 +1000
    Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-14 15:27 -0500
      Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-14 19:03 -0400
        Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 09:32 +1000
    Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-14 18:24 -0400
      Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 08:49 +1000
        Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-14 20:09 -0400
          Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-14 19:26 -0500
          Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 10:44 +1000
    Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 16:30 -0700
      Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 09:41 +1000
        Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-14 19:00 -0500
          Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 10:12 +1000
            Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-05-14 22:53 -0400
            Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-15 09:19 -0500
              Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-17 07:52 +1000
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-17 12:22 -0500
          Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-14 20:13 -0400
        Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-14 20:11 -0400
          Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 10:46 +1000
            Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-14 22:09 -0400
              Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-15 16:00 +1000
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 01:37 -0700
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 05:17 -0700
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 05:25 -0700
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 12:27 +0000
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-05-15 09:56 -0400
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 15:42 -0700
            Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-14 21:20 -0500
              Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-16 09:32 +1000
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-05-16 12:00 -0500
                Re: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change? Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2018-05-17 07:53 +1000

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