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GURGLETROUSERS
Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 2643
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:52 pm Post subject: A bit of an odd week! |
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Two events this week that those who eat, sleep, and drink little but political ideology and bias may have ignored. (Can't understand why on a windsurfing forum, a subject they seem oblivious to? Big fish in a small pond displaying their original (Googled) thoughts perhaps?)
1) A large asteroid dubbed 'The Rock', after the Rock of Gibraltar whose size it equalled, while 'clocking on' at over 73,000 m.p.h. passed within a mere one million miles of earth yesterday. Had it struck, it would have been as powerful and destructive as over 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs!
2) A massive ice berg, 150 feet high, (bigger than that which sank the Titanic) , grounded in the shallows off the coast of Newfoundland over Easter weekend. That area is known as Ice Berg Alley. This one was probably in the region of 10,000 years old before breaking away. 'It's the biggest one I've ever seen around here' warbled a delighted mayor (A tourist attraction.)
But a note of caution before the inevitable and intemporate claims of proof positive of coming global warming armageddon. The largest berg EVER recorded was found in 1882 in Baffin Island. That links in with Admiralty records of exploration around the area, at that period, which suggest another of the Arctic cyclic warming episodes.
But hey, history is bunk! (To those who believe it began the day they were born!) |
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9293
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Every dollar we spend on global warming should be diverted to a natural disaster defense fund. Asteroids, comets, geological upheaval, tsunamis, and even UFOS, are a few of the thousands of scenarios that could eventually end us.....Did I mention EMP? Natural or man made. |
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wynsurfer
Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 940
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Just wait till Yellowstone erupts again if you think any of those scenarios are bad! It's only a matter of time.
No amount of money could prepare us for surviving such an event. Perhaps the human race will go the way of the dinosaurs one day.
Although it is impossible to say with 100% certainty weather or not human activity is causing global warming no one can prove that it isn't! |
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cgoudie1
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2597 Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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"weather or not" , that is pretty comical ;*)
-Craig
slinky wrote: | Just wait till Yellowstone erupts again if you think any of those scenarios are bad! It's only a matter of time.
No amount of money could prepare us for surviving such an event. Perhaps the human race will go the way of the dinosaurs one day.
Although it is impossible to say with 100% certainty weather or not human activity is causing global warming no one can prove that it isn't! |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17742 Location: Berkeley, California
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17742 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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nw30
Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6485 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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"Damn, and we just gained control of the weather!" |
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mat-ty
Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 7850
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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5 Hiroshima bombs a second???????? that's 157,680,000 per year.
This is why no one believes these freaks. They over exaggerate EVERYTHING!! |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17742 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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mat-ty wrote: |
5 Hiroshima bombs a second???????? that's 157,680,000 per year.
This is why no one believes these freaks. They over exaggerate EVERYTHING!! |
Ignorance personified. Math scares him |
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9293
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:15 am Post subject: |
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The energy is spread widely.
I wonder what the sun's energy output effecting earth is on a daily basis. Probably thousands of Hiroshima's |
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