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| what in H are you doing reading National Geographic? |
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 Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:27 am
National Geographic says that 700 asteroids have been identified by NASA which are big enough to incinerate earth and cause a mass extinction similar to that which eradicated the dinosaurs.
They only identify those whose orbits intersect that of earth.
They estimate there are 300 still unidentified.
internationally, the number of scientists dedicated to preventing this threat are numbered, according to one of them, at "equivalent to two shifts at McDonald's".
do you feel threatened?
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:03 am
Don't even get me started on the things money is being poured into while scientific funding is always being cut. sad
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:12 am
yeh, and this particular funding could keep us all from getting toasted!
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:19 pm
Quote: internationally, the number of scientists dedicated to preventing this threat are numbered, according to one of them, at "equivalent to two shifts at McDonald's".
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:22 pm
as long as the scientists are better trained than the McDonald's employees... sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:12 am
let's hope so!
but even then, the number is only slightly over a dozen.
America devotes more people to renaming fish (seriously) than to saving us from armageddon.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:22 pm
other than old age an asteriod is the natural diasater that's most likely thats to kill you.
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