"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." -- (the late) John McCarthy
Or, in Wolfgang Pauli's more exasperated expression: "That's not right. That's not even wrong!" On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:32 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > All of these collisions and near collisions happening so close together > suggest that it is not a coincident. We had better get the message because > the package is in the mail. Do I really believe this? [image: ;-)] > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 3:00 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Should We Send a Team to Rescue Curiosity? > > If this does happen, it will be fortunate, and it will come at an ideal > moment in history. > > The report says this object is 50 km in size and it would release 20 > billion megatons. > > I say this will be fortunate because it will put the fear of God into > the human race, and spur us to take the threat of asteroids seriously. It > comes at an ideal moment because we have spacecraft orbiting Mars, and on > Mars, so I do not think there will be any question we will see the impact, > and measure the approximate size of it. There will be no doubts about it. > If this had happened 50 years ago we might not have noticed. > > - Jed > >
