Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor

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Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor

E.P. — 11/9/2006 1:16:24 AM (archived)

Their equipment is incapable of detecting them, and their computers are inadequate to the task.

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Planetary Defense - phil - 11/7/2006 11:40:40 PM
- Let me see if I can clarify it for you - E.P. - 11/8/2006 8:11:30 AM
  - Well Strokes Do Effect Memory - ID - 11/8/2006 4:47:23 PM
    - Pale Ink - E.P. - 11/8/2006 5:22:25 PM
    - What medical condition... - alcaray - 11/8/2006 5:14:54 PM
      - You Tell Me - ID - 11/8/2006 7:44:51 PM
        
        as et pointed out, it is communicable. - alcaray - 11/8/2006 10:22:07 PM
        
        Good Honest Answer! - ID - 11/9/2006 1:16:49 AM
        
        re: Good Honest Answer! - alcaray - 11/9/2006 5:01:00 PM
        
        You Mean Like The People That Wanted To Abolish Slavery, Or Apartheid, or Stop The War In Iraq? - Mark Eby - 11/9/2006 6:27:25 PM
        
        Bizarre parallel! - alcaray - 11/9/2006 6:41:21 PM
        
        I invite y'all to take this to flame. - podrock (as moderator) - 11/9/2006 7:31:54 PM
        
        No Thanks, But We'll End It Here - Mark Eby - 11/9/2006 8:59:57 PM
        
        rising temperature - podrock (as moderator) - 11/9/2006 9:28:50 PM
        
        Ok Clear Enough - Mark Eby - 11/9/2006 9:47:07 PM
        
        I completely agree that it does not belong here, and I apologize to all. - alcaray - 11/9/2006 7:39:53 PM
        
        Thanks, alcaray. (n/t) - mod-podrock - 11/10/2006 1:49:25 AM
        
        Once again, Mark - E.P. - 11/8/2006 7:56:17 PM
        
        re: Once again, Mark - David - 11/12/2006 12:49:44 AM
      - I dunno but it's transmissible by the web apparently. (n/t) - et - 11/8/2006 5:52:00 PM
      - Self preservation - E.P. - 11/8/2006 5:45:07 PM
        
        Wasn't directed at you. I guess the shoe fits, though. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/8/2006 5:50:48 PM
- It's a puzzlement. - Bowser - 11/8/2006 5:51:48 AM
  - Cost-benefit - TB - 11/8/2006 5:53:42 PM
    - Something like the AAVSO or ALPO. - ER - 11/8/2006 6:29:20 PM
      - re: Something like the AAVSO or ALPO. - David - 11/12/2006 12:24:21 AM
      - Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - E.P. - 11/9/2006 1:16:24 AM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - David - 11/12/2006 12:10:30 AM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - E.P. - 11/12/2006 3:57:54 PM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - David - 11/12/2006 9:42:36 PM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - E.P. - 11/13/2006 9:27:26 AM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - David - 11/13/2006 9:48:32 PM
        
        re: In general you are wrong. Amateurs have and do detect possible impactors. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/11/2006 4:39:47 AM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - ER - 11/9/2006 3:17:50 AM
        
        re: Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor - E.P. - 11/9/2006 5:50:24 AM
        
        Do your laundry elsewhere. - ER - 11/9/2006 12:38:52 PM
        
        re: "Do your laundry elsewhere" on Flame - Moderator Nick - 11/11/2006 8:36:01 AM
        
        Just washing the mud off - E.P. - 11/9/2006 1:30:02 PM
        
        Polite, please - Moderator Nick - 11/10/2006 12:35:10 AM
        
        As always, they go first - E.P. - 11/10/2006 11:00:51 AM
        
        Astronomy with Small Telescopes - LJK - 11/9/2006 3:47:28 PM
        
        and impactor detection from space - E.P. - 11/9/2006 4:56:27 PM
  - Let me see if I can clarify it for you as well - E.P. - 11/8/2006 8:20:54 AM
    - 2007 Planetary Defense Conference - LJK - 11/8/2006 2:26:40 PM
      - The private sector: I wonder if they'll rent floor space - E.P. - 11/8/2006 5:28:55 PM
        
        Observations of double asteroid stress Arecibo radar's vital role in identifying threats in Earth's vicinity - LJK - 11/15/2006 8:06:29 PM

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