Sat 26 Jan 2008
Missed by That Much…
Posted by anaglyph under Science, Signs
[7] Comments
I guess you all undoubtedly know by now that on January 29th we are not going to be wiped out by Asteroid 2007 TU24. Well, so NASA tells us anyway. As cosmic events go, though, it is a very near thing, with the asteroid skimming the Earth by a mere 1.4 Lunar Distances whisker.
So just how safe should we really feel? The Near Earth Object Program has posted a mugshot of the perp as evidence that they are in full control of the situation:
Oh yeah. That’s convincing. Hands up who would have picked that out in a line-up as an asteroid? Do you all feel re-assured that it’s all scientific-like and these guys really know what they’re doing? With that kind of ‘proof’ you could claim anything:
And what if they did their calculations wrong? Like, for instance using imperial measurements instead of metric?
Nah. It’s NASA! These are egg-brain geniuses! They wouldn’t make a mistake as dumb as that.
Are you suggesting the US Government would mislead the public?
Is it too late to make a reservation on Tom Cruise’s starship to Venus?
the technical term for this discipline is ‘blobology’. the output of a spectrometer (which looks like jaggedy lines to the untrained observer) becomes the music of photons under the loving eye of a spectroscopist.
or so i’m told… i’m with you on these particular blobs… and thanks to a suggestion from nursemyra, i’m enjoying a wander through your Cow-dom on a cold afternoon!
Elvis has left the buiding Asteroid 2007 TU24 has not Scarily this is the first I have heard of it, my TV is Britney 24/7, except for a short break for Heath Ledger’s Death. God Bless America.
That’s not Elvis! It’s obviously LRH.
I didn’t have all that much planned for the end of the month.Maybe post some late wedding presents to overseas friends;nothing important.
Has Australia got its own space program? And have you put a cow on the moon yet? I heard rumors about top men working on it.
of course elvis is alive. why would anyone think otherwise? but he wouldnt live in space; it would be too hard to get pills and make fried peanut butter and banana sammiches.