Maybe Chicken Little Wasn't Paranoid After All

Socrates II — 7/7/2008 3:06:30 PM (archived)

Maybe Chicken Little Wasn't Paranoid After All

New York Times July 6, 2008

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
has estimated that a Tunguska-size
asteroid (just 90 feet across,
leveling some 800 square miles of
forest in Siberia) will enter
Earth's atmosphere once every 300
years and says there may be 375,000
objects of such size out there. NASA
only tracks potential "civilization
killers" of 1 kilometer (.62 miles)
or...

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100 Years Since the Tunguska Event - Socrates II - 6/27/2008 4:08:38 PM
- A Canadian operated asteroid-hunting satellite should probe the sky in 2010. - Jacob - 6/27/2008 4:25:35 PM
- House passes bill mandating a plan for asteroid warning and deflection - Socrates II - 6/27/2008 4:09:28 PM
  - That is in addition to the George Brown Jnr. Ammendment - E.P. - 7/3/2008 9:15:51 PM
  - Once in 100 years, huh?...The next one will explode over the Pacific. - Jacob - 6/27/2008 4:29:37 PM
    - A Hiroshima size explosion occurs in Earth's atmosphere around once a year. - Lee - 6/28/2008 12:07:11 AM
      - re: A Hiroshima size explosion occurs in Earth's atmosphere around once a year. - a;lskdjf - 3/5/2009 2:18:52 AM
    - And yet, there is more of the surface of the earth that is not Pacific Ocean than is. - alcaray - 6/27/2008 9:35:30 PM
      - A big enough impact in the ocean... - ER - 6/28/2008 3:03:55 PM
        
        But those are _really_ big impacts - dtb - 6/28/2008 10:16:00 PM
        
        Good summation - TB - 6/28/2008 6:50:14 PM
      - The one that zipped over the US in 1972... - Socrates II - 6/28/2008 3:09:11 AM
        
        re: The one that zipped over the US in 1972..it might still trigger a nuclear response . - Andrew - 7/4/2008 4:27:27 PM
        
        And there may be a 'recent' Arabian Tunguska that may have wiped out a merchant city/town. - Jacob - 7/2/2008 4:59:11 PM
        
        Happened in 1991 as well. - Lee - 6/28/2008 5:24:15 AM
        
        Huge Tunguska Explosion Remains Mysterious 100 Years Later - Socrates II - 6/30/2008 7:52:27 PM
        
        The Tunguska Impact - 100 Years Later - Socrates II - 6/30/2008 7:55:11 PM
        
        Acid Rain Traces Support Meteor Theory For 1908 Tunguska Blast - Socrates II - 7/1/2008 2:08:22 PM
        
        Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery - Socrates II - 7/2/2008 3:03:38 PM
        
        Tesla DEATH RAY.............. - carl - 7/2/2008 3:13:53 PM
        
        Scientific American article on the Tunguska Event - Socrates II - 7/3/2008 1:46:11 AM
        
        Meanwhile - 12,900 years ago in America... - Socrates II - 7/3/2008 3:47:40 PM
        
        Yep. - E.P. - 7/3/2008 9:27:27 PM
        
        Maybe Chicken Little Wasn't Paranoid After All - Socrates II - 7/7/2008 3:06:30 PM

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