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Chad Love: Book Your Trips Before 2029
Did you know an asteroid almost hit the Earth on Jan 13? I didn't, either. Not to worry, though. According to this story on Wired.com the asteroid probably wasn't large enough to create any sort of Deep Impact-type carnage.
The rock, between 30 and 50 feet across, was not in danger of striking the planet and probably would have burned up in the atmosphere before hitting Earth’s surface, if it had headed our way. The asteroid, dubbed 2010 AL30 was first spotted and announced Monday. It is the closest encounter Earth will have with any known object until 2024.
The good news is, my dreams of someday catching bluefin tuna, tarpon and salt-run stripers are still intact. The bad news is, I might want to get it done before 2029...
From the story:
In 2029 an asteroid known as Apophis will come three times closer than Wednesday’s asteroid did. Though the chances it will hit Earth are just one in 250,000, it is the subject of a lot of discussion, and Russia has announced it is making plans to deflect it.
Here's a link to some cool - if frightening - NASA animation showing what the near-miss might look like. I think NASA wisely chose not to produce animation showing what a collision with the 900-foot asteroid might look like.
So remember to book those trips or chase those dreams now, and recession be damned...
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Comments (15)
Please don't start the end is nigh b.s.
That near miss must explain the global warming anomaly we just experienced. (just being sarcastic)
We still have to get through 2012, you know. (sarcasm, again)
With all the technology and people looking into space we tend to expect that nothing big will slip through the cracks. I wonder if they would even tell the public if a big hit were inevitable. Why create chaos? (being realistic this time)
Wait a minute, Russia is making plans to deflect it? Is that like some ploy to get producing a new missile past the UN? Not that Russia ever listened to the UN, but still...
Maybe F&S needs to make plans to deflect the "booth babe asteroid" headed it's way. lol
And yet another good reason I am taking the family out to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons this summer. Got to get those "Must see trips" in while I can.
Hey Chad, did you get my e-mail address? Would love to discuss the Llewellin Setters. My pup is apparently still in the oven but about to pop any day.
Apophus will have to be delt with or Apophus will deal with us. I'm glad the Russians are stepping up here, somebody has to do so and the Russians seem to be the only space fleet with the heavy lift capacity to do anything useful. You can't just blow it up, you have to convince it to go elsewhere. If you can get to it on time you could land and put a nuclear Ion drive or some other prime mover on it you can use Newtonian physics to aim it elsewhere, but getting there is the trick. But we gotta do what we gotta do, or accept the end of everything we love in 2029. I don't think Apophus has the capacity to sterilize the planet, but it sure can douse the light of civilization as we know it, and we would really really like the light of civilization to keep burning nicely, thankyouverymuch!
The last dooms day I've herd is Nove 21 2012, the end of the Mayan calender
like clay said that is the only one i ve heard of...but i say the world will come to end when god says it will...and i have a feeling it is some time soon
The World will not end. It might be considerably messed up For Us, but the world will not end. Even the 2012 thing is the end of a calender, not the planet itself. When the year ends you simply put up another calender.
Not that humanity doesn't face multiple challenges, we do.
Not that the seers and prophets of a dozen cultures haven't suggested something bad is gonna happen...
Not that human stupidity on a grand scale isn't setting up millions of people for various colorful dooms...Statisticly alone we are likely to get hammered. But I'm a Pollyanna Pessimist, Yup, it gonna happ'n, but we'll muddle through...somehow.
Hey Wags, never received anything. Just e-mail me at ouchessie@gmail.com
Wags better get Yellowstone done before the Super Volcano erupts... the volcano wizzards say it's due!
Well that does it. Super volcano, Asteroid, Global Warming, December 21, 2012... Let's just pull all the plugs and have a free for all!
The fortress of solitude and class 5 zombie epidemic survival shall be ready by 2029. Good luck to the rest of ya.
Hey Beekeeper, that is another reason I'm heading out there this summer. I have to assume that would flat out ruin the fly fishing!! Of course, beings that I am going out there this summer, that super volcano will likely pop about the time I get to Davenport, Iowa. "Should have been here last week" is a way of life for me!
Are you actually an honest to goodness beekeeper? If so, you are even more rare than us quail hunters!
uh oh i might as well close my bank acounts, and spend all my money on that alaskan moose hunt i have always wanted to go on.
I don't know where you are but in WI I'd call it a depression, not just a recession, government statements be damned. And it just may last until 2029!
I really hope we aren't dependant on the Russians to save us, that's a scary thought; what are they planning, building a Chernobyl on it?
I think ol' Elmer Keith could have blown this thing up all by himself ;-]
It doesn't take the Russians. It just requires that the useless pendejo f**ks who ship American jobs overseas realize that if Americans aren't drawing income they're not gonna buy their cheap Chinese s**t. Henry Ford knew that for Americans to be consumers they had to be paid to be producers as well. It amazes me that so many "American" businessmen still haven't figured that out.
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That near miss must explain the global warming anomaly we just experienced. (just being sarcastic)
We still have to get through 2012, you know. (sarcasm, again)
With all the technology and people looking into space we tend to expect that nothing big will slip through the cracks. I wonder if they would even tell the public if a big hit were inevitable. Why create chaos? (being realistic this time)
Wait a minute, Russia is making plans to deflect it? Is that like some ploy to get producing a new missile past the UN? Not that Russia ever listened to the UN, but still...
Maybe F&S needs to make plans to deflect the "booth babe asteroid" headed it's way. lol
Please don't start the end is nigh b.s.
And yet another good reason I am taking the family out to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons this summer. Got to get those "Must see trips" in while I can.
Hey Chad, did you get my e-mail address? Would love to discuss the Llewellin Setters. My pup is apparently still in the oven but about to pop any day.
The fortress of solitude and class 5 zombie epidemic survival shall be ready by 2029. Good luck to the rest of ya.
Apophus will have to be delt with or Apophus will deal with us. I'm glad the Russians are stepping up here, somebody has to do so and the Russians seem to be the only space fleet with the heavy lift capacity to do anything useful. You can't just blow it up, you have to convince it to go elsewhere. If you can get to it on time you could land and put a nuclear Ion drive or some other prime mover on it you can use Newtonian physics to aim it elsewhere, but getting there is the trick. But we gotta do what we gotta do, or accept the end of everything we love in 2029. I don't think Apophus has the capacity to sterilize the planet, but it sure can douse the light of civilization as we know it, and we would really really like the light of civilization to keep burning nicely, thankyouverymuch!
The last dooms day I've herd is Nove 21 2012, the end of the Mayan calender
like clay said that is the only one i ve heard of...but i say the world will come to end when god says it will...and i have a feeling it is some time soon
The World will not end. It might be considerably messed up For Us, but the world will not end. Even the 2012 thing is the end of a calender, not the planet itself. When the year ends you simply put up another calender.
Not that humanity doesn't face multiple challenges, we do.
Not that the seers and prophets of a dozen cultures haven't suggested something bad is gonna happen...
Not that human stupidity on a grand scale isn't setting up millions of people for various colorful dooms...Statisticly alone we are likely to get hammered. But I'm a Pollyanna Pessimist, Yup, it gonna happ'n, but we'll muddle through...somehow.
Hey Wags, never received anything. Just e-mail me at ouchessie@gmail.com
I don't know where you are but in WI I'd call it a depression, not just a recession, government statements be damned. And it just may last until 2029!
I really hope we aren't dependant on the Russians to save us, that's a scary thought; what are they planning, building a Chernobyl on it?
I think ol' Elmer Keith could have blown this thing up all by himself ;-]
Wags better get Yellowstone done before the Super Volcano erupts... the volcano wizzards say it's due!
Well that does it. Super volcano, Asteroid, Global Warming, December 21, 2012... Let's just pull all the plugs and have a free for all!
Hey Beekeeper, that is another reason I'm heading out there this summer. I have to assume that would flat out ruin the fly fishing!! Of course, beings that I am going out there this summer, that super volcano will likely pop about the time I get to Davenport, Iowa. "Should have been here last week" is a way of life for me!
Are you actually an honest to goodness beekeeper? If so, you are even more rare than us quail hunters!
uh oh i might as well close my bank acounts, and spend all my money on that alaskan moose hunt i have always wanted to go on.
It doesn't take the Russians. It just requires that the useless pendejo f**ks who ship American jobs overseas realize that if Americans aren't drawing income they're not gonna buy their cheap Chinese s**t. Henry Ford knew that for Americans to be consumers they had to be paid to be producers as well. It amazes me that so many "American" businessmen still haven't figured that out.
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