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I have no idea where they get that. I first heard that garbage on the James Dobson radio show back in the mid 1990s.
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"City killer" asteroid misses Earth — and scientists had no idea
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That question has been asked theologically in the past because some argued that if other worlds exist Christ's sacrifice would need to happen over and over again untold times. That he would be too busy dying to have time to do anything else. The response was Do other worlds need to have a redeemer? How can we know if every world had to have Adam, Eve and an apple in their origin? Basically we can't assume that ET necessarily needs to be saved.
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It's like the saying A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.
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If the threat were detected early enough while it is still far away, it is possible that we might be able to deflect it slightly enough to miss the earth. Many of these asteroids are actually in orbit around the sun and we know sometimes years in advance when they will pass close by again.
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If God sends asteroids to destroy the earth, then nothing can be done to stop the destruction.
Even to a non determinist, you would think they would admt God wont permit such a thing against His will.
And as Christians, we should know this earth is marked out for destruction, we look forward to a new heaven and a new earth where there is no more evil. The old ones are dissolved in fire.
2 Peter 3
The Day of the Lord
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be [d]burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
For the world, this destruction comes as a thief in the night so unexpectedly, no warning system is going to work.
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Depends on how early you detect it. The earlier it's detected, the easier it is to change it's orbit to miss earth. If detected early enough, changing it's orbit could be as simple as putting a spacecraft in an appropriate orbit around the asteroid.
Gravity tractor - Wikipedia
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It is better that we didnt know. This site would of been filled with dooms day threads, people would sold all they had to buy the kingdom.....and people would of been laughing at us on Friday.
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It's kind of a mean thing to do to a harmless little water bear, but I'm not so sure it's safe to say that there's life on the moon, now. It's like buying a dozen eggs at the store and thinking you have chickens. It might be technically true, but somewhat misleading.
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The miss distance of this event was extremely close ... about 10% of the Earth-Moon distance, if I recall right. An asteroid of that size could do terrible damage to a city, if we got unlucky and the impact point was in a densely populated area.
Of course, 70% of the Earth's surface is ocean, so that helps. Most likely the impact would be in the sea.
Im sure some people here have seen the impact crater in Arizona. It is impressive. I cant remember the size (estimated) for that meteorite.
In principle, we could intercept and destroy these city-killer asteroids with a rocket armed with a nuclear weapon. However, no such defense is "ready and waiting' at the current time. It would by very difficult to put together that kind of emergency mission ... in just a few days. That is typically the only warning we have against small asteroids - just a few days.
So yes, only God knows the future. But I seem to recall that there have been at least a dozen incidents like this in the last 20 years. There have been quite a few warnings ... happening on our proverbial doorstep. Meanwhile, I am not losing sleep over it. And apparently, neither are the world's leaders.
Of course, 70% of the Earth's surface is ocean, so that helps. Most likely the impact would be in the sea.
Im sure some people here have seen the impact crater in Arizona. It is impressive. I cant remember the size (estimated) for that meteorite.
In principle, we could intercept and destroy these city-killer asteroids with a rocket armed with a nuclear weapon. However, no such defense is "ready and waiting' at the current time. It would by very difficult to put together that kind of emergency mission ... in just a few days. That is typically the only warning we have against small asteroids - just a few days.
So yes, only God knows the future. But I seem to recall that there have been at least a dozen incidents like this in the last 20 years. There have been quite a few warnings ... happening on our proverbial doorstep. Meanwhile, I am not losing sleep over it. And apparently, neither are the world's leaders.
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The article speaks of sending small unmanned ships to deflect the course of the wayward asteroids.
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yeshuaslavejeff
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Yes,
but on the other hand (faith trusting the Creator),
HOW did someone STOP the flight of the SUN across the sky ?
(what is bigger and more difficult to do - affect the SUN, or a teeny tiny asteroid ? )
(the SUN is a few million or billion times as big and massive as an asteroid, right ? )
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Uh huh. You got some small unmanned ships lying around? I seem to have misplaced mine.
How big would these "small" ships have to be? How quickly could they be launched and intercept these asteroids we don't know about until they're on us? How effective would they actually be?
And, of course, the biggie ... how much will they cost? Not only to build but to maintain? (Oops. That asteroid interceptor that's been sitting there for 20 years 'cause we didn't need it seems to have corroded a tinge. It didn't launch when I pushed the button and - yep - we're all dead.) In the meantime, developing new agricultural methods lacked funding and a million kids in the 3rd world starved to death.
I can think of more. Like the terrorist that steals an interceptor, or sabotages one so it hits Russia instead of the asteroid.
Then I also seem to recall that one of the problems with the Shuttle was that the boosters put out so much exhaust they're actually an ozone concern. Can't upset the green lobby.
But hey. I'm just an engineer who listens all day long to people talk about how easy this science stuff is - snap of a finger - when we dummy's can't even seem to properly balance an engine.
Thanks @redleghunter . I needed a good Friday rant.
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It is also God that created the incredible creatures that human beings are and infused them with capacity for reason, creativity, innovation, and ability to learn and develop civilizations and solve problems. We now see through a glass darkly what the ultimate future of humankind will be. Perhaps the final destruction of the Earth will be when our sun inevitably goes nova and destroys its own solar system. That would fit with the imagery of a world destroyed by fire. We are not given to know that but only that we should live our lives so that we are ready whenever it happens.
For now, I think our duties are to love and obey God, live honorably for His glory, be a positive influence in our family, social circles, community, nation, and the world, and appreciate the gifts and abilities that he gave each of us to accomplish that. And I will be properly impressed but not at all surprised when we come to know that some are given gifts and knowledge to divert an incoming planet killing asteroid or comet or whatever heavenly bodies are out there on a crash course with us.
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