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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:07:27 +0100
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On 2025-03-11 14:18, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 11/03/2025 11:43 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-03-10 15:28, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> On 10/03/2025 11:52 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> On 2025-03-06 17:44, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>> On 6/03/2025 10:54 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-03-06 04:06, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/03/2025 1:45 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-03-06 03:05, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 6/03/2025 8:28 am, Dave Platt wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> In article <vq8jtq$299g5$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman  <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>> Obviously I refer to objects of a dangerous size.
>>>
>>> And that means that you don't know what you are talking about.
>>>
>>> There's a whole distribution of space junk up there. The bigger they 
>>> are, the more damage they can do when they hit the surface of the earth.
>>>
>>> The historical record - in terms of meteor craters big enough to have 
>>> survived for a few million years - demonstrates that big earth 
>>> grazing asteroids are pretty rare. I imagine that somebody has worked 
>>> out what the distribution is, at least roughly.
>>
>> There is evidence of dangerous "objects" hitting the earth and causing 
>> destruction in the "historic" age.
>>
>> Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
>>
>> We were just fortunate that it hit a non populated area, otherwise it 
>> could have destroyed a city. The explosion was between 3 and 50 megatons.
> 
> You really are a twit. If you had bothered to read all the way through 
> my post, you would have found exactly the same url (so it shows up twice 
> in your post, which is a touch comical).

I did read it, later, and I decided to leave my text, as my reasoning is 
different than yours.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.