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5. I Believe It Was A Lady On CNN. And I Think It Was On Huff Post.

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 02:29 AM

Feb 2013

Bill Nye seemed frustrated that this lady did not understand. We was trying to explain how alert we have to be and how we have to prepare. I believe his take on the pass by is that the media grossly underplayed the danger of such an object and how really close it will be.

This object is the same size as the meteor that crated meteor crater. I was there about 20 years ago to see it. An object that size hitting a city like Phoenix would vaporize it. I believe the dead range would be 50 miles around.

The laws of physics are ugly. One example of how cruel it is is a skier weighing 180 lbs hitting a tree at 30MPH generates thousands of foot pounds of kinetic energy. The human body just crumbles under such pressure. So a meteor traveling 25 MPS weighing even 2000 lbs is huge.

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Nye The Science Guy Explained And Dumb Dumb TV Reporter Did Not Get It. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 OP

The Earth crossed the point in its orbit that 2012DA14 crosses 15 minutes later. longship Feb 2013 #1

Bill Nye Was Trying To Explain That The Pass Was Dangerously Close. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #3

The way they at times get it is... nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #4

Yup, my BS is in physics, so I know. longship Feb 2013 #6

Your Sister Sounds Interesting - QM Is Woo Woo Science TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #8

Yup. longship Feb 2013 #10

I Sometimes Will Think About What I Am Doing In A Quantum Way TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #12

But all the quantum effects average out above the atomic scale. longship Feb 2013 #14

What channel was that on? You know, some of the stupidest ChisolmTrailDem Feb 2013 #2

I Believe It Was A Lady On CNN. And I Think It Was On Huff Post. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #5

if it was going to hit, would we be able to know exactly where ? JI7 Feb 2013 #13

Science! Science! What is that? burrowowl Feb 2013 #7

We Are Living In A Scary Time. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #9

Scary only because we know shit. longship Feb 2013 #11

Phil Plait is awesome... SidDithers Feb 2013 #16

How do you go from "miss by 15 minutes" to "hundredths of a second different in timing would result muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #15

In 15 minutes the rock will move about 9000 miles, a bit more than diameter of the planet. bemildred Feb 2013 #17