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Title: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: vaskidmark on June 05, 2014, 04:45:16 PM
http://www.space.com/26129-beast-asteroid-near-earth-flyby-webcast.html?cmpid=514648

(nasty auto-play ad happens first)

"The Beast"?  Big as three football staduims (stadia?)?

 [popcorn]

stay safe.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: 280plus on June 05, 2014, 05:16:54 PM
Any way we can nudge it toward DC?
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Brad Johnson on June 05, 2014, 05:35:39 PM
Any way we can nudge it toward DC?


Anyone got a spare Q36 Explosive Space Modulator handy?

Brad
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: geronimotwo on June 05, 2014, 05:40:29 PM
if this had an earth intersecting trajectory what could we have done with only 5 weeks warning?
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: lee n. field on June 05, 2014, 06:56:13 PM
   
There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
 [popcorn]

stay safe.

Big enough.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Bigjake on June 05, 2014, 07:03:18 PM
if this had an earth intersecting trajectory what could we have done with only 5 weeks warning?

Recruit a bunch of roughneck oil drillers lead by Bruce Willis to save us?  ;/
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on June 05, 2014, 07:43:57 PM
Try to drink all the booze before it hit


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Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 05, 2014, 07:44:07 PM
if this had an earth intersecting trajectory what could we have done with only 5 weeks warning?


I think, somehow, it would involve Vladimir Putin and a very powerful catapult.

Unless we could get Chuck Norris to just stare at it, disapprovingly.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: HankB on June 05, 2014, 09:18:06 PM
if this had an earth intersecting trajectory what could we have done with only 5 weeks warning?
Aw, come on, in 5 weeks we have enough time to come to a bipartisan agreement on the composition of a special committee to determine the scope and authority of the select commission to investigate the best means of forming an international group to address the international co-ordination of efforts to determine the best means of studying how to deal with the problem in a culturally sensitive manner . . .  
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Bigjake on June 05, 2014, 09:23:25 PM
Aw, come on, in 5 weeks we have enough time to come to a bipartisan agreement on the composition of a special committee to determine the scope and authority of the select commission to investigate the best means of forming an international group to address the international co-ordination of efforts to determine the best means of studying how to deal with the problem in a culturally sensitive manner . . .  

 Wimmin and children hardest hit
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Sergeant Bob on June 05, 2014, 10:09:33 PM
"The Road".
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 05, 2014, 10:15:28 PM
if this had an earth intersecting trajectory what could we have done with only 5 weeks warning?

Blame Bush and Cheney.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: TommyGunn on June 05, 2014, 11:20:48 PM
Wimmin and children hardest hit
Blame Bush and Cheney.

Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: tokugawa on June 05, 2014, 11:33:44 PM
Anyone got a spare Q36 Explosive Space Modulator handy?

Brad

 Mine is in the shop.
 But I do have a nice MK3 Sub Space Oscillator handy. The certification for complete galaxy disruption is out of date, but it should work ok on an asteroid.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Northwoods on June 06, 2014, 01:48:34 AM
Mine is in the shop.
 But I do have a nice MK3 Sub Space Oscillator handy. The certification for complete galaxy disruption is out of date, but it should work ok on an asteroid.

You sold a reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity to an unlicensed cephalopoid?  Jeebs, you piece of *expletive deleted*.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: 280plus on June 06, 2014, 12:53:18 PM
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Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: TommyGunn on June 06, 2014, 01:17:16 PM
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That was ... pithy.  :lol:
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Doggy Daddy on June 06, 2014, 02:26:24 PM
That was ... pithy.  :lol:

You think so?  Personally, I just don't get the point of it all.  Period.   ;/
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: RocketMan on June 06, 2014, 04:31:34 PM
Lighten up, guys.  We all know 280plus is a man of few words.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: 280plus on June 06, 2014, 04:36:19 PM
 :lol:

Long story short I tried to quote that astronaut pic with my own clever little caption but it didn't transfer. Then I tried to delete it but that wasn't working for me either, it was insisting I put some text in there. In my infinite wisdom I chose the period seen above. I'd like to think I got my point across.  :cool:
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: vaskidmark on June 07, 2014, 04:53:52 PM
:lol:

Long story short I tried to quote that astronaut pic with my own clever little caption but it didn't transfer. Then I tried to delete it but that wasn't working for me either, it was insisting I put some text in there. In my infinite wisdom I chose the period seen above. I'd like to think I got my point across.  :cool:

So was it a period or a point?  Or possibly a decimal point?

Until we get this straightened out those JPL doofi who crash-landed a Mars rover over the difference between kilometers and miles are going to look like rocket scientists.

stay safe.
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: AmbulanceDriver on June 07, 2014, 09:42:06 PM
:lol:

Long story short I tried to quote that astronaut pic with my own clever little caption but it didn't transfer. Then I tried to delete it but that wasn't working for me either, it was insisting I put some text in there. In my infinite wisdom I chose the period seen above. I'd like to think I got my point across.  :cool:

Are you on your period?
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: Sergeant Bob on June 08, 2014, 12:59:04 AM
So was it a period or a point?  Or possibly a decimal point?

Until we get this straightened out those JPL doofi who crash-landed a Mars rover over the difference between kilometers and miles are going to look like rocket scientists.

stay safe.

I mean, "Frakking oops!", I mean WTF!
Title: Re: There will be no earth-shattering kaboom.
Post by: 280plus on June 08, 2014, 05:03:20 PM
Let's just call it a periodic point in time.

And no, I am not flying the Bravo.  I'm just a little cranky. :P