Here's why NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid

[Cray]

And how many billions millions thousands hundreds tens of people were killed?
All of them speak to my point, they are solving a problem that doesn't exist..

They are looking for solutions to a problem that may or may not come to pass, kinda like wearing seat belts is a precaution to mitigate an accident that may or may not happen.

 

[Cray]

Because a truthful answer will reveal your folly?

Sure Ron, whatever you say

 

[Cosmik Debris]

They are looking for solutions to a problem that may or may not come to pass, kinda like wearing seat belts is a precaution to mitigate an accident that may or may not happen.

But seat belts mitigate the effects of a problem known to exist that has killed people...

 

[Cray]

But seat belts mitigate the effects of a problem known to exist that has killed people...

Yup, clearly an asteroid hitting the earth wouldn't kill a soul, based on the impeccable logic that it's never happened before, Jesus.

 

[RonSwanson]

They are looking for solutions to a problem that may or may not come to pass, kinda like wearing seat belts is a precaution to mitigate an accident that may or may not happen.

OK so you finally admit that the problem does not exist?

 

[RonSwanson]

Yup, clearly an asteroid hitting the earth wouldn't kill a soul, based on the impeccable logic that it's never happened before, Jesus.

If you consider the age of the earth (according to the leftist theories it is billions of years old) it's simple statistics that anyone who understands the basics of actuarial science can work out. Your own argument sounds suspiciously like that of a young earth creationist.

 

[ForceFate]

At the very least you can post a link to a paper where research was done that proves your point. Empirical evidence is clearly not your strong point.

I'm not going to do that. It's not going to happen.

 

[RonSwanson]

I'm not going to do that. It's not going to happen.

I rest my case.

 

[ForceFate]

I rest my case.

Good.

 

[Cray]

If you consider the age of the earth (according to the leftist theories it is billions of years old) it's simple statistics that anyone who understands the basics of actuarial science can work out.

Lol, TIL that the generally accepted age of the earth is a leftist theory...

Recorded history is about five thousand years, homo sapiens have existed for about 300 000 years, an extinction level event that most likely wiped out the dinosaurs happened 66 million years ago. Events of lesser magnitude are predicted to happen more often, please explain using your extensive actuarial knowledge how such an event could never happen again?

 

[Cray]

OK so you finally admit that the problem does not exist?

Do you have full knowledge of every extra planetary object within the solar system, in the Oort cloud and objects that might pass through our solar system?

The problem may or may not exist, you cannot definitively say it doesn't exist based on our current knowledge of the objects in and outside our solar system.

 

[RonSwanson]

Lol, TIL that the generally accepted age of the earth is a leftist theory...

Recorded history is about five thousand years, homo sapiens have existed for about 300 000 years, an extinction level event that most likely wiped out the dinosaurs happened 66 million years ago. Events of lesser magnitude are predicted to happen more often, please explain using your extensive actuarial knowledge how such an event could never happen again?

It's simple, in a nutshell actuarial models use the frequency of an event as a predictor of recurrence. If it hasn't ever occurred in [66 million years | insert your own estimated earth age] then the chances are pretty slim no? But surely you already know that, so you're trolling.

 

[RonSwanson]

Do you have full knowledge of every extra planetary object within the solar system, in the Oort cloud and objects that might pass through our solar system?

No, but you clearly do as a young earth creationist.

 

[Cray]

It's simple, in a nutshell actuarial models use the frequency of an event as a predictor of recurrence. If it hasn't ever occurred in [66 million years | insert your own estimated earth age] then the chances are pretty slim no? But surely you already know that, so you're trolling.

So before you said the problem didn't exist, now you are saying the chances are pretty slim... Moving those goal posts like a champ.

 

[Cray]

No, but you clearly do as a young earth creationist.

Troll confirmed, am done here.

 

[RonSwanson]

So before you said the problem didn't exist, now you are saying the chances are pretty slim... Moving those goal posts like a champ.

Ever heard of hyperbole?

 

[MagNorthDigital]

Woessss! Gaat hy oor sy koppie soos 'n warrelwindjie.

I see someone is having one of those weekends. Well, hope your week goes better.

 

[Geoff.D]

landing on the surface of the moon would have been regarded SciFi many many many millennia ago.

Not many many millennia ago. Just a mere 157 years ago.

Millennia definition: a period or cycle of one thousand years

1865 novel by Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon"

 

[Hamster]

I see someone is having one of those weekends. Well, hope your week goes better.

You know what's funny? I still think you don't get what's going on here

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Yup, clearly an asteroid hitting the earth wouldn't kill a soul, based on the impeccable logic that it's never happened before, Jesus.

The period between car accidents can be measured in seconds. The period between asteroid extinction events is measured in geological eras.

Would you spend big money on a walk in vault you may never need for your small change?