RT @esaoperations: ESA experts confirm *no* link between #meteor incidents in #Russia & #Asteroid #2012DA14 Earth flyby of tonight #SSA #NEO
— ESA (@esa) February 15, 2013
More, everywhere. And for Doomsday Preppers, another good reason to live in Saskatchewan – no “natural choke points”.
The distance that the asteroid misses earth by may sound large to some until you consider the speeds and distance. It misses earth by 20 minutes.
Thought the hashtag for this news would be either ‘Waiting for the Asteroid’ or ‘Not Waiting for the Asteroid.’
What a boring name for a Near Earth Astroid.
Despite the thoughts of one CNN news air head, there is also no link to CAGW and asteroid or meteor hits.
Thought the hashtag for this news would be either ‘Waiting for the Asteroid’ or ‘Not Waiting for the Asteroid.’
Must say what a boring name for a Near Earth Asteroid.
Nah – in SK you’re sitting ducks. Down here in Nfld. there are all kinds of rocks to hide behind.
No natural choke points…
On the other hand, if an asteroid fell on you, the rest of the world would be thinking “Phew, it hit a whole lot of nothing…”
And the NYT would complain that the fallout dust is screwing up the evening commute for women.
There will be people claiming this is irrefutable proof that humans cause climate change and global warming.
Yeah… “unrelated”… wouldn’t want to cause panic now so the mucky mucks can evacuate safely to the bunkers. If you trust any of these terrorists to tell the truth you’re a fool.
I agree on the boring name, we should name it Festus… or something similarly offbeat, just to annoy the lefties, who’ll demand it be named Jamal, or Toneesha or some such
“On the other hand, if an asteroid fell on you, the rest of the world would be thinking …”
Posted by: Fred2
I’m thinking if it fell on us we wouldn’t much care what the rest of the world would be thinking.
I doubt there would be “months” of warning that an asteroid might hit a given city. In that time frame, it would be just whether or not it hits the Earth at all. As the time dwindles to weeks and days, and more and better measurements of the object’s orbit are made, the size and location of the expected impact zone could be reduced.
For an object going 20,000 miles per hour, an uncertainty of just one second on the impact time could mean an uncertainty of 5 and half miles. Not to mention that when it starts to interact with the atmosphere, random events start happening. It will begin breaking up, and the violence of those explosions may deflect it in unpredictable ways.
Probably the best thing that one could do in the event of an expected impact is to do the standard prep for any “end of the world as we know it” calamity, and then take shelter in a deep cellar at the appointed time. If it’s a direct hit, you’re toast anyway, but if it’s not, you should escape immediate death from the blast effects.
Here’s a cool interactive map of known meteoroid hits on Earth. BC is the only province in Canada not to be hit by a meteor-don’t know if that’s good or bad news for British Colombians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/feb/15/meteorite-fall-map
Apologize for the double-post earlier.
This is is something people should actually spend trillions on to try and prevent…no governmental control elements so they won’t, obviously.
Following the example of the public service glitterati, perhaps I could get the taxpayer to pay me $30,000.00 for the hour-long speeches I have to give to residents on life-saving topics such as management of the difficult airway in trauma patients and the like. But then I guess I’m not one of the self-anointed entitled who is entitled to his entitlements.
These taxpayer-funded nouveau nobility just make me want to puke.
Man, did I ever post that on the wrong thread! That’s how steamed Shiny Pony has got me!
No link? No link at all? Really?
Now, I’ll grant you that I don’t know a damned thing about astrophysics, but… a few hours after a 200 meter asteroid whizzes by earth, a few small rocks smash into us with enough force to do quite a bit of damage, and there’s NO link? What’s that saying about coincidences?
It wasn’t the large asteroid that hit us, no, but in all likelihood it was involved – small debris that either broke off of the larger asteroid and was trailing behind, or just something caught up in its gravity wake.
Of course, admitting that would be admitting that these kinds of asteroids are just too small for us to detect, and that would be embarrassing, so…. NO LINK!
“Man, did I ever post that on the wrong thread! That’s how steamed Shiny Pony has got me!”
Asteroids…hemmorhoids – we understand.
Yes, Russian impacts clearly have NOTHING to do with the asteroid, because a big rock would -never- spall off little rocks, and even if it did those little rocks would -never- continue on in the same orbit, a couple thousand miles away. Right? Right?
And the Russians totally have an anti-aircraft missile that can hit a rock going 22 THOUSAND miles an hour, right? Right?
Innumeracy and a lack of science education is a bigger problem than one might think based on casual observation in good times.
Another teachable moment for Lefties.. You can never predict when your carefully administered central planning will fail. 1000 people suddenly cut by flying glass from a meteor shockwave. Who even knew a meteor could do that? What’s that going to do to the Ministry of Health’s bandaid budget? Is there enough slack in the system to handle it, or did you Lefty geniuses make it… efficient?
Central planners, this is why we mock you.
Yup, the socialists have made sure SK isn’t over populated. Of course, one can’t run away too fast on those roads. heh
From the comments at Zerohedge:
“It’s Bush’s fault”
In NFLD you have an advantage as you are a half hour later. Time to prepare.
Ha ha, just kidding.
Another Sask advantage would be the shock waves would be absorbed in the sod walls of the houses out there. Plus the wax paper windows would be less lethal than windows in modern places like the Ural mountains. One other advantage is you would be able to see the asteroid coming a lot sooner than in the canyons of Bay Street.
Asteroids hitting Saskatchewan?
Good idea, we could use more lakes.
Saskatchewan is protected by the “Dome of Divinity” which God hath erected many moons ago to protect his chosen people. Well, that’s what they told me when I lived there. Sounded kinda fishy, though, I think they were just lying to me because I was from Ontario.
“..Sounded kinda fishy, though, I think they were just lying to me because I was from Ontario…”
Let me finish that sentence for you.
…the province that elected a serial liar to the Premier’s office three times.
Do you ever give that whiny attitude a break or is the chip on your shoulder so large you can’t forget it? I’ve lived in both places and enjoyed them. What do you use for perspective? The murky depths of your own butt?
Me thinks NASA got caught with their pants down, predicting HD2012 and missing the Russian asteroid completely. But No Link ? Comon.
There are no natural choke points in Toronto either—it’s not on an island. That doesn’t mean most Torontonians would have time to get to an area where the blast would be survivable by the time it was clear that their nests were going to be cleaned out once and for all. They might have only a few minutes’ notice, if that.
To put it another way, on the day the Lord’s patience with the Bay Street banksters and the Muslim rabble runs out, few of them will have a clue what hit them until they arrive in Gehenna. As few of those were ever going to repent and turn their backs on Mammon and Mohammed, that’s as it should be—the better to ensure God’s people are rid of their torturers once and for all.
You know neither the day nor the hour. That’s not a bug, that’s a feature. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
…the province that elected a serial liar to the Premier’s office three times.
Which one? heh
Well, one was five times…
And the No.1 reason to live in Saskatchewan,Being able to watch your dog run away and having three days to track him in plain sight 🙂
In the immediate aftermath of the 1917 Halifax explosion…a ship chartered by Boston residents, arrived in Halifax before the Canadian Government relief train.
Besides doctors, nurses and medical supplies, the good folk of Boston also shipped tons of window glass and an army of glaziers…..to replace windows in a mid-winter situation.
I suspect even a creaky Russian government will be dipatching glaziers and lotsa window glass to Tankograd…(WW2 nickname for Chelyabinsk).
Not many realize the awesome power of sonic booms….back in the day I witnessed road signs bent/broken, and cars knocked sideways by the wakes of B58 tests. Current SOP is to limit supersonic test flights to over water….
big al
yup, those 1 legged dogs sure do run slow and funny:-)
Dick ( is that a name or discription??)
I’ll git rite on inventing a god for U, just so’s your preDICKtion may come true!!!
I’ll bet a fool like you could quack religion in a thread about knitting socks!!
Unfortunately, that meteor came down over the wrong continent. The Russians have seen through the CAGW scam and don’t need convincing that there are far more dangerous things out there than a tiny increase in the earth’s temperature. Looking at the pictures from the area, I think they’d probably be very happy if it got warmer.
What would have been perfect was if this meteor had exploded over Washington DC. That just might get some of the moonbat senators thinking that maybe there are more dangerous things out there than plant food. However, the most likely response (several days after he’s dragged out of the WH bunker), would be the TOTUS talking about the great economic stimulus this event had provided as there wasn’t a single unemployed glazier in the adjacent states.
That was the effect of just a 50 ft chunk of rock. The piece of rock that’s going to supposedly miss the earth by the width of a bacterial flagellum (in cosmic terms) packs 27 times the energy of the 50 footer – that’s assuming that it would hit at the same velocity; if it’s faster, remember that KE = mV^2. So if it’s twice as fast, it would pack 108 times the punch.
If the US government isn’t immediately pressing for a crash program of early warning space stations and high speed nuclear interceptor missiles to change the course of potential dinosaur killer asteroids, then we truly know that western civilization is in terminal decline. Likely, any meteor defense system will be built by the Russians and the Chicoms, and I wouldn’t put it past them to send messages to the US like “there’s a 500′ asteroid heading your way, estimated point of impact NYC – if you want, for $1 trillion we can deflect it. Funds to be paid in gold, not inflated US toilet paper”.
I keep thinking of the Simpsons episode where Bart’s comet was going to hit Springfield. Meteorites burn up in the atmosphere but can cause damage (surprise, surprise). A man in New Zealand had one crash through his roof:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3802865.stm
And then there was the Tunguska meteorite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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You talking to me???
Gee, sensitive little fellow, aren’t you?
Don’t tell me you actually voted for McGuinty all three times!