Superman Beyond Rants About Fairtax (yes, again :dry:) and Uses Asteroid Metaphor

[Tempest19]

Kalel, that doesn't work. Comically enough according to the experts blowing it up makes it worse. That brings our death faster. Actually wrote a meteor episode (not knowing how soon it was) for my virtual series and once again they blow it up to lessen the damage- then watched the documentary and went "whoah, my episode is completely off target." So my view point: live for today, be adventurous, live life on the edge because when I'm older could be dead... but, hey- if I just live life on the edge, I'll have had a full life.

 

[KALEL114]

It was meant as a joke.

 

[Tempest19]

Kinda noticed when I read it over again and you mentioned drillers a la Armageddon.

 

[Mee]

Wait wait wait, this is about taxes?


LAME.

 

[Carcharodon]

/\ Actually it's going to hit that whole, scientists already have it calculated. It will hit, they're working on a satellite thingy to try to save us though that they've been working on for a long time already. Watched a whole documentary on this.

And don't actually need to "imagine" since a meteor is EXPECTED in REALITY to hit in 2035. So there's no imagining here... that would be like 'imagine we're in a war against terrorists and what will you do win someone wins that war?' there's no imagining, it's only a question of what will you do when it will- and it will- happen...

But, as I said they've been working on a solution for a long time, so hopefully they'll be able to hit it off course.

...so the whole part about this thread being a metaphor for a broken taxation system was lost on you? Or what?

It's just funny that you're so focused on correcting the OP as though the metaphor was meant to be taken literally.

 

[Carcharodon]

Wait wait wait, this is about taxes?


LAME.

Don't tell Tempest.

 

[Tempest19]

well taxation IS lame- meteors is cool and scary. Btw, seriously dude.... "asteroid to hit earth" um, no taxation without representation. come on where's taxes anywhere in that title? false advertising.

All I'm doing is making this thread what people actually come in here about. You have a thread proclaiming asteroids, not taxes- so of course everyone would want to talk asteroids- not taxes.

 

[Carcharodon]

well taxation IS lame- meteors is cool and scary. Btw, seriously dude.... "asteroid to hit earth" um, no taxation without representation. come on where's taxes anywhere in that title? false advertising.

All I'm doing is making this thread what people actually come in here about. You have a thread proclaiming asteroids, not taxes- so of course everyone would want to talk asteroids- not taxes.

Well DUH. woot

 

[Tempest19]

So, let's get back to the topic of the thread (asteroids expected to hit Earth 2040) shall we, rather than the first post?

 

[Carcharodon]

...but not asteroid is expected to hit in 2040.

 

[Tempest19]

Correct. Faulty information. It's expected to strike in 2035 (5 years earlier) and be as big as the one that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth.

 

[Alex The Great]

Get bruce willis

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I propose we built a large, spherical space station that is armed with a laser that is capable of generating enough power to destroy a planet. Not only could it function as a moon once our current one drifts away, but we could destroy this asteroid as well as any other foreign object that threatens us. It'd be a "Death Moon" so to speak.

 

[Alex The Great]

George Lucas just sent his minions on your ass!

 

[ScottyBBadd]

hey i will almost be 60.. jesus christ thanks for reminding me.

59 here. I plan on bieng around.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

George Lucas just sent his minions on your ass!

I said Death Moon, not Death Star. PWNT

 

[Addendum]

Correct. Faulty information. It's expected to strike in 2035 (5 years earlier) and be as big as the one that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth.

Asteroid 99942 Apophis was lowered to Level 0 (The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero. Also applies to small objects such as meteors and bodies that burn up in the atmosphere as well as infrequent meteorite falls that rarely cause damage) [i.e. no hazard] on the Torino Scale, which categorizes the impact hazard of Near Earth Objects, in August of '06, after it passed the "keyhole" for it to strike on 2029. An impact on April 13, 2036 is estimated at 1 in 45,000. An impact in 2037 is estimated as 1 in 12.3 million. According to researchers, there is no longer any specific probability of an Earth impact.

The only Near Earth Object that isn't at Level 0 is Asteroid 1950 DA, which is at Level 1 (A routine discovery in which a pass near the Earth is predicted that poses no unusual level of danger. Current calculations show the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern. New telescopic observations very likely will lead to re-assignment to Level 0.) [i.e. normal)

 

[SuBe]

WOW, Wall Crawler is the only one that understands what the Thread is about. This is NOTHING to do with Asteroids. That has to do with Impending Doom in the Form of our National Debt, and how we need to fix the problem now, instead of waiting until later.

The Asteroid thing is a Metaphor.


Wow. Just, wow.

 

[Addendum]

This is about the fairtax? Talking about giant space boulders make for a more interesting conversation.

And your commercial was lame

 

[SuBe]

This is about the fairtax? Talking about giant space boulders make for a more interesting conversation.

And your commercial was lame

I don't have a Commercial. I'm talking about Change. Don't you think that if there was something that is this bad, coming down the Pike, we all can see it. Shouldn't we do something about it?

 

[Addendum]

Because if the United States doesn't have fairtax, then an asteroid will hit the earth.

We're not the only nation on the planet, so maybe every country should take part in the effort to prevent an asteroid from impacting the earth.

1 nation out of 194 should not be the sole protector from hypothetical hunks of rock, or actual ones.

 

[QueerMike]

If this supposed 'asteroid' is still 30+ years away then we shouldn't have anything to worry about. Unlike the movie Armegeddon, where they only had two weeks, we have 30 years.

I imagine the crudest idea would be to launch the nukes once the 'asteroid' is within 10-15 years of earth. If that doesn't work, I suggest they call George Lucas for the details on tractor beams and death stars.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

If this supposed 'asteroid' is still 30+ years away then we shouldn't have anything to worry about. Unlike the movie Armegeddon, where they only had two weeks, we have 30 years.

I imagine the crudest idea would be to launch the nukes once the 'asteroid' is within 10-15 years of earth. If that doesn't work, I suggest they call George Lucas for the details on tractor beams and death stars.

Good idea.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

http://www.assteroids.com/

Heheh... heh...

 

[Addendum]

The nukes would be crude, but wouldn't be the wisest. Instead of dealing with one object to track, you'd then have thousands of objects to track. Any object that is more than 35 meters across wouldn't burn up in the atmosphere, so then there could be several impacts.

There are other alternatives, such as sending a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid thereby deflecting it (kinetic impact), or using a "gravitational tractor" (essentially a spacecraft's thrusters) to push it away via gravitation.