Can Billy Bob Thornton save us?
"More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one—that we know of—may hit us in the next 30 years.
Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the energy of 65,000 Hiroshima bombs—enough to wipe out a small country or kick up an 800-ft. tsunami."
Well, we are screwed. Not really. Probably. The article, which was published in “Popular Mechanics” in December 2006, goes on to say that it appears as though the asteroid will probably miss the planet by 18,000 miles. That’s still pretty close. The moon is 239,000 miles away. It would be pretty traumatic to lose the moon, as the moon keeps the earth in a stable rotation. As it is now, the moon moves about an inch father away every year. As it does the effect is to make the “wobble” that the earth has as it spins on its axis gets a little bigger.
I don’t know about you, but I hope that the people of this rock called earth that we live on can get along and work out a solution to this problem. Call me a pessimist, but I am not betting on it. If I lived on a Caribbean island like…Curacao I might think about moving away from the coast and into the mountains before 2029. Maybe someplace like New Mexico or Colorado? Hmmmm. Z.C., did you have prior knowledge of this? Friends at NASA?
Well, this fits well with my plans. I love living here in San Diego but this might be another warning to move. Things are still good here, but slowly unraveling. Some people I work with have stated that we are done as a Country. I prefer to think that the Country is OK, but the planet is in trouble. I am not a religious person in any sense of the term, but I do believe that you reap what you sow. What we are sowing right now is a lot of nothing. I mean, you can’t keep picking vegetables from your garden without doing some maintenance and adding beneficial bugs and nutrients, can you? I don’t think we are doing that. That’s not to say that I don’t add pollutants to the environment, but I do what I can to minimize them. I recycle everything I can and support green companies when I can (New Belgium Brewing comes to mind). I don’t drive unless I have to.
What else can we do? I don’t know. I guess do what you can. And keep your eyes on the sky in April 2029. And remember to take your hip boots to work with you in you live anywhere near the coast. Take care, and I’m sorry if I scared the crap out of you. Don’t blame me, blame the asteroid.
Ride your bike!
-Shake
Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the energy of 65,000 Hiroshima bombs—enough to wipe out a small country or kick up an 800-ft. tsunami."
Well, we are screwed. Not really. Probably. The article, which was published in “Popular Mechanics” in December 2006, goes on to say that it appears as though the asteroid will probably miss the planet by 18,000 miles. That’s still pretty close. The moon is 239,000 miles away. It would be pretty traumatic to lose the moon, as the moon keeps the earth in a stable rotation. As it is now, the moon moves about an inch father away every year. As it does the effect is to make the “wobble” that the earth has as it spins on its axis gets a little bigger.
I don’t know about you, but I hope that the people of this rock called earth that we live on can get along and work out a solution to this problem. Call me a pessimist, but I am not betting on it. If I lived on a Caribbean island like…Curacao I might think about moving away from the coast and into the mountains before 2029. Maybe someplace like New Mexico or Colorado? Hmmmm. Z.C., did you have prior knowledge of this? Friends at NASA?
Well, this fits well with my plans. I love living here in San Diego but this might be another warning to move. Things are still good here, but slowly unraveling. Some people I work with have stated that we are done as a Country. I prefer to think that the Country is OK, but the planet is in trouble. I am not a religious person in any sense of the term, but I do believe that you reap what you sow. What we are sowing right now is a lot of nothing. I mean, you can’t keep picking vegetables from your garden without doing some maintenance and adding beneficial bugs and nutrients, can you? I don’t think we are doing that. That’s not to say that I don’t add pollutants to the environment, but I do what I can to minimize them. I recycle everything I can and support green companies when I can (New Belgium Brewing comes to mind). I don’t drive unless I have to.
What else can we do? I don’t know. I guess do what you can. And keep your eyes on the sky in April 2029. And remember to take your hip boots to work with you in you live anywhere near the coast. Take care, and I’m sorry if I scared the crap out of you. Don’t blame me, blame the asteroid.
Ride your bike!
-Shake
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