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Ooo, you’ve done it now... “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
Well we all wanted the comet... Here it comes and it's solid gold baby! Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
We should hurry up and mine it before china does. Buy it with bit coins and print our title. BTW, what is a quadrillion ? | |||
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An Ass-teroid load. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
1,000,000,000,000,000. (10 to the 15th power.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Drug Dealer |
I thought it was a citizen of Quadrill, a small country in Central Africa. ???  ???When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Serious Question: How can we know the composition of an object so far away? ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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I’m hoping we can get all the gold from it so I can stop hearing those stupid Roslyn Capital and other gold selling commercials! “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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They are all listed in here:  הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Really long dowsing rods - or don't you believe in that stuff? | |||
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The DNC has commissioned Elon Musk to get there first.  If people would mind their own damn business this country would be better off. I owe no one an explanation or an apology for my personal opinion. | |||
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"Another way to determine the composition is to use radar. With planetary radar you send out a radio signal to the asteroid and look at what is reflected back. The radio waves react differently to different materials, for example metals look quite different from rock. This is a relatively new technique" | |||
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Don't panic! I have Glenn Beck and William Devane on speed dial … let me call and see what they say ... ____________________ | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
Useless to bring it to Earth - much more valuable to have metal in orbit - no idea how they'd bring it anywhere near Earth. (But its an excellent idea to identify sources of building materials.) | |||
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| Lead slingin' Parrot Head |
Since childhood I have been interested in space exploration and astronauts...but never more so than after reading this article. If anyone has a space ship and a couple space suits for hire I've got a couple picks and shovels and a gold pan...I think we could crack this nugget. 
IF this asteroid were to impact earth there would be some irony in the method of our destruction. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
You might enjoy reading Robert A. Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones". flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Lead slingin' Parrot Head |
I've read other Heinlein stories but not familiar with The Rolling Stones. Thanks for the recommendation. | |||
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Lost |
Did y'all know that AOC has an asteroid named after her?: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez Unlike its namesake the spacerock is "very stable and has zero chance of destroying the planet". | |||
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It is also confirmed to have a hollow interior which as is heated by the sun, is filled with hot air. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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