23 April 2014

Duck and cover ain't gonna do it



Rico's friend Kelley forwards this article by Anthony Watts:
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 three to ten times higher than previously predicted. The data will be presented at the Flight Museum in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday, 22 April 2014.
Just last night, another fireball was seen over Russia, caught on a dashcamera. (See the video above.)
Now it becomes apparent why this press release is important.
On Earth Day, Tuesday, 22 April 2014, three former NASA astronauts presented 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 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, twenty-six 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, Ed Lu states:
“This network has detected twenty-six multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts. It shows that asteroid impacts are not rare, but actually three to ten 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.
Read the press release here
Rico says that (assuming you have the time) it's the old story: bend over and kiss your ass goodbye...

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