RE: should we try to deflect this asteroid, if it poses a threat?
Answer: Do you wear your seat belt?
If we have the technology, and not moving the asteroid is a bigger threat
than moving it, I say yes! I like living in an era where the Black Death in
city-killing plagues is a thing of the
While I feel a good deal of affection for Tom, saying we shouldn't
deflect a meteoroid before it strikes the earth with devastating
effect because we should leave Mother Nature to her own ways
(yes, paraphrase I did), is like saying we shouldn't utilize penicillin
to fight infection, utilize
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +, tracy latimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no desire to be wiped out, or even seriously inconvenienced by space
junk; I fully expect to be around in 2039, barring an accident of the type
where a seat belt wouldn't help.
We could use a good 95% human
Am I the only one who really liked the name given to this asteroid?
jeff
At 02:49 PM 7/26/2005, Darren Garrison wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +, tracy latimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have no desire to be wiped out, or even seriously inconvenienced by space
junk; I fully expect
: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004 MN4 -
99942Apophis)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0726/p01s04-stss.html
An asteroid, headed our way
By Peter N. Spotts
The Christian Science Monitor
July 26, 2005
Humans live in a vast solar system where 2,000 feet seems a razor-thin
Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004
MN4 -99942Apophis)
Hi List,
I have to ask, is it right to mess with mother nature? From the
beginning
of time cosmic events have been part
List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004 MN4
-99942Apophis)
Hi List,
I have to ask, is it right to mess with mother nature? From the
beginning
of time cosmic events have been part of nature
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004
MN4-99942Apophis)
A few hundred years ago the bubonic plague was a natural disaster. Should
we
throw away penicillin?
Chris
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004 MN4
-99942Apophis)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:27:01 -0700
Hi List,
I have to ask, is it right to mess with mother nature? From the beginning
of time cosmic events have been part of nature. If mother nature thinks
it's time
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004
MN4 -99942Apophis)
Hi, all,
Hi, Tom,
I thought this was tongue-in-cheek, but your second post indicates it's
not!
Mother nature knows what she's doing, let her do her
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From: Tom Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004
MN4-99942Apophis)
Hi Pete and list,
Do you really believe
P.S. in case you are not aware, they think aids
started my some pervert
getting a little to personal with a monkey.
That's possible. But another route of HIV
transference, considered more likely, is eating of
poorly cooked monkey flesh. I recall seeing
photographs of this cuisine from the
: Monday, July 25, 2005 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004
MN4-99942Apophis)
Hey Tom, we're part and parcel of what Mother Nature's conjured up, so
why
not do her bidding. The mind's and it's technology would be a waste of
millions if not billions of years
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