Right, about 5% light matter and 95% dark matter/energy. I am not a doomsday guy, I just think we should realize what we are experiencing. We have too many phenomenons IMHO. Of course ignorance is bliss and the dinosaurs probably though those big fireballs looked cool.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:14:27 -0800: > Hi, > [snip] > >On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >asteroid - and determined that in the unlikely event it hit something > fairly > >> large in Earth orbit, the asteroid orbit could not be deflected > >> substantially enough to be at risk. > >> > > > >If the mass of an orbiting satellite is sufficient to deflect the incoming > >asteroid, I doubt the asteroid is big enough to do much upon impact. If > >the asteroid is big enough to do much, I doubt the mass of a satellite > >would deflect it even by a small amount. > > > >Eric > > For those interested, if it were to impact the resultant explosion would be > about 1.25 MTon of TNT. > > (About the size of a fairly large nuke.) > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
