Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

Magic-Mushrooms-Shop.com
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Community > The Pub
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1 | 2 |  [ show all ]
UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies
    #6578926 -

I'm all for having a plan of this sort. There's a lot of shit out there in space and if we don't blow ourselves up in my lifetime it's somewhat likely we'll get smashed pretty good with a chunk of space rock. So from the article on BBC News I read this:

"It is the brainchild of the Association of Space Explorers, a professional body for astronauts and cosmonauts. ...
The association has asked a group of scientists, lawyers, diplomats and insurance experts to draw up the recommendations."

If a giant asteroid is going to collide with Earth why the hell would you need insurance experts? If it doesn't hit or we deflect it, awesome. If not I don't believe having insurance experts around post-impact is going to make us any better off.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6578936 -

More money making tactics...fucking insurance? haha give me a break.

Seriously, if an asteroid was going to hit earth, destroying the planet, we(the common people) would never know about it.

They would try their best at least to keep a lid on it which is TOTAL fucking bullshit, but what can you do

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6578940 -

Well if we do get hit (depending on how bad of course) and peoples property is damaged who do you think is going to be paying for it?


--------------------
m00nshine is currently vacationing in Maui. Rumor has it he got rolled by drunken natives and is currently prostituting himself in order to pay for airfare back to the mainland but he's having trouble juggling a hairon addiction. He won't be back for a long while.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: Spooge]
    #6578948 -

Yeah, I agree, however if its just a small asteroid that only effects a region of the planet insurance companies are going to play a big role in helping people to get back on their feet. :shrug:


--------------------
m00nshine is currently vacationing in Maui. Rumor has it he got rolled by drunken natives and is currently prostituting himself in order to pay for airfare back to the mainland but he's having trouble juggling a hairon addiction. He won't be back for a long while.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
    #6578954 -

I'm pretty sure asteroids currently fall under "acts of god" on most all insurance policies.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
    #6578956 -

in that scenario, true.  But the topic said "doomsday asteroid", so I assumed.

Still, you have to admit it's a money making tactic.  God forbid it just happens and whatever damage is done is fixed and taken care of, free and clear.  I live in never never land though :tongue:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
    #6578957 -

Why wouldn't we bring insurance companies into it? Like mattz said, if repairable damage is done to the planet, people will want their shit back. Meteor insurance is gonna be a hard one to sell until it's actually about to happen, though. :P


--------------------

funky ass music: Planet of Dinosaurs // Rich Whiskey

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6578959 -

yep, some define space debris, asteroids, and such as natural disaster even......

or so i hear. I never really read the fine print on my past policies....


--------------------
--------------------------------

" If the sky were to suddenly open up there would be no law. There would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made, and the people you've touched. If this world were to end there would only be you and him and no-one else. "

..............

"MAN! You know there aint no such thing as left over crack!"


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6578960 -

DNKYD said:
I'm pretty sure asteroids currently fall under "acts of god" on most all insurance policies.


If this is true then thats pretty fucked up. Hopefully thats one thing they're working on.


--------------------
m00nshine is currently vacationing in Maui. Rumor has it he got rolled by drunken natives and is currently prostituting himself in order to pay for airfare back to the mainland but he's having trouble juggling a hairon addiction. He won't be back for a long while.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
    #6579031 -

Actually I just called Progressive and they said they'd cover any damage to my car if an asteroid hit it. I didn't ask about damage from a large asteroid impact that didn't directly hit my car, though.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6579036 -

DNKYD said:
Actually I just called Progressive and they said they'd cover any damage to my car if an asteroid hit it. I didn't ask about damage from a large asteroid impact that didn't directly hit my car, though.


:lol:  Wonder if they get that question asked often.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6579055 -

For every huge asteroid there is a greater likeliness of a slightly smaller asteroid hitting us.

Gravel-sized asteroids hit the earth's surface all the time, with the force of say a shotgun blast. This happens multiple times daily. Earth has formed and become so big because of all the stuff that keeps falling down from space all the time.

Then there are the slighly bigger ones. If you ask around long enough eventually you will speak someone who has witnessed a sudden clap of thunder, heard when strangely there were no clouds at all. These have the force of say 0.1-100kg TNT, comparable to weapons of war

On the other extreme you have extinction level impacts which occur give or take every 100 million years. Those meteors have the power in the order of a million billion kilos of TNT

In between are rocks that are the really bad news, because they can wipe out areas of many square miles, yet occur fairly frequently too.

The last one we know of was the one that exploded over a remote area of Russia in 1908, with the force of 10-20 billion kilos of TNT, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.


------------------------------------------
The Tunguska event was an explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908. The event is sometimes referred to as the Great Siberian Explosion.

The explosion was probably caused by the airburst of an asteroid or comet 5 to 10 kilometers (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. The energy of the blast was later estimated to be between 10 and 20 megatons of TNT, which would be equivalent to Castle Bravo, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated by the US. It felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers (830 sq mi). An overhead satellite view centered at 60°55′N 101°57′E (near ground zero for this event) shows an area of reduced forest density, with a fully visible irregular clearing of somewhat less than one square kilometer in area.

In recent history, the Tunguska event stands out as one of the rare large-scale demonstrations that a full doomsday event is a real possibility for the human race.
------------------------------------------


Imagine 830 square miles of forest completely flattened by a concussive blast!
These kind of rocks would require high power insurance solutions, imagine one falling onto say New York State or into the ocean, causing a massive Tsunami on several continents.

We need a worldwide organisation, say based off the UN, devoted to mapping the skies and getting rid of potential threats from outer space.

If a really big asteroid was headed this way, there is no way it could be covered up. High tech amateur astronomers from all nations would see it coming and spread the news on the Internet. Because of the sheer numbers and sophistication of enthusiasts, it is very well possible that the first sighting of such a rock will be made by a hobby astronomer.


--------------------
Omnicyclion.org
personal empowerment for the world

:nyan: LGBT - Love God Before Tradition :nyan:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: Spooge]
    #6579057 -

Ya know what. I might call back and ask for Bob, the guy that I talked to. I just thought that would be a very awesome commercial for them to do with that John Mackinrow lookin dude.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: Asante]
    #6579087 -

Quote:
On the other extreme you have extinction level impacts which occur give or take every 100 million years. Those meteors have the power in the order of a million billion kilos of TNT



I find such statements from scientists silly in my opinion.

How do we know that it's a standard 100 million years between such asteroids? For all we know, one could be arriving in 5 with another one of same size 20 years behind it.

I think we really don't know when an asteroid of such magnitude will hit, besides seeing it with hubble and giving us time to scramble for solutions.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: Spooge]
    #6579454 -

any one driving through AZ on i-40 i think, has a chance to see the 'asteroid crater' a site of a large asteroid impact thousands of years ago.


--------------------
PEACE

:mushroom2:zippoz:mushroom2:



"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: ZippoZ]
    #6579808 -

Capatalistc nomad said:
any one driving through AZ on i-40 i think, has a chance to see the 'asteroid crater' a site of a large asteroid impact thousands of years ago.


Yeah, the meteor crater in AZ is pretty cool.  And they got a decent visitors center/museum there as well.  That was a fairly small event (not resulting in mass extenction) which occured about 50,000 years ago.  However, an event of that size located anywhere near a modern population center would be devastating for sure!

Now the motherfucker that hit near the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago and wiped out the last of the dinosaurs....that was impressive!!
:smirk:


--------------------
You invented the wheel....You push the motherfucker!!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
    #6579822 -

mattzdope said:
Yeah, I agree, however if its just a small asteroid that only effects a region of the planet insurance companies are going to play a big role in gambling on the odds and lining their pockets with cash


I'm sure they'll be just as eager to pay out as they have been with Katrina. :grin:


--------------------
:redpanda:
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: Asante]
    #6579826 -

I thought that event was caused by Tesla.


--------------------
:redpanda:
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: ZippoZ]
    #6579829 -

Well, its not like 100 million years is exactly the time it takes between impacts. Just a round-about number.

Also, many astronomers who study large asteroids in our solar system say that the planet-devastating impact sized asteroids are much more rare since the one that wiped our the dinosaurs, because as bodies orbit the sun, they hit each other and break into smaller asteroids.

They don't really join together to make bigger asteroids. So while they are floating out there, there are far less than, say, 100 million years ago.


--------------------
"To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: UN to delegate doomsday asteroid policies [Re: DNKYD]
    #6579845 -

I just cant waihttt till 2029. I dont really care what happens, i just cant wait for all the shit to go down. And that ill be alive (hopefully) when  this thing aproaches, fuck yea, Im going to hold such a big fuckin party!:grin::mushroom2::stoned::crazy2:


Apophis

2004 VD17

Fixed the links

They have very low chances of hitting, but VD17 is coming in 2012... and Apophis is going to pass between us and our sats....


--------------------

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. Im not too sure about the former.      -Einstein

Of course the rules need to be enforced, but the goal of law and order should be to create a just society, not to enforce laws. -Unknown

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”  -Stephen Roberts

Edited by ThirdEyeOpening (02/17/07 10:23 PM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1 | 2 |  [ show all ]

Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Community > The Pub
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* UN declares global warming unequivocal, saying abrupt warming & irreversible changes loom
( 1 2 3 4 all )		 VisionsToReality 7,249 66 11/19/07 12:38 PM
by hummermania00
* 1 in 45000 chance of asteroid stike in 2036
( 1 2 all )		 Schwip 2,472 37 02/20/07 05:05 PM
by Colbadol
* An asteroid's coming to hit Earth in a day, what's your last move?
( 1 2 3 all )		 MOTH 3,367 53 01/08/06 05:56 PM
by Konnrade
* Asteroid may smash into the Earth in 2036
( 1 2 all )		 BoneMan 2,052 24 01/06/06 02:14 PM
by MadSeasonAbove
* Asteroid to narrowly miss Earth
( 1 2 all )		 HELLA_TIGHT 4,658 28 07/07/06 05:16 AM
by Asante
* delegalization of LSD in Russia
( 1 2 all )		 Tien 3,674 37 01/31/06 09:39 PM
by Ravus
* Somebody challenge me to a game of Asteroids czexysexy 380 1 05/26/05 12:34 AM
by czexysexy
* Post 10 good 'uns.
( 1 2 all )		 Revelation 4,964 34 08/19/04 01:18 PM
by Revelation

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
1,663 topic views. 3 members, 144 guests and 105 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.027 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 16 queries.