Personally I am highly skeptical that they could predict with enough
accuracy where one would fall in the event it is actually small enough to
evacuate an area rather than a whole country.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 9
On Mar 8, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
Given that I've now made a couple nice power supplies,
maybe I should do some tests of the Morton effect.
I don't have a sphere terminal. Maybe a stainless
steel soup pot will work? :)
--Kyle
A couple hemispherical metal salad bowls might
On Mar 8, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
If during this financial mess we can monitor volcanoes
(which we can do NOTHING about), we can watch the
skies a little better.
Volcano monitoring here in Alaska is pretty important. Volcanic
eruptions affect air traffic routing and
Kyle Mcallister wrote:
If during this financial mess we can monitor volcanoes (which we can
do NOTHING about) . . .
As I wrote repeatedly, we can LOTS about volcanoes. We can't stop
them, of course, but we can prevent them from killing people or
damaging equipment unnecessarily. We can
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
As I wrote repeatedly, we can LOTS about volcanoes.
We can't stop
them, of course, but we can prevent them from
killing people or
damaging equipment unnecessarily. We can mitigate
the danger and
financial loss. Horace Heffner also
--- Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote:
A couple hemispherical metal salad bowls might work
and are not too
pricey at Wal-Mart.
Good idea. I will get a couple of them, split some
vinyl tubing down the side, and wrap the lip to
prevent corona.
Noticed Bill Beatty did some
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:22:23 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
This is not the scale of skywatch program we need. If
people can scream about CO2 emissions, they damn sure
ought to get a bit scared when a rock is discovered
only 1.5 million miles away, heading basically
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mounted the barricade and roared out:
Same with volcanoes as it is with asteroids: we can
save lives if we know ahead of time. If the thing
blows (or enters atmosphere) without
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
Evacuate a city, which is approximately the amount of damage a 1 MT blast
would
do.
One week ahead of time, could they determine with enough accuracy where the
object will strike? Or would they have to say: 'evacuate everyplace from X
west to Y'?
I do not know
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:47:53 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
Evacuate a city, which is approximately the amount of damage a 1 MT blast
would
do.
One week ahead of time, could they determine with enough accuracy where the
object will strike? Or
--- Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote:
Asteroid 2009 DD45 had a 48,000 mile close call
March 2, 2009. What
has not explicitly been said AFAIK is whether or not
that was within
a window that can establish a resonant return,
i.e. a direct hit on
a return fly by. Perhaps it
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:13:34 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
With so much utter trash in The Mighty Hambone
stimulus bill, why is there not some cash for asteroid
detection and defense? We know this is a threat, we
have clear proof of it. Much more so than 'other'
[snip]
I thought it *was* detected by someone paid to do
exactly that?
Not paid very much it seems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siding_Spring_Survey
And someone else tracked it after the discovery by way
of funding provided by The Planetary Society.
This is not the scale of skywatch
The only way we can realistically do anything is if we have technologies
or friends that we don't generally admit to, I hold out no hope for a
mission as in the movie Armageddon or lasers or...
Though with a bit of foresight get Podkletnov of the job and he may be able
to redirect it.
On Mon,
--- John Berry aethe...@gmail.com wrote:
The only way we can realistically do anything is
if we have technologies
or friends that we don't generally admit to, I
hold out no hope for a
mission as in the movie Armageddon or lasers or...
We can do it with nuclear weapons, either a direct
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kyle Mcallister
kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.comwrote:
--- John Berry aethe...@gmail.com wrote:
The only way we can realistically do anything is
if we have technologies
or friends that we don't generally admit to, I
hold out no hope for a
mission as in the
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The physics of it are straight forward and manageable with our
level of technology however the level of readiness would be
fatal.
It would require better
Asteroid 2009 DD45 had a 48,000 mile close call March 2, 2009. What
has not explicitly been said AFAIK is whether or not that was within
a window that can establish a resonant return, i.e. a direct hit on
a return fly by. Perhaps it is too soon to know due to the near
earth gravitational
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