The biggest threat to humanity, far bigger than global warming/climate change, is about to get bigger, much bigger
A press release from some former NASA astronauts on the current asteroid impact threat to earth, based on data on in-atmosphere detonations since 2001, gleaned from a nuclear weapon detonation detection system has yielded some startling numbers.
The threat is 3 to 10 times higher than previously predicted. The data will be presented at the Seattle Flight Museum, Tuesday April 22, at 6:00pm PDT.
Just last night, another fireball was seen over Russia, caught on a dashcamera. See video.
Now it becomes apparent why this press release is important.
This Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, three former NASA astronauts will present new evidence that our planet has experienced many more large-scale asteroid impacts over the past decade than previously thought… three to ten times more, in fact. A new visualization of data from a nuclear weapons warning network, to be unveiled by B612 Foundation CEO Ed Lu during the evening event at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, shows that “the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a ‘city-killer’ sized asteroid is blind luck.”
Since 2001, 26 atomic-bomb-scale explosions have occurred in remote locations around the world, far from populated areas, made evident by a nuclear weapons test warning network. In a recent press release B612 Foundation CEO Ed Lu states:
“This network has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts. It shows that asteroid impacts are NOT rare—but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought. The fact that none of these asteroid impacts shown in the video was detected in advance is proof that the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a ‘city-killer’ sized asteroid is blind luck. The goal of the B612 Sentinel mission is to find and track asteroids decades before they hit Earth, allowing us to easily deflect them.”
In partnership with Ball Aerospace, the B612 Foundation will build, launch, and operate an infrared space telescope to find and track the hundreds of thousands of threatening asteroids that cannot be tracked with current telescopes. See the mission pager here
Read the press release at:http://b612foundation.org/news/b612-press-conference-on-protecting-earth-from-asteroid-impacts/
h/t to reader “Mac the Knife”.
If this becomes the new scare there is an obvious benefit. Assuming that funding will be switched from the CAGW scam, the money that is wasted on asteriods is better spent as it does not have the green-left communism agenda attached.
You mean…. That it is ‘much worse than we expected’?
Puhlease!
Blind luck has certainly worked darn well for millennia. Just what do we expect climate
bozoser, mental midgets to that’s better than blind luck?Take a look at this picture ‘Asteroid Flybys’
Take a close look at where Earth’s orbit is and where the highest density of object crisscrosses are. Earth is obviously our solar systems trash collector.
For more amusement, fire up Google Earth and then start scanning for circular crater images. If you need a good place to start, start your searches around Sudbury, Canada and it’s near environs.
I’ve looked extensively using Google Earth around USA’s mid-atlantic regions and can hardly locate any craters. When I compare that area to the Sudbury area with pock marks all over the landscape I have to wonder if there are trajectories that make certain areas of Earth more likely to be on the receiving end of space junk.
Enjoy!
An atmosphere thickened by Carbon Dioxide will cause the asteroids to burn up quicker – CO2 saves the planet again!
One of the few things the IPCC did not claim for ‘global warming’ is that it caused more asteroid strikes. Presumably that must have infuriated Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.
The obvious solution is don’t live in Russia.
Ahhh Folks?
Before you all get your knickers in knot and do the chicken dance, may I remind you that there was a Bruce Willis movie in which he and Clint(?) saved the earth from just such a rogue asteroid?
So in the event that such a possible disaster does arise, we have saviors waiting in the wings.
No problemo! Hollywood will save us.
Peter Miller
April 19, 2014 at 8:20 pm
says:
“One of the few things the IPCC did not claim for ‘global warming’ is that it caused more asteroid strikes.”
Don’t bet on it. Ok, it may not necessarily be the IPCC but there actually have been ‘scientific’ (a word with many definitions) studies claiming global warming causes more asteroid strikes. Here’s the reason: Apparently global warming causes a thermal expansion of the atmosphere thus making the Earth and its sky a bigger target for those rocky buggers as the Earth zooms through space. And I promise I am not making that up.
Now, if I told you that global warming would upset the gravitational fields from the black hole at the center of the galaxy, that would be something I would be making up. But, then again, who knows? I’ve actually read theories that claimed global warming would make the whole planet blow up; as in pow, kaboom, ballooey.
“Latitude says:
April 19, 2014 at 4:39 pm
How much space stuff is actually falling on us?”
About 40,000 tons per year. Some ice cores have “space dust” in them that date back 30,000 years or more. So we can safely assume that ~40,000 tons has been falling to earth every year for as long as there have been modern humans living on this rock.
“””””…..James the Elder says:
April 19, 2014 at 5:34 pm
CodeTech says:
April 19, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Darby, compared to Win8, Vista was great.
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Google “Classic Shell”, Makes W8 look like W7 or even XP. Much easier to live with W8 now……”””””
Well after having to set up a new laptop computer with Win-8 on it, and having to do it in a French speaking country, so that someone who cannot speak, could use it to communicate to others, I wouldn’t recommend win-8 even as a means of dissipating electric energy.
I spent almost a week erasing and removing some huge number of so-called “aps”, seems like about 400 of them, before I finally had something like an operating system that worked.
But win- 8 is a product of sheer genius, compared to Bill Gates’ crowning achievement, as a business executive. That work is Micro$oft “Excel”, that evidently was written by a couple of white Orpingtons, tapping on a keyboard with their beaks, in response to being showered with organic rice.
The “discipline”; and I use that term loosely, that acts as a substitute for mathematics, in Excel, is best described as “quaint”. It makes “common core” mathematics, something to lust over.
The common number of about 3.14159265359..is addressed in Excel, as ….PI()….., and to write the simple Cartesian equation for an ellipsoid, one has to write :-
power(x,2) / power(a,2) + power(y,2) / power (b,2) + power(z,2) / power(c,2) = 1
You would think that a couple of chickens, about to be plucked for a 4H club lunch snack, would be inspired to come up with something more intelligent than that.
And Gates has been peddling this packaged garbage for about four decades, and evidently still hasn’t hired anybody who is trained in mathematics.
I think Win-8 was written, to use up M$’s remaining CDs and DVDs, in preparation for their going out of business sale.
Well I repeat what I said on another thread, if a large object coming from the sun, can not be spotted until it is almost on us? THEN no government or maybe some would be stupid enough to,will let the people know that they are likely to die in a few days. Can you imagine the panic?
Runs on banks, food stores, stealing and attacking people. They will only tell us when it misses us. But just wait now for another loony cult to arise like before, and people building shelters.
I told one lady representing my insurance company, after I queried how much my house and contents has risen, and why. “Bushfire, floods and tsunami insurance” Well I said, ok, for the bushfire levy, even though it won’t happen here, floods, I don’t live near the sea or a river. But tsunami, come off it! I live 3,500 ft above sea level, and should that be effected it would have to be a big bleedin’ asteroid to crash in the TASMAN sea, and then non of us would need insurance any more.” She hung up on me, but I argued again, and they reduced my insurance $600 a year.
I totally agree with Charles Nelson – “seriously though…these little fellas have been doing this since for ever. We mustn’t confuse the ubiquity of camera phones etc etc with increasing frequency, we’ll be seeing lots more of this type of thing.”
This just another MMS thing they can grab hold of and run with. Next it will be asteroids cool the planet, probably do if they impact. Look at Russia last year.
Asteroid or comet collision avoidance involves interception and deflection of a sizable object which has been accurately tracked and determined to be on a collision course with the earth. Threat objects are a few kilometers in size and would be deflected by detonation of a nuclear device of a few megatons weighing a few thousand pounds. The most stressing objects driving the rocket delta velocity requirements are comets which have an icy conglomerate structure and undergo unpredictable accelerations due to outgassing when they pass close to the sun. These unpredictable delta velocities can place the comet on a collision course with the earth on the outgoing leg of the comets orbit about the sun. Thus the warning time may be as short as 30 days or so. The velocity requirement starting from low earth orbit is about 60,000 ft/sec but the acceleration requirement is only about 1 ft/sec/sec. Given the large velocity requirement but low acceleration requirement (starting from low earth orbit) this would appear to be a good application of nuclear powered rockets. And, it is interesting to consider how the nuclear rocket power supply could be incorporated into the nuclear device payload. This mission will require not just Rocket Scientists but Nuclear Rocket Scientists!
They are going to do it on voluntary donations, no taxpayer’s money is involved. I like that.
Russia has had another explode recently above Murmansk. I heard an astronomer from our nearby telescope in Cootamundra I think, (near Dubbo anyway, in the Warren bungles, (I am suffering low brain outage at this time) that they were removing grants for this type of observation and warnings against impending near misses. This was quite a few years ago mind you. He said, if a large missile was coming from the sun, we don’t have much time as we only have days we can detect it.
Anyway have a nice Easter folks, my dogs are driving me mad as it is past their meal time, and I am hungry too.
[ “The goal of the B612 Sentinel mission is to find and track asteroids decades before they hit Earth, allowing us to easily deflect them.” ]
[ “The mass of the object was about 10 thousand tons. It struck the atmosphere moving at about 40,000 MPH (more than double the speed of the Space Shuttle).” ]
Where’s Superman when you need him ?? (probably getting Lois Lane to polish his Kryptonite)
We desperately need the IPAD (Intergovern-mental Panel for Asteroid Deflection) operators to plug in their APPS (Absolutely Pi$$ Poor Sh!t) & develop an ‘Al Gore rhythm’ so WE can make some money out of this….(having missed out on the AGW scam).
“Well I repeat what I said on another thread, if a large object coming from the sun, can not be spotted until it is almost on us? THEN no government or maybe some would be stupid enough to,will let the people know that they are likely to die in a few days. Can you imagine the panic?”
Well, a rock 1 km or more in diameter is unlikely because they are rare and because we have found over 90% of them:
” With over 90% of the near-Earth objects larger than one kilometer already discovered, the NEO Program is now focusing on finding 90% of the NEO population larger than 140 meters. In addition to managing the detection and cataloging of Near-Earth objects, the NEO Program office will be responsible for facilitating communications between the astronomical community and the public should any potentially hazardous objects be discovered. ”
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/#purpose
So it was estimated there could be over 1000 space rock over 1 km, but there is a lot bigger than 140 meters.
” How Many Near-Earth Objects Have Been Discovered So Far?
As of April 09, 2014, 10911 Near-Earth objects have been discovered. Some 862 of these NEOs are asteroids with a diameter of approximately 1 kilometer or larger. Also, 1465 of these NEOs have been classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). ”
PHAs are rocks the cross our orbit.
So I so odds favor something like 100 to 200 meter diameter rock, which if hit ocean [likely] will have global effects from Tsunami, but with hours of warning before it hits, would save many lives. It should take more than hour after impact to reach most of area it will effect. But it seems at moment it’s a good possibility such rock will have more than days of warning time.
But if mean 20 to 50 meters- which will destroy a city with unlikely direct hit, seem unlikely we detect it before it impacts. There has been such smaller rocks which have been detected before they hit earth. But unless we track it for days before hand, even then it unlikely one know if it would hit city- one could only know what general region it will hit.
More money-grubbing. If a city has not been wiped out in recorded history by a space rock, it is not likely to happen in the next 100 years. By then, we will have something at hand to deflect the things. Don’t worry about it.
We must act now. Just over a year ago we had this near miss. What if it his Washington? New York? San Fransisco? We must apply the precautionary principle and act now! It’s an insurance policy dontcha know.
http://youtu.be/90Omh7_I8vI
What if one hit the Sahara? Global cooling? It does not have to his a city directly. What if one hit the British Chanel? Tsunami? I don’t know what will happen but we MUST ACT NOW, JUST IN CASE! Just like with global warming.
charles nelson says:
April 19, 2014 at 5:52 pm
What are the chances of a meteorite taking down a commercial jet?
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Zero. A meteorite is already on the ground.
“over 90% of the near-Earth objects larger than one kilometer already discovered”
Curious. How can you count that which you haven’t discovered?
“26 multi-kiloton nuclear-sized explosions since 2001”? Meh. That’s nothing. “Climate science” tells us that we’ve accumulated the equivalent of over 2 billion hiroshima bombs going off on our planet since 1998, thanks to nasty, evil “carbon”.
I had a punnet if cherry’s from Italy.
There were 26 in it ,coincidence I thought.
As that is the date of the day I was born.
I ate the cherries and saved the stones.
Throwing the stones at the back of an orchard I had planted.
Of the 26 stones one flourished and has grow into a young tree.
The tree flowered this year for the first time.
I may get to cherry pick before being extinguished by an large rock from space.