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KansDem

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22. How long before they bring up Benghazi?

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:49 PM

Feb 2013

Any bets?
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House committee to hold hearing on asteroid threat [View all] bananas Feb 2013 OP

Just a way this kook can call for space weapons for the military without IDing efhmc Feb 2013 #1

A weapon is a very bad way to solve the problem. longship Feb 2013 #20

Now stop it!!! paleotn Feb 2013 #24

Most of the feasible deflection strategies would make lousy weapons, so no. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #28

Huh? Coyotl Feb 2013 #36

It's one of the standard anti-space lines that gets bandied around DU. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #37

I guess the Birchers don't have a monopoly on paranoid politics. Coyotl Feb 2013 #38

That's just what they want you to think. Posteritatis Feb 2013 #39

To The Honorable Lamar Smith. United States House of Representatives. iandhr Feb 2013 #2

Brilliant! Global warming is killing the planet pscot Feb 2013 #3

Asteroids can kill us suddenly. Global Warming will kill us slowly. Ian David Feb 2013 #6

"We have to wait until our pants are on fire..." KamaAina Feb 2013 #10

Then it's too damn late! paleotn Feb 2013 #25

you can move an asteroid if you have enough warning TrogL Feb 2013 #7

Thank you iandhr Feb 2013 #9

Before that asteroid hits us pscot Feb 2013 #17

Read a book or two and come back when you've got some education on the topic. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #26

Solar sail? Probably not. longship Feb 2013 #29

Not a sail as such. But coat surface of the proto-meteoroid,... TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #33

I'm sure someone said exactly the same thing about the levees in New Orleans. wickerwoman Feb 2013 #13

Alan Grayson is on that committee. bluedigger Feb 2013 #4

Hah! Obama got the asteroids and meteoroids to do this just to further his agenda... Ian David Feb 2013 #5

Better start building that Death Star! Fuddnik Feb 2013 #8

The White House has come out against The Death Star. iandhr Feb 2013 #12

Sounds like a KBR project to me. paleotn Feb 2013 #31

The "House Science Committee" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence" or "conservative thinker" KamaAina Feb 2013 #11

The House SST Committee should first hold a hearing that explores why many of them do not respect... xocet Feb 2013 #14

Is it me, or does Texlahoma... paleotn Feb 2013 #34

10 of the full committee of 39 members are either from Texas or Oklahoma so it is not just you. n/t xocet Feb 2013 #41

The committee is led by a Republican? Earth_First Feb 2013 #15

I propose a game Enrique Feb 2013 #16

Aren't killer asteroids just a theory? lastlib Feb 2013 #18

Not if they're legitimate asteroids Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #19

This Was An Expected Event DallasNE Feb 2013 #21

It's more about the absolute certainy that these *will* do something worse eventually Posteritatis Feb 2013 #30

This Kind Of Stuff Fascinates Me DallasNE Feb 2013 #35

How long before they bring up Benghazi? KansDem Feb 2013 #22

Obviously we need to send Kirok into the temple and make the blue flame come out One_Life_To_Give Feb 2013 #23

OMG!!! ROFL!!! calimary Feb 2013 #40

All I can say is: ReRe Feb 2013 #27

Scare a Republican and money will flow. Kablooie Feb 2013 #32

WHAT?! xxqqqzme Feb 2013 #42