NASA: 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid headed toward Earth

Look up at the sky . . . it's a bird . . . it's a plane . . . it's a freaking asteroid!

The 2002AJ129 asteroid has been classified as a "potentially hazardous" asteroid that will buzz past the Earth (hopefully) on February 4th, honking along at a mere 67,000 mph. That's faster than a speeding bullet and about 15 times faster than our fastest manned aircraft.

This asteroid is huge. It's larger than Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building in Dubai. In Islam, Khalifa means "deputy" "successor," or "steward" and most commonly refers to the leader of a Caliphate such as Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the religious leader of ISIS.

The asteroid is around 0.7 miles wide (1.1 km) and will pass by Earth at a distance of  about 2, 615,128 miles and 15 inches (if calculations are correct) which is considered close in astrophysical terms.

NASA describes any asteroid as being "hazardous" if it comes within 4,600,000 miles from our planet. 

If somehow it hits Earth, the rock would plunge us into a mini-ice age which would destroy the global warming theories and possibly cause Al Gore to commit suicide. The impact alone would cause world temperatures to fall by as much as 8 degrees C, and would likely last several years. The world would become a colder and drier place, unless it hits a Middle East country other than Israel, in which case the world would become more modern on average.

In the worst case scenario, soot would remain in the atmosphere for about 10 years, but NASA does not believe this asteroid will hit the Earth.

In order to prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth, the velocity of the rock must be reduced by less than an inch per second years in advance of the impact. 

NASA is currently working on building a small spacecraft (about the size of NFL player William Perry, aka "The Refrigerator") capable of preventing asteroids from hitting our planet. A test of this system is planned for 20204 with a non-threatening asteroid. Let's just hope NASA doesn't rub it the wrong way and make it a threatening asteroid.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) would use what's known as a kinetic impactor technique, as it strikes the asteroid to shift its orbit.

"As of December 24, there are 17,495 known Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) around our planet; 17,389 are asteroids," according to NASA.

In February 2013, a 62 foot meteor exploded over the skies of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The energy was equivalent to about 500,000 tons of TNT and the meteor injured more than 1,000 people.


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Dallas, Obama and BLM: the day after

It's an extremely sad day once again in America. Five Dallas police officers were gunned down and seven wounded by a group of what appears to be cowardly anarchists who "wanted to kill white people." This apparently planned sniper attack happened during an anti-police brutality protest Thursday.

What irony. 

Predictably, President Obama used his verbal template to denounce the violence, calling the despicable attack a "vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement," omitting details about his very own attack on law enforcement when he took away tactical tools to make their jobs safer.

He also went into his "anti Second Amendment mode."

The President is currently in Poland for the NATO summit. It would be surprising if he returned to the USA since the dead were police. 

I hope I'm wrong.

Obama said "We still don't know all the facts." But since when does he need to know all the facts when it's a Michael Brown or Freddie Gray death?

When the shooting began, the crowd ran away from the gunshots as the police ran toward the danger. I hope the crowd of anti-police protestors take that into account. Very very few cops are bad.

Three suspects were taken into custody and one gunman was killed during the carnage. The suspects were not cooperating, according to officials.

The man who was killed had holed up in a parking garage. He said that he was upset with white people and wanted to kill white people, "especially police officers."

The Dallas Chief of Police David Brown spoke. He said "We don't feel much support, most days.  Let's make today different than most days." 

What is needed right now is for us to come together as a nation and ditch the politics. We need to protect those who protect us: law enforcement. Thus, we need to return to them the tactical tools they need to stay safe against lunatics like Micah Johnson, the dead shooter.

DART officer Brent Thompson, 43 

We need to deal with hate groups like Black Lives Matter and the race baiters like the not-so Rev. Al Sharptongue and his biggest competitor, the hardly Rev. Jessie Jackson.

Black Lives Matter has put out a statement saying that they advocate 'dignity, justice and freedom, not murder,' but that doesn't stop them from chanting "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em up like bacon."

That doesn't sound very dignified or advocate for justice. And what kind of 'freedom' do they advocate? Freedom from the law? It doesn't make sense.

For now, let's pray for the families of the dead officers and try to have a real dialogue with each other and not allow politicians to blow on the coals.


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