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Mr Stickyfingers said:
...lol!... I knew that but it was a sad and pathetic attempt at a play on words while I was angry... I might just pretend that I never said it methinks... it was around midnight ... some rum and some brain cells missing at the same time... thanks Mud... cheers.
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No worries.......Have a cold one for me .
 
...a little bit of good news for those people that are worried about heavenly bodies hitting the Earth and destroying our precious planet... the asteroid Apophis that many feared would impact with Earth during a close flyby in 2036... well fear no more... (did anyone even know that it had a chance of hitting us at all?)... my guess is that hardly anybody had an inkling...



NASA Rules Out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis
01.10.13


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Asteroid Apophis Asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004. Image credit: UH/IA

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The scientists used updated information obtained by NASA-supported telescopes in 2011 and 2012, as well as new data from the time leading up to Apophis' distant Earth flyby yesterday (Jan. 9).

Discovered in 2004, the asteroid, which is the size of three-and-a-half football fields, gathered the immediate attention of space scientists and the media when initial calculations of its orbit indicated a 2.7 percent possibility of an Earth impact during a close flyby in 2029. Data discovered during a search of old astronomical images provided the additional information required to rule out the 2029 impact scenario, but a remote possibility of one in 2036 remained - until yesterday.

"With the new data provided by the Magdalena Ridge [New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] and the Pan-STARRS [Univ. of Hawaii] optical observatories, along with very recent data provided by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036," said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. "The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. Our interest in asteroid Apophis will essentially be for its scientific interest for the foreseeable future."

The April 13, 2029, flyby of asteroid Apophis will be one for the record books. On that date, Apophis will become the closest flyby of an asteroid of its size when it comes no closer than 19, 400 miles (31,300 kilometers) above Earth's surface.

"But much sooner, a closer approach by a lesser-known asteroid is going to occur in the middle of next month when a 40-meter-sized asteroid, 2012 DA14, flies safely past Earth's surface at about 17,200 miles," said Yeomans. "With new telescopes coming online, the upgrade of existing telescopes and the continued refinement of our orbital determination process, there's never a dull moment working on near-Earth objects."

NASA detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

The Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL manages the technical and scientific activities for NASA's Near-Earth Object Program of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

For more information about asteroids and near-Earth objects, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch Updates about near-Earth objects are also available by following AsteroidWatch on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/asteroidwatch .


DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
[email protected]

Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
[email protected]
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...hmmmm... this quote is a tad bit disturbing though...

"But much sooner, a closer approach by a lesser-known asteroid is going to occur in the middle of next month when a 40-meter-sized asteroid, 2012 DA14, flies safely past Earth's surface at about 17,200 miles," said Yeomans.
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...who the?... what the?... where the?... a mere 17,200 miles?????... I hope that they've done their calculations properly!... it would've been nice to have a lot more notice about it... I mean I'm going on a 10 day cruise in July to Noumea etc... I would've been totally pissed off if the Earth was gone before then!... lol!... cheers.
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...a little bit of good news for those people that are worried about heavenly bodies hitting the Earth and destroying our precious planet... the asteroid Apophis that many feared would impact with Earth during a close flyby in 2036... well fear no more... (did anyone even know that it had a chance of hitting us at all?)... my guess is that hardly anybody had an inkling...






...hmmmm... this quote is a tad bit disturbing though...




...who the?... what the?... where the?... a mere 17,200 miles?????... I hope that they've done their calculations properly!... it would've been nice to have a lot more notice about it... I mean I'm going on a 10 day cruise in July to Noumea etc... I would've been totally pissed off if the Earth was gone before then!... lol!... cheers.
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Well just think if it does happen it's too late to see if you left the gas on at home :D
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...a little bit of good news for those people that are worried about heavenly bodies hitting the Earth and destroying our precious planet... the asteroid Apophis that many feared would impact with Earth during a close flyby in 2036... well fear no more... (did anyone even know that it had a chance of hitting us at all?)... my guess is that hardly anybody had an inkling...
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Yes I knew about it... but then I'm a bit of a science geek...
 
Yep, I'm another of the science geeks or should I say 'I like to know everything that is going on' people. lol
 
Ooooooooo careful, you had better keep away from this one.

And as regards India and religion - no evidence of them turning away from it at all, cows are still more valued than women.
 
OK finding links for this
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/40756.html

and interesting video link on the same topic / story
http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-times/freedom-of-speech-test-case-3689891.html

This is just disgraceful.

Do we live in a democracy or don't we?ahttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/letters/roxon-seeks-to-impose-government-idea-of-goodness/story-fn558imw-1226551404939

This bill starts from the false assumption that discrimination is inherently bad, resulting in the need for many exceptions without which civilised society cannot function and then goes downhill from there. It unjustly selects a list of attributes for those who will be granted protection from the giving of even mild offence while others receive no such protection from even the gravest of intimidations.
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So it's all downhill from here. The government of the day can impose it's view of what is good upon the whole population and curtail any thing they deem offensive or discriminatory.... Wonderful.

Roxon says the bill won't affect people who make "private utterances" but then it's very broad and doesn't say exactly what it protects and what it might prosecute.

What a wonderful government we voted in. "sigh"

Now they want to curb dissenting political opinion.... What next?

I'm quite appalled. Even the test cases named in the articles while bad should not be used to make this kind of thing a law. But then again we have a constitution that has no actual legal guarantee of free speech, nor anything resembling a bill of rights.
 
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ERMAHGERD you guys I dont know if anyone of you have heard this, been fairly quiet, fairly underground stuff, but apparently Lance Armstrong is a drug cheat, yep you heard it here first....
 
[MENTION=29803]mutleyp[/MENTION]: Noooo! Really?

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Argh does anyone else have issues with the animated gifs when using mobiles annoying grrrr. I wish there wasn't so many.
 
eliza said:
Argh does anyone else have issues with the animated gifs when using mobiles annoying grrrr. I wish there wasn't so many.
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If i look via mobile the only problem is the gif won't animate, no other problems
 
el'coopo said:
No, not at all. A gif is a gift that keeps on giving. I love them.
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It's not that I dislike them, it's that they don't load/animate on my phone and make the forum slowwwwww to load. Usually I just avoid going into the threads that are animated gif heavy like the o/t thread when I am on my phone but they are infiltrating every thread.
 
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