OT: asteroid in-bound...

Just fyi, in case anyone hadn't heard (like me, only a couple hours ago
:-/ )

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PRESS INFORMATION SHEET:

ONE-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID TO PASS CLOSER THAN THE MOON IN 2028

  http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/pressreleases/1997XF11.html

Produced at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA),
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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You've only got 30 years, gang...

Mk

> What I wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak... wrote:

> ONE-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID TO PASS CLOSER THAN THE MOON IN 2028

Quick! Someone slap a mass driver on that puppy! If we can't divert it, then
we can put into a permanent orbit and mine the puppy to dust.

> What I wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak... wrote:

A quick off the top o' me 'ead analogy: A grain of sand passes between a
grapefruit
and a plum situated 12 metres apart.... I'm worried - not! Get back to
me in 25 years
please ;-).

> --

> Just fyi, in case anyone hadn't heard (like me, only a couple hours ago

Here, what's with the "you" bit? Have you got your own way out planned
already...?. :)

> Just fyi, in case anyone hadn't heard (like me, only a couple hours

They're trying to keep it a secret, but there's this little spaceship
following the asteroid to pick up us believers...

> Jon (GZG)

> At 14:11 3/12/98, Tony Christney wrote:

Well, I'm ready. Got my Nikes, got my black sweats...oi! Can anyone give me
change for a ten? Quarters, preferably. Apparently, the teleporter works like
a phone booth.

> Here, what's with the "you" bit? Have you got your own way out

Where's your towel?

Mk

> Here, what's with the "you" bit? Have you got your own way

> following the asteroid to pick up us believers...

Don't forget your Babel fish.

'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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Mary had a little LAM, It's thrusters all aglow; And everywhere that Mary
went, The 'Mechs were sure to blow.

Jim spake thusly upon matters weighty:

> Well, I'm ready. Got my Nikes, got my black sweats...oi! Can anyone

Wouldn't it be free? As I recall, it looked like an otherwise unremarkable
blue police box with a light on top. And wasn't a long trenchcoat, scarf, and
handfull of jellybabies more appropriate?

*grin*
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What spake thusly upon matters weighty:

> Where's your towel?

Soaked with stuff so you can suck on it if you're hungry and of course
accompanied by an electronic book whose cover says in big letters "Don't
Panic!".....

*g*

> On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:

> What spake thusly upon matters weighty:
Ah, the best five-part trilogy in the Universe. It's supposed to be
Vogons, not an asteroid, but that's close enough, don't you think?

Don't forget the best use of a hitchhiker's towel - wrapped around his
head to protect him from unseen dangers...

At least with the asteroid instead of the Vogons we won't get the poetry,
right?

ObFTGZG: Anyone want to come up with FT stats for the dreaded Vogon Poetry
Transmitter? Or the Electronic Thumb (boarding party aid maybe?)?

So Long, and Thanks For all the Ghoti,

I heard my name out of the darkness... (8-)

> Brian Burger wrote:

Ghoti = Fish

GH as in tough O as in women TI as in motion

Now the question becomes what the hell do I do with this thread for
the archives?  (8-)

BTW - isn't the asteroid suppsoed to pass 60k miles away?  I haven't
read the WWW report; just heard it on the news as I was getting home.

J.

Brian spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> Don't forget the best use of a hitchhiker's towel - wrapped around his

Don't need that if you have Joo Jantra 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses of
course....

> ObFTGZG: Anyone want to come up with FT stats for the dreaded Vogon

I'm thinking the HHGTTG is probably not a universe well suited to translation
into FT.

> (I'm supposed to be typing an assignment up right now - see what

Delinquent. I'm taking a moment out of coding a simulator system to write
this....

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> BTW - isn't the asteroid suppsoed to pass 60k miles away? I haven't

Then go read the WWW release, goofball. And remember this event is still 30
years down the road. They have time to refine their calculations.
;-)

Mk

> Ah, the best five-part trilogy in the Universe. It's supposed to be

Yeah, but guess who's _driving_ the asteroid... ;)

> At 17:20 13/03/98 +1000, you wrote:
Greg Bear or Larry Niven. Pick whichever you think is worse:).

                        TTFN
                                Jon

> Ah, the best five-part trilogy in the Universe. It's supposed to be

The bugs from Starship Troopers? With one of their farts?

JS jsadleratearthlingdotnet

I'm still trying to figure out why the folks waiting for pickup are so
thrilled to hear the ET is FOLLOWING the asteriod. Personally, I'd prefer to
know it was PRECEDING it.

Pickup via wiskbroom and gride?

The_Beast

'Wait! To Serve Man... It's a cook book!'

"Jeremy Sadler" <jsadler@earthling.net> on 03/13/98 09:21:50 AM

Please respond to FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk

To:   FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk

> I'm still trying to figure out why the folks waiting for pickup are so

Play on the events that surrounded the little cult and some crack pretend
astro-dude when Hale-Bopp came streaming through the inner system here.
Pretend-astro dude (who's name I've somehow forgotten ;)  claimed that
there was a spaceship following Hale-Bopp inbound, and he had
photographic evidence of it.

Personally I think he caught the flash of a jump point opening out around
the orbit of Neptune...   ;-)

Mk

And the relevance of this media hype to GZG/ FT is?

> Shld Wulf wrote:

ohh...i just thought of a cool FT scenerio... The evil Kra'vak (the only ones
i can think of that would try this) have decided that
Omega-11 isn't worth the effort to seize with ground troops nad don't
have enough time to go with normal orbital bombardment, so they grab the
nearist asteroid and give it a little push in the right (wrong)
direction...can the scattered elements of the NAC 9th rimward fleet stop them
in time:)

> And the relevance of this media hype to GZG/ FT is?

Probably none, but I (speaking persoanlly) have no problem with the
occasional off-topic chat like this - especially when it is as funny as
this thread has been. Keeps things from getting too heavy and serious.

In a message dated 98-03-13 12:01:24 EST, you write:

<< And the relevance of this media hype to GZG/ FT is?>>

Uhmmm, asteriods as tactical weapons? (So, if I use on in DSII, what does
happen if you get a systems down chit while fireing?:)

Randy

> Tim Jones wrote:

> And the relevance of this media hype to GZG/ FT is?