Eric O. wrote : >"Hey no problem it is years away, long after I am retired." When >the next impactor is discovered 6 months or 9 months or 1 year > out there will be little time for anything except the finger pointing.
>"You don't have to change the course of the comet very much to >miss the keyhole if you do it a number of years in advance," >said Clark Chapman, >And the converse of that is that you don't have to change the >course much to get an impact either, a bank shot off another >small asteroid might do or a close approach to a larger one. Hola Eric, Don't you see, this is the very reason we need an impact of a body of this size. Selectively it will take out the bureaucratic tendencies out of our species, focus the survivors on science, give surviving scientists a wonderful dignity-redeeming real research project, and finally hush all of the contradicting voices in the paleontological and tektite worlds about what happens. Well, maybe some things never change. Just remember, intelligent monkies are directly attributed by science gracias to the Yucatan impact 65.X million years ago, if not we might just be a bunch of lazy Quetzalcoatlus' gazing on computer screens the size of big screen TVs...typing away on our beakboards. Is NASA ready to remove nature's next Monkey wrench so obsolete Hominids can survive? Re, your comment on the Converse, I got mine laced-up in preparation for the big event (and I expect there will be a hell of a party), since, with all the cataloged objects, should we doubt that at least those have been run effectively (besides Juno, Ceres, Vesta, Pallas) according to the possibility you suggest? (shrugging the shoulders) It would be interesting to know what assumptions were made regarding our own Moon's contributions to its orbit for the followup visits... Saludos, Doug ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
