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death?

as long as it provides a good light show first, i'm happy.

We would not have died unless it was pretty close to us. Apparently it is the same size of the Tukensga (sp) which exploded approximately 100 years ago leveling quite a bit of land.

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75,000 miles is DAMN close astronomically speaking. I wish that someone on Capitol Hill would realize the danger NEO's present and get off thier a$$es about it....

Maybe pics like this will change their mind... this was a densely popluated forest



This is what it looks like almost 100 years later



Call your congressman now

Does anyone actually understand the oxymoron in the phrase "Near Miss"

Example:
Oh look at those two planes going towards eachother
**KABOOM**
Look THEY NEARLY MISSED!

understand sorry im off topic hopefully ill make someone think..
xoom

I highly agree. Guess that's why I like to watch thunder storms...

--JamesT

I have thought about that before.

I remember watching something on Discovery Channel or TLC about some scientist is thinking about building some atomic beam to deflect the astroid. Yeah, right! I wonder how they're about to get that done? Maybe they can plant some huge rocket on one side of the astroid to push it out of the way too while they're at it.

cough*pay attention to Sandman333*cough

funny this nation was bassed of god but who acctually fallows him any more

Me too...

Me 3

Xoom,

D'oh! Should have stated: "Another asteroid near hit." Thanks for pointing out the oxymoron.

An interesting point to ponder is that catastrophic bolide impacts may be the most important limiting factor preventing the evolution of intelligents species in other star systems. We have been pretty lucky that a major impact has not occurred in the last 2 million years as our hominid ancestors became fully human and migrated out of the African grasslands into other parts of the world.