OK, I’m joking. But for a second there, you wondered, right?
What happens when, in a world taken over by the anti-science right, we take away scientists rights of speech, suppress their right to discuss freely amongst themselves, and even defund the very apparatus for observing objective reality?
A huge chunk of black rock bigger than four city blocks is speeding toward us at more than 30,000 miles an hour. Scientists say the asteroid will miss us, but it will be barely more than 200,000 miles away when it passes Earth at 11:13 p.m. Tuesday, and in cosmic terms that’s whisker close.
NASA and astronomers at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, CA will be tracking the fast-moving object with the center’s 36-inch telescope, as will scientists at other observatories around the world.
The scientists have estimated the possible effect which a clash with an asteroid of this size could cause to the Earth and namely – a 7-magnitude earthquake and a 20-meter tsunami, leaving a 6-kilometer crater.
The asteroid was detected six years ago by Robert S. McMillan, director of the University of Arizona’s Spacewatch project, whose telescopes atop Kitt Peak near Tucson survey the skies nightly for what NASA calls NEOs, or Near Earth Objects.
I wasn’t comparing you to Delingpole …I was suggesting you’re some kind of Delingpologist…reread what I wrote, I’m saying you’re familiar with Delingpole. He’s obviously very important for you 🙂
As for the “abuse of FOI”…every government agency everywhere in the world will always claim every FOI request is an abuse and a fishing expedition. That’s why we should all push for FOI to become a matter of course, instead of providing excuses that will be used against us in the future.
Maurizio, your response to the floods in Genoa tells me all I need to know about you and, I have to say, it makes King Canute seem rational.
Martin – so you’re unfamiliar with history as well? Look in the new york times archive, first mention of a Genoa flood is 1866. Don’t miss what happened in 1970 either.
Btw Martin you should read more about what King Canute said and why.