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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:14:08 +1100
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On 12/03/2025 2:07 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 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 you

I wouldn't call what you've posted "reasoning". More like scrabbling for 
stuff to post that might look relevant.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney