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John Deaux VII

John Deaux VII

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Lawdawg.sixpack said:
Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand. You set it off, what happens? You burn your hand, right? You close your fist around the same firecracker, and set it off. Your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the rest of your life.
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I remember that from Armageddon, but that rock was the size of Texas.
 
HotMop

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Bulldog Bruce said:
All you deflector advocates. If this is at 2.4% now and keeps changing how can you trust a deflection attempt would make it zero if humans are involved. We need to talk to the Aliens that live in the underwater base about doing the job.

If we can make the calculation to know it absolutely will hit, then I trust we can make the calculation to make it miss.
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Underwater Aliens? Let me be the first to welcome our new overlords.
 
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johnson86-1

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patdog said:
Meh. Space rocks hit Earth every day. That said, if this one does (it won’t) it would probably hit deep ocean & cause no problems. But if it hits land it would suck for the area it hits.
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Or, just hear me out, you could stop being a pessimistic *** hole, agree that it’s very likely going to hit earth, wipe out life as we know it, and therefore agree that there’s no reason for all of us not to go all in on NIL for the next 6 years.
 
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patdog

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johnson86-1 said:
Or, just hear me out, you could stop being a pessimistic *** hole, agree that it’s very likely going to hit earth, wipe out life as we know it, and therefore agree that there’s no reason for all of us not to go all in on NIL for the next 6 years.
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I like the way you think. I’ll cash in all my retirement accounts tomorrow.
 
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Thebulldogcountry1

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patdog said:
If it hits shallower water near the coastline, yeah. Massive wave. But if it hits deep ocean, the wave will dissipate quickly & no harm done. Im probably still getting a few miles away from the coast though.
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patdog said:
Looks like this asteroid is about same size as Tunguska (150-300 feet vs 160-200 for this one). And Tunguska destroyed 830 sq miles of Forest. So yeah, bad. Very bad if it hits a populated area. There would be climate effects & global cooling for a few years. But no nuclear winter.
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That was Tesla’s death ray.**
 
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Tall Dawg

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So, there’s a 97.4% chance it WON’T tattoo earth. I like those odds but don’t let my beautiful menapausal wife see this as she’ll worry about it for the next 7 yrs. 😂🤪🍻
 
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POTUS said:
You may eye roll, but I wouldn’t put it past him. He’s got us driving electric cars and having rockets land back on their launch pads.
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Bank-rolling and planning/doing the actual work are two separate things.
 
OG Goat Holder

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If this thing decides it wants to hit earth, there ain’t a damn thing we can do about it but watch and pray.
 
Ranchdawg

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We Are Doomed Reaction GIF

So you are saying that global warming can take a back seat now?
 
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UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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WilCoDawg said:
Shame on us for not already having a plan in place for these type events.
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Such an event is extremely rare and whatever plan needs to be implemented would need to be quite bespoke to the outcome.

Let's suppose that we end up calculating with >99% chance that this thing will hit Earth and that we cannot deflect it. First thing to do would be to determine where on Earth it is going to hit. Whatever plan we create would depend on that. If we see that it's going to hit in the middle of an ocean far from land, we probably do nothing other than evacuate coasts nearby in case of any tsunami. If it hits remote land (middle of Sahara desert, Middle of Amazon forest), we will have to permanently resettle some people, but it won't be a huge lift. Once we get into the possibility of it hitting a major metropolitan area, that's when we have to make big plans, and the plans would change depending on the country. That would also factor into whether or not we would want to launch a deflection mission.
 
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patdog

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UpTheMiddlex3Punt said:
Such an event is extremely rare and whatever plan needs to be implemented would need to be quite bespoke to the outcome.

Let's suppose that we end up calculating with >99% chance that this thing will hit Earth and that we cannot deflect it. First thing to do would be to determine where on Earth it is going to hit. Whatever plan we create would depend on that. If we see that it's going to hit in the middle of an ocean far from land, we probably do nothing other than evacuate coasts nearby in case of any tsunami. If it hits remote land (middle of Sahara desert, Middle of Amazon forest), we will have to permanently resettle some people, but it won't be a huge lift. Once we get into the possibility of it hitting a major metropolitan area, that's when we have to make big plans, and the plans would change depending on the country. That would also factor into whether or not we would want to launch a deflection mission.
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Projection is if it does hit it would be along path from Pacific Ocean, northern South America, Atlantic Ocean, North Africa, South Asia.
 
mstateglfr

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patdog said:
Projection is if it does hit it would be along path from Pacific Ocean, northern South America, Atlantic Ocean, North Africa, South Asia.
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The predicted path is from the Pacific Ocean, across the continent of South America, across the Atlantic ocean, across the continent of Africa, and then across Asia?

Well at least they narrowed it down and dont think it will hit the Arctic or Antarctic!
 
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mstateglfr said:
The predicted path is from the Pacific Ocean, across the continent of South America, across the Atlantic ocean, across the continent of Africa, and then across Asia?

Well at least they narrowed it down and dont think it will hit the Arctic or Antarctic!
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It's actually a pretty narrow path. And the good news is, a lot of ocean and desert in that path. But if it hits India, God help us.
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If it does impacts Earth good chance it will hit Siberia. Seems like it always has as bullseye.
 
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patdog said:
It's actually a pretty narrow path. And the good news is, a lot of ocean and desert in that path. But if it hits India, God help us.
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GloryDawg said:
If it does impacts Earth good chance it will hit Siberia. Seems like it always has as bullseye.
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Cool, so 2 oceans, 3 continents, and now add basically almost all of the already mentioned 3rd continents instead of just the southern tip.




Its almost like predicting where a rock might hit earth in 7 years is as accurate as Lunardi's Bracketology in December.
 
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patdog

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mstateglfr said:
Cool, so 2 oceans, 3 continents, and now add basically almost all of the already mentioned 3rd continents instead of just the southern tip.




Its almost like predicting where a rock might hit earth in 7 years is as accurate as Lunardi's Bracketology in December.
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Don't be a dubmass. That path eliminates over 99% of the Earth from any chance of being hit. It's long due to earth rotation and uncertainty of exactly when it will hit (this will be narrowed down considerably in the next couple of years.
 
mstateglfr

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patdog said:
Don't be a dubmass. That path eliminates over 99% of the Earth from any chance of being hit. It's long due to earth rotation and uncertainty of exactly when it will hit (this will be narrowed down considerably in the next couple of years.
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Chill. 17ing Siberia was just added, per another poster.

And I am not being a dumbass, I was just making a joke about how the prediction is very wide reaching...which it is.
 
GloryDawg

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mstateglfr said:
Cool, so 2 oceans, 3 continents, and now add basically almost all of the already mentioned 3rd continents instead of just the southern tip.




Its almost like predicting where a rock might hit earth in 7 years is as accurate as Lunardi's Bracketology in December.
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I said Siberia half-jokingly, but it gets hit a lot and the meteors seem to make it to the ground.
 
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I hope I don't know anything about it; I hope it is a surprise. I'm sure it won't be if it does happen, but I'd rather not know.
 
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