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On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, David Roberson wrote:
> Well, at least we will have a ring side seat if one finds it way here.
>
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'jabow...@gmail.com');>>
> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'vortex-l@eskimo.com');>>
> Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 7:04 pm
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Should We Send a Team to Rescue Curiosity?
>
> "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
> <dlrober...@aol.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dlrober...@aol.com');>
> > 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 <jedrothw...@gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'jedrothw...@gmail.com');>>
>> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'vortex-l@eskimo.com');>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
