Comments on: Not as clumsy or random as a nuclear blast http://www.jrganymede.com/2013/02/21/not-as-clumsy-or-random-as-a-nuclear-blast/ We endeavor to give satisfaction Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:40:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Vader http://www.jrganymede.com/2013/02/21/not-as-clumsy-or-random-as-a-nuclear-blast/comment-page-1/#comment-215429 Vader Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:58:01 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=9287#comment-215429 I would not wish to be responsible for the environmental, um, impact report.

]]> By: Bookslinger http://www.jrganymede.com/2013/02/21/not-as-clumsy-or-random-as-a-nuclear-blast/comment-page-1/#comment-215407 Bookslinger Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:33:01 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=9287#comment-215407 And, if the observations, or measurements, or calculations are off …. it could steer an asteroid right into us when it would have otherwise missed us.

I am reminded of a famous syntax error, a semicolon instead of a comma or some such, in one of NASA’s FORTRAN programs from the 1960′s.

NASA and their subcontractors have lost us one Apollo crew, and two shuttle crews. I’d want some international cooperation on this project.

]]> By: Pecos Bill http://www.jrganymede.com/2013/02/21/not-as-clumsy-or-random-as-a-nuclear-blast/comment-page-1/#comment-215361 Pecos Bill Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:46:43 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=9287#comment-215361 Taint American. If’n the deity had meant us hombres to solve the astyroid problem with finickin’ finesse, he warn’t a let us be born under the red, white, ‘n’ blue.

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