Tag Archives: Asteroid

NASA has a plan for preventing asteroid strikes, and it’s going to test it

Posted on July 5, 2017 by The Great One

As people of a certain faith (which shall remain nameless) continue stoning people to death, cutting off women’s clitorises, blowing themselves up, etc., decent, educated people of science work to improve the human condition. Hopefully, science will someday do away … Continue reading →

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A massive asteroid is going to zip past Earth later this month

Posted on April 9, 2017 by The Great One

If one of these rocks collides with Earth, that would more than like be the end of our species. This is how random life is. All of the wars over territory, power, money and of course, all of the religious … Continue reading →

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Signs of alien life? Mysterious star stirs controversy

Posted on October 20, 2015 by The Great One

Skeptics will always disagree, especially the religious fanatics among us who believe that God created us and only us and that we are somehow special, but the universe is too vast to not contain countless other living creatures. And yes, … Continue reading →

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Giant asteroid set to buzz Earth, poses no threat

Posted on January 26, 2015 by The Great One

One of these asteroids is going to make “landfall” one day and ruin the flow of our lives… And while the men and women of science track these monsters and try to figure out how to destroy one (should it … Continue reading →

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Scientists re-create what may be life’s first spark

Posted on December 8, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Associated Press SETH BORENSTEINDecember 8, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. … Continue reading →

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Newfound Asteroid Will Give Earth Super-Close Shave on Sunday

Posted on September 6, 2014 by The Great One

All of the madness going on here on earth; the fighting, the killing… Yet all it takes is one of these giant space rocks to collide with our planet and we are history… That wouldn’t be a very honorable way … Continue reading →

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Scientists crown world heavyweight champion of dinosaurs

Posted on May 9, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – This guy could really throw his weight around. Scientists on Tuesday unveiled body weight estimates for an astounding 426 different dinosaur species using a formula … Continue reading →

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Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact Dwarfed by Earlier Space Rock Crash

Posted on April 11, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Scientists have reconstructed a long-ago asteroid impact that makes the strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago look like a playful chuck on … Continue reading →

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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth’s worst mass extinction

Posted on April 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham March 31, 2014 4:00 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sometimes bad things come in small packages. A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth’s atmosphere triggered a … Continue reading →

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Asteroid Found with Rings! First-of-Its-Kind Discovery Stuns Astronomers

Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Scientists have made a stunning discovery in the outer realm of the solar system — an asteroid with its own set of rings that orbits … Continue reading →

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As scientists watch, distant asteroid disintegrates

Posted on March 7, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Patsy Cline’s classic country song “I Fall to Pieces,” has nothing on this one. Scientists said on Thursday they have observed for the first time … Continue reading →

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April Fools’ Day Asteroid Zips Close by Earth

Posted on April 1, 2012 by The Great One

If a giant asteroid ever strikes Earth it will be curtains for the human race, at least for a very large percentage of the population. Should that happen, all the gods that man has invented and all the prayers prayed … Continue reading →

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New views of giant asteroid Vesta revealed

Posted on December 5, 2011 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… It’s important to note that if as a result of some cosmic event one of these “monster” asteroids should ever lose its present orbit and strike Earth, that would be the end of the human race, as well … Continue reading →

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Truck-Size Asteroid Zips Close by Earth

Posted on June 3, 2011 by The Great One

We humans waste our time with meaningless, nonsensical, supernatural minutia such as fighting over religious ideologies, saying prayer, Jesus, Muhammad, Heaven, Hell, the Rapture, etc., yet all it takes is for one BIG (random) space rock to strike Earth and … Continue reading →

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‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Miss Earth by 4 Million Miles

Posted on September 27, 2010 by The Great One

Four million miles may seem like a great distance, and it is, but considering the vastness of space four million miles is actually quite close. Check out the interesting article… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com Tariq Malik SPACE.com … Continue reading →

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It’s official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

Posted on March 5, 2010 by The Great One

A very interesting and informative article! For those Christian fundamentalists out there who believe the universe is only several thousand years old and that humans shared the planet with dinosaurs, feel free to exit this site now. We wouldn’t want … Continue reading →

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