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(CNN) - The meteor that wreaked havoc in Russia last week, shattering windows around a 50-acre area and injuring 1,200 people, was not as big as the asteroids that Dr. Bong Wie of Iowa State University is worried about.
He's researching how to stop one of the 400 asteroids scientists have discovered, which have some chance of crashing into Earth and potentially destroying a city.
Wie has gotten NASA's attention with a plan that seems right out of the Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon." He is working on a plan to bury a nuclear bomb into a potentially deadly asteroid and blow it up into tiny pieces:
[1:05] "Our plan is relatively simple. Using a nuclear device and using current spacecraft technology, we will be able to mitigate the impact threat from an asteroid with very short warning time."
Unlike the movie, Dr. Wie wouldn't send up a team of oil rig drillers, opting instead for an unmanned satellite on a rocket. The satellite would split into two parts once arriving at the asteroid; the first would burrow a hole and the second would deliver the nuclear bomb.
Wie says he can adapt already-existing technologies developed for space travel and military uses to make his plan work. With a grant from NASA he is now honing his ideas.
Scientists estimate that they have found only about 10 percent of the small- to medium-sized asteroids that can cause regional devastation, and which are the best candidates for Wie's nuclear plan.
To hear more about Wie's plan and the potential threat from asteroids, listen to our story above.
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I don't believe than life on Earth will end by a killer asteroid
what I do believe is the Humans will wipe out any form of lives including ourselves
in the next 500 years and it will be slow and painful..!!
lets hope I'm wrong even I never been wrong!!
you right difference asteroid in space most important how to defense and find another world after earth 01 another victim of asteroid in past million years...
I call this idea, "Messing with Sasquatch". To me it's the same as opening Pandora's Box, if you destroy one rock, you better be ready for a domino effect, and at the worst, a storm of rocks charging for us as if we taunted a bee hive with our little stick.
We know "very little" of our own environment on this planet, until we reach the center of our own Tootsie roll pop (the core of Earth), and map every square foot of this planet; from our exosphere to the core; and every square foot of the moon and our closest planet Mars, then we will have have learned 0.00000000000000000000001% of our own solar system, and the outcome of blowing a rock up with nuclear fusion.
"If it's not broken, don't fix it…..no…..don't even mess with it you walking monkeys mimicking other animals, taking credit for inventions and inspirations such as the sword and knife, when in fact, the deer and other animals with horns, was the ones who inspired the sword and the knife. Stop messing with Sasquatch and go back to what you was programmed to do; multiply."
EDIT: "... and the outcome of blowing a rock up with nuclear fusion." to ".....and the possible, a best guess, outcome of blowing a rock (meteor) up with nuclear fusion. Each rock as a purpose. See this solar system as a house, and you are the guest. "If you come into my house, you can eat from my kitchen, watch my television, play my game system, take the warmth of my fireplace, enjoy my art on the walls. But DON'T mess with the structure of my home......or I will throw you a-s out""
the real key to unlocking the universe lies with the sun, energy harvested from the sun will one day move humans into the far reaches of space, just look up into the sky at night and what is the one type of thing you see spread throughout the galaxy, stars, little suns (to us) spread so far apart (trillions of miles) yet identical in appearance to their neighbors, the sun can move and when we get some of its surface matter we will make big leaps, too bad the best we could hope for is some of its gases
The threat of an asteroid strike needs to be considered in context of all other credible global threats to humankind on this planet (e.g. Climate change, epidemics, etc.) – Global leaders need to commit money and brain power to tackling these problems in a prioritized manner. You don't know where an asteroid is going to strike – and if it is big enough – it does not matter where it strikes! It is – therefore – everyone's concern. But – we have limited resources – there is no point in focusing effort and money on something that may happen 100,000 years from now - when there is real threat of climate change staring us in the face within the next 20 – 30 years.
If you would like to know what is possible in space go to the NASA website. I would recommend http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html. The Reaction Engines videos are inspiring.
We are not anymore fulls to believe in your develish theory to end this beautiful world just because your
time is up. It is just the fullfilment of the prophecy.
If you plan against, the nature is best of planners as you came from nothing to meet it so leave it there. Please.
if you want your opinion to be accepted as an intelligent contribution to this blog learn to spell
if you aren't smart enough to use a spellcheck (or, horror of horrors actually use a dictionary) you aren't smart enough to offer an opinion
p.s. ordinary grade school grammar would help too
Grammar is more of an education issue rather than a lack of intelligence. However, I would say that it is oftentimes indicative to an individual's intelligence, because a self-interested, intelligent person understands the importance to education. Now I just wasted a minute of my time for no reason; therefore, I am an idiot.
Using nuclear or atomic weapons would have to be used as a last resort. Having weapons of this danger in space would to be a risk to the planet.
There is only one way to fend off an asteroid strike......... and it is definetly Bushmaster assault weapons
If you catch it far enough away you can strap a rocket on it and put it into a different trajectory.
Exactly. Watch any NFL game and you'll discover the the offensive lineman don't tray to knock down an oncoming rucher, they merely work to redirect the opposing player's path. This requires a whole lot less force.
Attempting to blow up an asteroid with a nuke is just stupid and could have disastorous consequences.
Yes, but, these last two meteors were completely unknown. One was noticed only a couple months ago and the Russian one came in without ant warning at all. There would have been no time for a well planned response in either case. The reality is that a nuke is the lightest object with the highest energy per pound known to man. So if it's an issue of deflecting some really massive object coming at us at omg kind of speed, then a nuke would be one of the few tools readily available to use. After all, decades of research and trillions of dollars have gone into building a variety of nuclear devices in a wide
range of well understood types and capacities one or more of which could be tasked to the job using a variety of approaches. Don't count those nukes out, depending on the situation they could be the only useful tool we have.
Oh, that's easy. Superman.
...oh wait.. Superman isn't real. Darn!
Two words: BRUCE WILLIS!
Just adhere to the new American method of problem solving: Blame it on your political opponents then ignore it so it becomes the next guy's problem. If it hits while you're in office, point your finger at your predecessor.
actualy? if one were to get them to the astroid, and get them all aimed in the right direction? and fire them off? the recoil force would slowly move the astroid to a new corse..
though getting them there.. and all pointing the same direction.. would be extreamly hard.
(i know you were trying to be "smart" but the science behind it would actualy work :p
er.. that was a reply.. grr.
was to the chap talking about shooting all the guns in this hillbilly nation or some such 😉
I've been looking at Jessie Ventura's Haarp vids. Some claim it could be used as a deathray, powerful enough to take out a city, perhaps something the size of our moon.
I find it inconceivable that in 2013, noone has ever gone forward with Tesla's work.
I am most probally wrong, but it seems to me, we already have devices, better than what this topic is discussing.
...Wow...some Dr. I can't believe he's suggesting this. If you want to use nukes...detonate one near an astroid...the shock wave mich push it out of the way. Other than that, stay away from nukes. They are worthless. You will NOT blow it to pieces like in the movies. Why not? Because we DON'T live in a movie, sorry. The best way is to alter it's trajectory, and there are plenty of viable options for doing just that.
yea didnt we learn that blowing into smaller pieces will only cause more damage. Then we have thousands of smaller asteroids to potentially do what the one in russia did
His plan is for "small-to-medium-sized asteroids". The goal would be to break them into smaller pieces to mitigate the damage. It wouldn't work for an extinction-sized asteroid.
i know but the one that was over russia was pretty damnn small and look what it did, imagine blowing up a small to medium meteor and having out of the thousand pieces it breaks into at least a dozen the size of the russia one. that would still not be good
A nuclear detonation near an asteroid would do virtually nothing to change its course unless the heat of the detonation resulted in an out-gassing or ejection of material from the asteroid so as to alter its course via conversation of momentum. Hollywood was right to point out that "In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream"; a corollary to this is that nuclear devices produce no appreciable shock wave, merely an ejection of heat in the form of high-energy neutrons. The destructive shock wave and coincident mushroom cloud are all due to the Earth's atmosphere and gravitational field, none of which is present in space.
Humans have demonstrated time and time again that they do not deserve to exist.
Let the asteroid do what asteroids do!
Nuclear blasts in space are not as powerful, there are no molecules to push/vibrate as it's in a vacuum.
Speak for yourself. Just save us the trouble and jump off a cliff now. Let adults deal with this.
I agree! You do not deserve to exist. Please jump off a cliff ASAP and make a video of it so the world can laugh.
Since we exist we deserve to exist. How could billions of years of cosmic effort, physics and evolution be wrong?
Why is this so hard to make???
...just make a ICBM with a Carbon (Diamond) composite head that can penetrate up to 500 feet of rock and then blow up from the inside the asteroid...
DemigodVadik TM
Thank you for saying, essentially, exactly what the amazingly short article already said. How about actually reading an article before posting about it?
Hitting the object by remote control is not as easy to do as it is to imagine.
More to the point, detonating a nuclear device inside the asteroid may not make a difference. If the asteroid is mostly iron, the result could well be nothing more than thermal cracks in the asteroid which may or may not actually split it, and even if the nuclear detonation does split the asteroid, it may simply reassemble itself under gravitational influence while remaining on the same trajectory.
The dynamics of a nuclear detonation in the vacuum of space is not the same as in the atmosphere of Earth. There is no shock wave to speak of and hence no impulse other than what may be achieved by ejection of material because of the heat of the explosion.
Also to consider is the asteroid's rotation. It is not unusual for an asteroid to rotate on all three axes, making a one-two punch maneuver challenging to say the least.
A nuclear explosion in space amounts to nothing more that a small scale release of xray radiation. Hardly the thing you need to break up a large asteroid.
The amount of conventional explosive required to break apart an asteroid would be technically impossible to deliver to the target.
Breaking apart an asteroid that is large enough to cause a MEE (MASS EXTINCTION EVENT) is always preferable as the end result will be complete end of life on Earth if u do not.
With current technology, we have zero defense against asteroids 1km across and larger.
Why is this so hard???
...just make a ICBM with a Carbon (Diamond) composite head that can penetrate up to 500 feet of rock and then blow up from the inside the asteroid...
DemigodVadik TM
From what I've heard, the problem with this whole idea is that we then have a bunch of smaller, yet still devastating, pieces that would hit the Earth and still cause major problems. If we know early enough, they think they could use a laser to vent gas from the asteroid which would throw it off course enough to miss our planet.
I don't buy that theory...not completely. Depending on the size of the original object, If you can break it up into a bunch of pieces small enough (like the size of the meteor that just came into Russia) then that is much more preferable than combining a dozen or more of those smaller size objects into one by leaving it whole, that won't be affected as much by the earth's atmosphere and therefore do much, much more damage. Now; it you're just breaking a massive object (4 miles wide) into a few 1 mile wide objects, then that wouldn't be any good. It all depends on how small the objects you can make out of the bigger one and how big the original object is to begin with.
the most likely option in this case, with huge astroids..
would be either a gravity tractor (something we can do with our current tech. – basicly park a satalite just off the astroid and allow the extra gravity it has to slowly, pull the astroid to a new orbit.)
Another option would be a mass driver, land it on the moon, then cut off chucks of the astroid and fire them off into space. the "recoil" would slowly push the astroid into a new orbital path.
You a nuclear scientist? Even any kind of engineer? Or just talking out of your... ?
Sorry, but that is not true. An atomic explosion in space would be very devastating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion
yep. it would pack a LOT of force. (infact.. most don't know this but a study was done about useing Nuclear bombs to power a space craft.. look up the Orion project. one could truely move a space ship the size of a city..
a nuclear bomb, going off in space will still have a lot of force behind it, it could shatter an astroid. (depending on size) or give enough force to alter the astroids corse.
though really, if we see it in time, it be much safer and simpler to just use a gravity tractor. (park a satalite beside the astroid and allow the added gravity of it to slowly pull the astroid off corse.
Maybe you can us all the GUNS in this in-bred hillbilly country to shoot it away. LOL!
But what if the knucklehead calculating the trajectory gets the calculations wrong? Thinking the nuke, or mirror, or whatever will alter its course to miss the earth, whereas it was going to miss anyway, and indeed the global killer is knocked "onto" course towards earth, then what? "Eh…I had a decimal in the wrong place….my bad"
By "knucklehead" you mean teams of rocket scientists at NASA.
Drill, explode, uncontrolled, etc? If you have the technology to do that, just have the rocket nose-in to the asteroid and re-fire the engines to nudge it off course. Tens of thousands of kph and millions of miles away, it would take barely any force to push it out of a collision trajectory.. Heck, just sitting stationary above the object and allowing gravitational force to pull it out of trajectory would probably work.
lol – what?
Not sure what part made you LOL. Bob is quite correct – given enough warning, meaning the asteroid is suitably far away, one would only have to make a tiny alteration to its trajectory to have a huge effect on the path it would take by the time it got here.
"lol" – is that where you got your physics degree, with a focus on astrophysics? I got mine elswhere.
I'd be worried about the nuclear bomb not detonating. Then we'd have a nuclear asteroid heading towards our planet. Talk about a bad day.
If they could land a drilling device on the asteroid couldn't it be configured to eject the material as it drills down in such a matter to alter the course of the asteroid eliminating the need for nuke?
Space Conkers!
Some travel at 30km per second that's a bullet. You would need to track these as early as possible, I suggest some kind of high velocity rocket harpoon with a (metal composite) space parachute/sail capable of not only taking weight but to slow it. Why destroy something that you can capture? Once captured, it may even be possible to turn a smaller asteroid into some kind of space tugboat fitted with ultra shock absorbent rub rail/tyres to take on the bigger ones.
I was going to say that.
I hope you don't have nut allergies.
Space parachute? Space is a vacuum, there is no friction. You would need to alter its trajectory by either blowing it up (hence the nuke) or landing a probe on it and use fuel to push its trajectory. The later wouldn't be feasible as you would need a hell of a lot of fuel.
Its called a solar sail buddy, and there is such a thing as "Solar Wind" 🙂
We could also build a spaceship that is clear with white outlines and send it into space and award points to the pilots for every big or small asteroid destroyed. We can play 70s sci-fi music in the pilot's cabin.
I don't want to close my eyes! I don't want to fall asleep! Cause I'll miss you baby, and I don't want to miss a thing!
Can someone help me? I though nuclear explosions in space were in possible, because there is no air. Am I wrong?
** impossible (cellphones....)
If that were the case the big bang theory and super nova's are just figments of our imagination.
Space isn't just a void between celestial bodies, it is made up of many things including Hydrogen, helium and molecules of oxygen, dust etc.
Nuclear explosions are not based on fire. They don't require air. The sun is a nuclear (fusion) explosion in space.
Oxygen – not air.
Air isn't needed for a nuclear explosion. Nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs create large amounts of energy by converting matter into energy, so they don't need oxygen – nothing is actually burning. Actually, most explosives don't need air because the oxygen for the explosion is supplied by chemical oxidizers. That's how fishing with dynamite works.
Nuclear explosions are possible, but unlike on Earth a near miss won't cut it. On Earth, much of the damage is caused by a shockwave that propagates through our atmosphere. In space that shockwave won't exist and therefore the primary cause of damage will be radiant energy; probably not enough to destroy most asteroids on a near miss. But all of this assumes the bomb is not in contact with the asteroid when it explodes. If it is in contact, then it can do a lot more damage. Small asteroids like the ones that have been in the news will likely be destroyed. With larger asteroids they can actually make the situation worse.
The Sun would be a nuclear explosions in space. 🙂
I haven't read this whole thread, so apologies if someone already mentioned this, but the first thing I thought about after reading this article was radioactivity. By blasting a rock with a nuclear weapon, we would be creating a huge cloud of highly radioactive space dust and thousands or millions of space rocks of varying sizes. I'd worry about the health effects of earth passing through such a cloud of radioactive dust, and I'd about showers fo radioactive meteors. Even if these metiors burned up in our atmosphere, they'd still leave radiation behind.
It would make more sense to me to assemble and launch a rocket engine from the ISS that could push any threatening asteroud out of its current path.
I don't think you have much to worry about considering we've detonated over 500 nuclear weapons in the atmosphere already. The Earth plowing through the debris from one more won't matter much.
The earth is protected by the magnetosphere. Without it, the radiation from the sun alone would fry all life on this planet. Any radiation from nukes in space would be deflected by the magnetosphere. Ever wonder what the aurora borealis is? I'll give you a hint, its cosmic radiation.
While the magnetic field does protect us from cosmic radiation, that is quite a different thing than radioactive particles and debris, which is what Bubba was referring to. However, as others have noted, the radioactivity would be a negligible concern.
I destroyed thousands of asteroids in Arcades in the 80's so I've got this covered.
blowing up an asteroid has been proven as an ineffective method. it would create a bunch of small meteors instead of one big one- that doesn't solve much. and how would u drill into an asteroid made or iron or nickel? and how do you determine how much explosives to use? this article leaves out so much info. The writer must've just watch Armageddon for the first time.
Easy enough...just get Harry Stamper and AJ up there with Rockhound sitting on the nuclear warhead.
Probably not a good idea to try and blow it up. for one thing, you have to know what the astroid is made of. If it is made of a cluster of rocks and you try and blow it up , it would just come back together again. If it were a solid mass astroid, if you were able to set of a explosion powerful enough to blow it up, then you would have several small astroid peices coming to Earth that could do even more damage. A more realistic idea would be to send a rocket or rockets to the astroid, not to destroy it, but to gently push the astroid out of the way of earth. If you alter the astroids path, even a little, it could be enough to avoid a collision with earth. Or possibly we could send a "solar sail" to attach to the astroid and gently pull it away. The key is to detect the astroid while it is far enough away to actually do something before it is to close.
It has been proven more than once that a bomb will do little or nothing to a meteor of any size and the smaller ones can not be detected until the strike the earth. Trying to bomb one would be extremely difficult at best. First you have to determine its course after you find it. Next you would have to plan the flight and third you would have to figure out how to deliver the payload in a spot that would destroy it. Right now bombing a meteor is like throwing a ladyfinger at a house. The only logical way to deal with one if you have time is to attach a rocket engine and push it off course. That is once you have stabilized it, attached the engine and set the course that would deflect it. Right now we have none of those things available or on the shelf to do the job.
I disagree – if we were to detect it far enough in advance, a nuclear weapon with the force directed in the correct direction would most likely modify the asteroid's trajectory. Even the smallest modification far enough out would most likely cause it to change it's trajectory to miss earth.
Actually, Ph.D. grad student recently won a prize for developing a novel method of redirecting an asteroid-White Paint. A rocket carrying a large 'paint ball' would hit the asteroid. Turning one side white would cause photons of light from the sun to bounce off the asteroid, instead of being absorbed. Now, each photon weighs very, very little, but the Sun puts out trillions per second. And given sufficient time, the asteroid would slowly be pushed into a different orbit. This is not a joke, he won an international physics competition with this idea.
"PAINT IT WHITE"?????? What a pansey!!!! Nuke it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Must we kill everything ?
Yes, the 2nd amendment covers state militia's right to kill asteroids.
Here's an idea: how about getting an crew of oil rig drillers to drill into the asteroid, drop a nuke, and get out before it explodes?
You didn't read or listen to the article did you?
I see what you did there...lol
Have we considered that NO gov't or scientist was able to warn the Russian people about this huge meteor? These scientists are so stupid that they can't detect a huge meteor but they want us to believe they can send an unmanned satellite to bury a nuclear bomb on an asteriod! LOL
It wasn't huge......
That's what she said....BOOM.
You have it backwards. The one the exploded over Russia was "small". It only broke some windows and a couple brick walls. We can't detect these small ones. And there are not worth blowing up either. But larger ones are different, they are easier to see before they get close and will do more damgae than just breaking windows. The REALLY large ones are different agin, they are to big to blow up and would do global scale damage but there are very few of these. It is the mid-size that he is taking about
Mr. Steven Dahl,
Try using the internet to educate yourself instead of ....
There are more people working full time in your local McD's than there are looking for NEO (Near Earth Objects). We spend about $20M yearly on this. Jay-Z spends more on Beyonce. With better radar systems for close range, and more telescopes for longer distance detection, we might have seen that rock. However, it was coming from the direction of the sun, and that makes it very tough due to the sun's glare. That Friday saw THREE episodes: The 49 footer over Russia, the 150 footer that missed us by 17,000 miles, and one that smoked over San Francisco about 10:48 EST. If we do not stop our bickering and look to the skies, we might all go the way of the dinosaurs!!!!!
@Steven Dhal, The object that exploded over Siberia last week was approximately 55 feet long (about the size of an 18 wheeler) not large by any stretch of the imagination. It is very hard to find such objects. Asteroid 2012 DA that passed @ 17,000 miles over the surface of the earth was about 3 times larger (say the size of a medium sized building). We knew about that about 8 or 9 months in advance.
If we gave as much consideration and money to finding these cosmic bullets as we do the Olympics, we'd find a lot more of them. But the various world governments do not see the need to spend the money that way and so we act surprised when we get hit.
It's only a matter of time before a sizeable rock hits the earth and does major damage. I only hope we find them and fomulate a working plan to alter it's trajectory before it hits.
This is complete b u l l $ H ! T ! The first part "burrows" a hole" In a , perhaps, nickel-iron asteroid? You'ld have to launch a multi-ton, hardened, special-alloy widget like what they shoot form an Abrams tank, only feet in diameter, tens of feet in lenght, and tons or tens of tons in mass, to "burrow a hole". I sure wish they let real technologists write this stuff, instead of the ball-scratchin' tools they have now.
shattering windows around a 50-acre area , lol. Who the hell writes these? Darn thing shattered windows 30 miles in every direction from the explosion 25 miles up.
I wondered when I read that. 50 acres just isn't that big... you could walk from one corner to the opposite in 10 minutes.
Have they considered forecasting the trajectory of the asteroid that would possibly destroy a city and make preparations to determine where could the impact occur and how to mitigate losses if it gets to impact the earth? It's always good to have a plan C if B doesn't work and A's nowhere close to being possibly executed. I think those type of questions are what we have to worry about, and start acting on them.... instead of engaging in political, religious or personal famous gratification tiring old school vendetta.
Yes. They always do that but as it turns out never once so far has an impact been predicted. But yes one of the first things one does after discovering a new object is determine it's orbit and then watch it and refine the orbit.
Maybe they shouldn't put cities in spots where asteroids could land! What were these people thinking!
Blowing up the asteroid with a nuclear device has one negative which Dr. Wie doesn't address: public paranoia about launching nuclear materials into space. Remember the vocal protests just about launching exploratory satellites which use small nuclear sources for power? The public won't stand for launching an entire nuclear weapon into space. One might argue that the public would go for it if in imminent danger of an asteroid strike; but the best place to have a device such as Dr. Wie envisions would already be in space, long before it is needed. And, of course, Congress would have to approve and those guys are demonstrably ignorant. There is even a guy on the House Science and Technology Committee who has stated publicly that the Earth is only 6000 years old. Too much of an uphill battle to deal with those twits, who would only pull their heads out if it were the absolute last minute. Far too late to deal with a dangerous asteroid.
I think a better option would be to develop and launch automated satellite fuel factories. These would be designed to mine the asteroid materials for the simple ingredients needed to make rocket fuel – hydrogen and oxygen – which are abundant in most asteroids. Design the self-fueling rocket factories to land on an asteroid years in advance of when it might be a threat. It manufactures its own rocket fuel and then ignites, slowly but steadily changing the trajectory of the asteroid until it will no longer be a future threat. Better yet, change the trajectories enough that the asteroids can be parked into easy to reach but non-threatening orbits where they can then be mined for things like rare platinum group metals which are also found in asteroids.
Yes make up a public paranoia with launching nuclear devices into space. It doesn't exist.
This is so absurd to even read does the guy suggesting this know that these asteroids travel at speeds 8 times the speed of a bullet. PLEASE tell me how you are going to get your little drilling machine up to that velocity with such precision that it can latch onto the asteroid
How fast do you think Mars is moving, or the moon. Both have had launders on them. Yes you have to match the speed perfectly. There are current and planned asteroid missions and landings already. So your objection has been proven wrong by actual experience. Yes it is hard to do but has been done already several times.
It's really very simple. We just need faster bullets... then it doesn't sound nearly as daunting.
You do know rockets travel faster than bullets right?
Wouldn't using a nuclear weapon against a killer asteroid just break it up into smaller, but still big enough large chunks that would only enlarge the problem of fragments to still crash onto the surface of the Earth and could still cause extensive damage?
The hope would be that the smaller pieces would have a large dispersement pattern, and those would most burn up in the atmosphere (If not missing the planet altogether). Yes, it is possible that the resulting pieces would each be big enough to cause significant damage, but many smaller hits would be much less devastating than one massive impact.
Bingo! Absolutely correct, according to the Science channel. If we blow up an asteroid relatively close to the Earth, the damage caused by the many thousands of smaller pieces would be far worse. As proposed by the scientists on the program, it would be far better to launch a large mirror to the asteroid. While matching its speed it can reflect sunlight onto the rock. At the extreme heat the mirrored light would create, parts of the rock would burn off and the inertia created would alter the trajectory. The farther out from Earth that this is done, we would only have to alter that trajectory a small amount for its course to change enough and miss the Earth. Gotta love the Science Channel
FOR F*s sake can we have one story about a meteor that doesn't reference F*ing Armageddon or Bruce Willis?
All you have to know is they "think" they know how to accomplish this feat, they do not know with any degree of certainty that they CAN stop one of these things from hitting earth. And even then, it depends on the size of the object. If it is too big, their plan won't work either.
I'd rather have them "think" and try than do nothing.
As it turns out the "nuke option" is only good for the mid size asteroids. They would have little effect of the larger new and are not needed for the smallest ones. But, also as it turnes out the mid size one far outnumber the huge ones, so the idea works for most cases.
The real problem is even a big Nuke does not make the asteroid disappear. All it does is turn a big one into a bunch of small ones, so you'd get many broken windows but hopefully no missing city. After the explosion the bits of rock will have totally unpredictable paths but at least each bit os smaller.
For the skeptics that say there is no difference between one big rock and the same mass of smaller ones hitting the earth, that is mostly true – if it would happen that way. Consider, however, the fact that only a very slight change in velocity would make an object completely miss the planet. While the average trajectory of the little rocks is the same as the original, almost none of them still possess that trajectory. Therefore, the remains of the asteroid mostly miss us, although the debris now has a much larger chance of taking out a satellite or two.
Smaller pieces would burn up in our atmosphere where a big one would get through and do damage.
It wouldn't take much to nudge these smaller objects into a different path. Why not just send a high powered rocket up and push the object just enough to change its path? An explosion would fragment the object and send thousands of particles back at us.
If it was a huge object like moon sized, no nuclear blast(s) would do anything to help us.
We could fight back with that one thing that is even bigger – Donald Trump's ego.
The problem with this idea is that you would need a very large amount of fuel in order to alter the path of an asteroid of the size being discussed. Simply getting that amount of fuel into orbit, let alone out of our orbit entirely to set up on an incoming asteroid would be extremely difficult. That's why most of the time when you hear about asteroid diversion policies most of them utilize things like early detection and application of solar sails or reflective painting on the asteroids surface to let solar winds effect the change in momentum necessary to cause the rock to miss us. Of course these options wouldn't be feasible last minute, so we may need to rely on the extremely high energy/mass output of nuclear devices to divert these objects.
I wonder how Dr Bong came up with that idea?
The idea is old. It is his delivery method that is of interest.
Maybe Dr Bong can deliver one of them there bombs for my husbands ASSteriods. hahhahaaa
Huh. I would have expected that since its still the same mass that breaking it into pieces would not help. If it was anyone but nasa Id be mocking the idea.
Oops. How did I misread that. Its just some guy.
It makes an incredible difference. If I hit you with a ton of feathers one at a time or I drop a ton of feathers on you all at once you would notice the difference.
A whole bunch of smaller rocks entering the atmosphere is called a meteor shower and is quite pretty. One big one can destroy a city. Not pretty at all.
The smaller fragments would be more likely to burn up or burst rather than remain intatc as a complete object. So they might scare us a little like the one in Russia but they wont kill anyone.
Yes the same mass, but much smaller mass the surface area ratio. Think of the best case a 100 meter diameter rock is reduced to sand and ALL of that sand hits the Earth. The sand would burn up and cause nothing worse than a fire works show. The same mass in one rock would make a crater. Likely a nuked asteroid would have its piece fly off in all directions and only some would hit the Earth
This plan would only work for smaller asteroids and the not the big ones capable of killing the planet.
Yep, that is why they said that in the article.
Ohhhh good.....blow up an asteroid with a nuclear bomb...that way we don't get hit with one big rock but a whole pile of smaller rocks that spread the devastation over a much wider area and with nuclear contamination too ! This idea was proposed long ago and dismissed because of the varying types of asteroids from stoney to ruble pile. The good doctor has been watching too many sci-fi movies. If one is discovered late in the game the best way is deflection by detonation close to the asteroid or at least aim it where it will cause the least damage or the greater good. Hey Taliban...if you see American forces leaving quickly....worry.
You do understand that a whole lot of little rocks are FAR less dangerous than 1 or 2 big ones right? I big one is called a bomb, a bunch of little ones are called a meteor shower.
This idea is certainly a little crazy, but it does have a few potential merits. (1) If done correctly, it could alter the course of the remaining parts, forcing them to miss the planet. (2) Breaking a big asteroid into pieces will increase its surface area, thereby increasing the amount burned up in the atmosphere. The smaller pieces won't even impact. If you can successfully break it into lots of little pieces, there's the chance of avoiding impact. But even with impact, several smaller meteors will likely cause less damage than one giant one. Still, there are probably better ways to make it miss us.
Your comment illustrates why we need to leave room for some rocks to get through.
The Bible in Revelations warns us of a huge Asteroid that will hit earth during the Great Tribulation period that is coming........Turn from sin and Trust in Jesus today...........He will come into your heart if you sincerely ask Him, by giving you the Holy Spirit and Eternal Life..
.........Revelation8: 8-11........8 The second angel blew his trumpet. Then something that looked like a big mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. And a third of the sea became blood. 9 And a third of the created beings in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
Stop reading the science articles on CNN and go back to the comic book section.
plumbine, you sound just like a terrorist
I have an idea.... you can pray for god to somehow change physics and divert the asteroid and i will work with the scientists to eliminate the threat. I wonder which one has a higher success rate.
The bible is a silly book of fairy-tales.
And lo, a book of fantasy was given to men, to control the weak minded, and that book shall be called "the Bible" and so enchanted will those of small mind be, that they will comment on the web with meaningless quotes that the pope doth make up to scare those he would someday wish to molest. Grabby grabby eeek!
LOL! Grabby grabby EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
This shows how little you know of the bible and its origins and all of its thousands of manuscripts and how that the Bible is regarded as the best historical document for finding lost ancient civilizations. Lost and defunct rivers described in the Bible have been found. The Middle East as the cradle of life. You can dispute all you want, but that is because you don't believe in anything, except what you see now and yet we still don't know what dark matter is, what keeps atoms together and what keeps the universe in constant and yet somehow you believe that these are real. It is called Faith.
No, it is called scientific research. Mankind is still in its infancy in understanding the universe. Gravity is still called the Theory of Gravity because maybe someplace in the universe it does not hold true. It's people like you with a limited understanding of what is possible, even though we cannot understand it yet, that immediately turn to god for answers. A being made up by man to quell his insecurities and has no evidence of his existence.
All of Relevations past ch.3 is not literal in meaning. A third in the Bible is relative to a portion of something. People pick and choose what they want to be literal and what they don't want to be literal and thus you have certain people being the anti-Christ and then when they pass away or fade away, then they go on the next person. People need to stop looking for future signs of destruction and just look to God who is salvation.
Whenever my asteroids flare up I make a mess outta the toilet seat.
Blood or stool?
Certainly a good thing to look at.
I just read a funny book about an asteroid heading toward earth and how people deal with it, it's called THE MYOSHI EFFECT. Reminded me of what just happened.


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When I was pregnant last year, my oldest daughter (age 10 at the time) decided she wanted to learn how to cook some meals on her own. She figured with a new baby in the house, I might need some help in the kitchen. (She was right!) We decided to practice a few slow cooker meals that she could assemble and serve on her own for dinner. And these slow cooker lentil sloppy joes are the perfect recipe to start with. With no hot oven or burner to worry about, she could confidently fix our family dinner all on her own. Awesome, right?
My girls have surprised me with their love for lentils. Teach your kids how to make this meal, and maybe they will love lentils, too!
Slow Cooker Lentil Sloppy Joes
- 1 cup dried brown or green lentils
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
- 28-oz can crushed tomatoes or diced tomatoes
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1/2 yellow onion, chopped fine
- 3 Tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 Tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 1/2 teaspoons oregano
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika (smoked paprika is delicious in this)
- 1 Tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- dash of black pepper
Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker. Cook on low for 7-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.
This lentil sloppy joe recipe is super-easy for kids to assemble. Just dump everything in the slow cooker, give it a stir, and turn it on. The only part my girls need help with is dicing the onion. (I try to keep a stash of diced onion in the freezer for times just like this.) They get a good amount of measuring practice when making this, too.
My girls would rather not have chunks of tomato in their sloppy joes, so we usually use crushed tomatoes. If all I have on hand is a can of whole plum tomatoes, I just pulse them in the food processor until crushed.
We like to eat our lentil sloppy joes on toasted, whole wheat hamburger buns. When it's dinnertime, my girls can toast the buns and carefully scoop the hot sloppy joe mixture onto our plates. They love to top theirs with a generous pile of shredded cheese, and sour cream makes a delicious topping as well.
This meal reheats well, and might even be more delicious the next day. It is also a great freezer meal – I just move it to the fridge in the morning, then gently reheat on the stove at dinnertime.
We recently tried using some leftover lentil sloppy joes as a lettuce wrap filling. Pretty tasty! Depending on how saucy your mixture is, you might want to use a slotted spoon when filling the lettuce cups.
The whole family loves this recipe for slow cooker lentil sloppy joes. They are flavorful, but mild, with a touch of sweetness. If you are looking to add a simple, kid-friendly vegetarian meal to your repertoire, I highly recommend giving this recipe a try!
Happy cooking with your kiddos!
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More Slow Cooker meals families will love!
Slow Cooker Butternut Squash and Apple Soup – perfect for a cold winter day, or for a day you might be gone and need a meal you can set and forget. This is such a tasty soup the whole family will love!
6 Slow Cooker Meals for Fall – any one of these recipes would be perfect to make with your kids. Just as the weather is starting to turn chilly, these recipes will warm you up!
Easy Slow Cooker Pork Roast – this is for sure a recipe you can set and forget, but you'll come out with such a delicious pork dinner everyone will love!

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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E17122-05
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The ZSPELL option holds the default text that is used for representing numeric zero values in output produced by the HEADING, REPORT, and ROW commands.
Data Type
ZSPELL = {'text'|'OFF'}
The spelling to use as the default spelling for numeric zero values. When you specify an expression rather than a text literal, you can omit the single quotes.
(Default) Shows a zero (0) with the appropriate number of decimal places (determined by a DECIMAL attribute) for each numeric zero value.
Usage Notes
Assigning Zero Values
ZSPELL affects output only; it does not affect the way you assign a zero value. For example, even when you have set ZSPELL to
NONE, you still assign a zero value as follows.
var1 = 0
Showing Decimal Places
The default of OFF means that a zero value is shown as 0 (zero), with the number of decimal places indicated by a DECIMAL attribute (for example,
0.00). When you set ZSPELL to the text character
0, zero values are shown as a
0 with no decimal places, regardless of any DECIMAL specification.
Effect of ZSPELL on Values Close to Zero
When your output includes a small number, such as
0.004, the number of decimal places shown affects whether ZSPELL treats the number as zero. See Example 5-119, "Showing Very Small Numbers".
Example 5-118 Showing Zero Values as NONE
This example changes the value of ZSPELL, so that a zero value in the DECIMAL variable
testvar is shown as NONE in report output. When ZSPELL is set to its default value of
OFF, the Oracle OLAP statements
testvar = 0.00 ROW testvar
produce the following output.
In contrast, these OLAP DML statements
ZSPELL = 'NONE' ROW testvar
produce the following output.
Example 5-119 Showing Very Small Numbers
This example illustrates how the number of decimal places shown in output affects whether ZSPELL treats very small numbers as zeros. When ZSPELL is set to its default value of
OFF, these OLAP DML statements
ZSPELL = 'OFF' testvar = 0.004 ROW DECIMAL 3 testvar
produce the following output.
The following statements set ZSPELL to
NONE and specify two decimal places for the output.
ZSPELL = 'NONE' ROW DECIMAL 2 testvar
These statements produce the following output.
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ROW DECIMAL 3 testvar
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All About Polling - Introduction
"It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Winston Churchill was describing Russia, but many people probably think his observation applies equally well to public opinion polls. It seems to defy common sense that anyone could discover what 300 million Americans are thinking by interviewing just 1,500 people. And yet, somehow, public opinion polls seem to do just that.
This discussion is intended for those who still find opinion polls mysterious, enigmatic, or puzzling violations of common sense. The objective is to explain how polls work and why, so that the reader will be a more informed and discerning consumer of polling data. The focus of the explanations is on how to understand opinion polls, not on how to conduct them.
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A Brief History of Polling
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Efficient locale-sensitive support for lazy text I/O.
- readFile :: FilePath -> IO Text
- writeFile :: FilePath -> Text -> IO ()
- appendFile :: FilePath -> Text -> IO ()
- hGetContents :: Handle -> IO Text
- hGetLine :: Handle -> IO Text
- hPutStr :: Handle -> Text -> IO ()
- hPutStrLn :: Handle -> Text -> IO ()
- interact :: (Text -> Text) -> IO ()
- getContents :: IO Text
- getLine :: IO Text
- putStr :: Text -> IO ()
- putStrLn :: Text -> IO ()
Locale support
Note: The behaviour of functions in this module depends on the version of GHC you are using.
Beginning with GHC 6.12, text I/O is performed using the system or handle's current locale and line ending conventions.
Under GHC 6.10 and earlier, the system I/O libraries /do not support locale-sensitive I\O or line ending conversion. On these versions of GHC, functions in this library all use UTF-8. What does this mean in practice?
- All data that is read will be decoded as UTF-8.
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- On both reading and writing, the platform's native newline conversion is performed.
If you must use a non-UTF-8 locale on an older version of GHC, you will have to perform the transcoding yourself, e.g. as follows:
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B import Data.Text.Lazy (Text) import Data.Text.Lazy.Encoding (encodeUtf16) putStr_Utf16LE :: Text -> IO () putStr_Utf16LE t = B.putStr (encodeUtf16LE t)
readFile :: FilePath -> IO TextSource
Read a file and return its contents as a string. The file is
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Write a string to a file. The file is truncated to zero length before writing begins.
Operations on handles
hGetContents :: Handle -> IO TextSource
Special cases for standard input and output
interact :: (Text -> Text) -> IO ()Source
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I'd like to access the OpenGL Framebuffer and don't understand how to cope with that. I need the renderbuffer for writing to it and then display it.
I was thinking about doing it like this:
- Create OpenGL Context(e.g. glutInit)
- initialize OpenCL with OpenGL Share Group for accessing OpenGL Context
- Get the renderbuffer to manipulate it.
- Display the renderbuffer.
Is it possible to use double-buffering and always manipulate the back-buffer and switch the buffers after that with glutSwapBuffers?
Getting the OpenGL-Context is not the big problem for me; I don't understand the function to get the renderbuffer:
cl_mem clCreateFromGLRenderbuffer (
cl_context context, cl_mem_flags flags,
GLuint renderbuffer, int *errcode_ret)
What do I insert for GLuint renderbuffer?
One last question(if the answer is no, I didn't understand anything ;)). Is the Renderbuffer the same as the Framebuffer?
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White Willow Bark Uses
Hello all you wonderful people! For all you crafters out there, are you looking for something new and exciting to try? Do you love adding different herbs and ingredients to your bath and body products? Or maybe even trying different ingredients in your soaps? Well, have you ever used white willow bark before? This product is simply amazing, it has so many uses that you'll be itching to try it as soon as you're done reading this! White willow bark can be used for so many different industries and products such as hair care, skin care, medicinal uses, bath and body products, and you can even make a white willow bark tea!
There are so many different white willow bark uses. It can be used in many common bath and body products such as facial masks, bath teas and salts, lotions, ointments, creams, bath bombs, scrubs and even soaps. With using these products, there are many skin care and hair care benefits. For the hair, white willow bark helps to moisturize it and the scalp. It also is used to remove dandruff and excess oils. For your skin, the white willow bark will help brighten any dark areas of the skin and give it an even smooth complexion. It is also used to treat black heads, white heads, acne, and even oily or inflamed skin. When you use this product in some herbal concoctions, it is known to help relieve pain.
White willow bark has many medicinal benefits as well. The tea can be used as a foot soak to help with smelly, sweaty, or sore feet and the tea can also be used as a gargle to treat sore throats and tonsillitis. White willow bark contains a compound called salicin that is like aspirin. It is better on the stomach than aspirin and doesn't irritate the lining. White willow bark also has many different properties like being antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, astringent, and anti-pyretic. It can be used to treat arthritis, gout, diarrhea, gas, fever, headaches, heartburn, joint pains, colds, bursitis, the flu, osteoarthritis, and tendonitis. It also contains natural antioxidants and flavonoids that help to remove harmful chemicals from the body that could later cause cancers. It even can remove warts, stop vomiting and suppress sexual desire. Pregnant women are recommended not to use this product, however it does help to alleviate women's pain caused from menstrual cramps. It also helps with hot flashes and night sweats brought on from menopause. White willow bark also speeds up any herbal supplements being used to help a person lose weight.
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A surge in cocaine trafficking has transformed Guinea into West Africa's latest drug hot spot, jeopardizing President Alpha Conde's efforts to rebuild state institutions after a military coup and attract billion of dollars in mining investment.
Locals and Latin Americans long-accused of smuggling are operating freely in the country, some with high-level protection from within Conde's administration, according to Guinean and international law enforcement officials and internal police reports seen by Reuters.
The growth of trafficking was overlooked as diplomats focused on securing a fragile transition back to civilian rule after the 2008 putsch.
Counter-narcotics agents from the United States and other countries, meanwhile, concentrated on smugglers in neighboring Guinea-Bissau, a tiny former Portuguese colony dubbed by crime experts Africa's first "narco-state".
However, the U.S. State Department's 2013 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report said seizures in Guinea and cases abroad traced back there show a spike in trafficking since Conde won power at a 2010 election.
A lack of government figures makes estimating volumes tricky, but a foreign security source said one or two planes landed each month last year, ferrying in cocaine from Latin America mostly for smuggling to Europe.
"Whatever the attitude of the head of state, it's clear that traffickers can operate in Guinea. They have deep roots there," said Stephen Ellis, researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in the Netherlands.
Ellis said drug money was having a corrosive effect on attempts by Conde's government to improve governance: "It's worrying because of the effects not just on the politics of Guinea, but the whole region."
A July report by Guinea's top anti-drugs agency, seen by Reuters, said traffickers were operating with protection of senior civilian, military and police officials. It said proceeds from the trade are laundered through various channels, including real estate, fishing companies and local mining operations.
Guinea and Guinea-Bissau are at the eastern end of "Highway 10", the nickname given by law enforcement officers for the 10th parallel north of the equator, the shortest route across the Atlantic, used by traffickers over the past decade to smuggle Latin American cocaine destined mainly for Europe.
United Nations experts estimated last year that some 20 tonnes of cocaine, mostly from Colombia and Venezuela, pass each year through West Africa, which became an attractive transit point as U.S. and European authorities cracked down on more direct routes.
Guinea's role has surged since last year, when an April U.S. sting operation targeted Guinea-Bissau's military chief, prompting traffickers to seek sanctuary in Conakry, law enforcement officials said.
The shift of the trade to Guinea raises the stakes. While Guinea-Bissau is an unstable backwater of just 1.6 million people that rarely attracts notice outside a small community of West Africa watchers, Guinea has nearly 8 times as many people and a much larger regional role.
With vast reserves of iron ore, it has also secured billions of dollars in pledges for investment from mining firms including Rio Tinto and Brazil's Vale. A breakdown of law and order associated with the drugs trade could have an impact on that investment.
In the moldy, potholed seaside capital, expensive restaurants, gleaming hotels and new apartment blocks highlight pockets of wealth. But they soon give way to teeming, rubbish-strewn neighborhoods away from the center of town.
"People are frightened to take the lid off Guinea," said one foreign official, who, like others interviewed for the story, declined to be identified. "Authorities know traffickers are there but are powerless to do anything. They need international help."
Part of the problem is that Col. Moussa Tiegboro Camara, Guinea's top anti-narcotics officer, has been accused of involvement in a massacre of protesters under the military junta in 2009, making it impossible for Western nations to cooperate with him.
He did not respond to a request for comment, nor did officials in Conde's office.
Government spokesman Damantang Camara denied that trafficking was rising or that the state was complicit: "There will be no compromise with drug traffickers." (Camara is a common surname in Guinea and several people in this report who share the name are not related.)
Those meant to keep order lack the resources to do so.
A Guinean anti-narcotics officer said his men are unarmed, need money for fuel and are forced to buy second-hand laptops. The 230 anti-drug agents are too few to police the air strips, coastal landing points or chaotic main port, making the country a smuggler's paradise.
Local and international officials with access to intelligence reports say cocaine is increasingly landing by sea at unmonitored ports or flown in by small planes using remote air strips. Shipments then often receive military escort.
In July, Guinean anti-drugs agents were tipped off about a boat landing carrying cocaine and tried to scramble officers to the scene near Boffa, 80 km (50 miles) north of Conakry.
They didn't get very far. Before they left the capital, they were ordered off the case by other security forces. Their men later found a boat stained with dried blood and stripped of identification and communications equipment.
"We were shut out by the Navy and the Gendarmerie … They were hostile to our presence on the ground," said a Guinean anti-narcotics officer with detailed knowledge of the case. "There has been a total blackout on the incident."
Drug trafficking in Guinea flourished in the years leading up to veteran president Lansana Conte's death in 2008. Political and military elites, including the late president's eldest son Ousmane Conte, secured the trade, according to Guinean legal documents and foreign law enforcement officials.
Dadis Camara, the army captain who seized power in the chaos after the end of Conte's 24-year rule, hauled senior civilian and military figures before him to confess their roles in drug trafficking. The inquisitions – known as the Dadis Show – became popular TV viewing and were used to neutralize rivals.
In a signed police transcript, Ousmane Conte admitted in February 2009 to taking $300,000 from an alleged drug trafficker who used the late president's son's name to secure clearance for planes ladened with cocaine.
In 2010, Washington nominated Ousmane Conte a drug kingpin. But, like others accused of trafficking, the son of the late president was soon free again.
He has said on national television: "I confess that I have participated in the trafficking of drugs, but I am not a godfather." Reuters was not able to reach him for comment.
He is now sidelined. But the Guinean anti-drugs officer said the network, dubbed "The Untouchables", is back in action: "We fear they've taken the president hostage. If we don't get international support, we'll never be able to tackle them."
Dadis Camara, the junta leader who took over after Lansana Conte's death, fled Guinea after an assassination attempt in December 2009. Elections were held the following year, bringing to power Conde, a longstanding figure in the opposition.
Conde took office after years in exile abroad. This has left him vulnerable and reliant on figures who know the system, according to a diplomat who follows Guinean politics.
"He doesn't know who to trust … Once they realized that he barked but did not bite, the networks reformed," the diplomat said.
Guinea's drug operations initially shifted to smaller Guinea-Bissau during a crackdown after Conte's death.
But the July memo by Guinea's top anti-drugs unit, which reports directly to the president, said traffickers had "tactically withdrawn" back to Guinea after last year's U.S. sting operation in the smaller country, which missed its target, Guinea-Bissau army chief General Antonio Injai.
"They had never gone very far. For a number of years, they have been in touch with Guinea's cocaine networks," the memo said.
In 2010, according to Guinean Supreme Court documents reviewed by Reuters, the court seized two dozen buildings owned by suspected traffickers. But legal cases subsequently fell through and the buildings were returned. They now swell the property portfolios of people accused by police of trafficking.
One, a half-finished, sky-blue building with a dry-cleaner downstairs, has risen up just down the road from the drug unit's headquarters, according to the local anti-narcotics officer.
Government spokesman Camara said cases against traffickers during military rule had not been properly put together.
"Their lawyers had no problem in taking them apart," he said. "Not all those traffickers were neutralized. That doesn't mean they are operating again. I don't believe that."
According to a second international law enforcement officer, several known foreign traffickers, many of them targeted in the 2008-9 crackdown, live in Conakry. They come from countries including Colombia, Nigeria, Greece, Brazil and Suriname.
At a conference in Abu Dhabi in November, Conde touted the country as "open for business" in a bid to woo Gulf investors. He won billions of dollars in mining investment.
Yet Conde faces a tough battle for re-election in 2016. He must also accomplish the delicate task of keeping in check the armed forces, implicated in trafficking.
"We are dealing with a government that lacks the most basic forms of governance … If you are a narco, the conditions you would want are all here," said a second Western diplomat.
The U.S. State Department report said officials tackling trafficking had been threatened due to their work. A State Department spokesman, however, said there appeared to be no significant threats to Guinea's stability from trafficking.
However, the July 2013 memo from Guinea's anti-drug unit challenged this, calling on Guinea's highest authorities to "neutralize" traffickers operating in complicity with officials.
"The stability of the country depends on it," it warned.


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I installed Cygwin, to be disappointed that bash by default runs within "cmd.exe". I googled around and found Console2. It's not a particularly well-designed application, as doing adjustments is slightly painful, although most of the time it works well.
I am still looking for a better way to survive in a Windows environment as even Console 2 occasionally crashes e.g. when trying to resize my terminal when editing in vim and there are plenty of other annoyances that I'm really not satisfied with.
Any ideas? I tried using Cygwin via PuTTY and that was an equally bad user experience.


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My grand(s)father was WILLIAM H.CAMPBELL (B IL June 1845, D 1/10/1894 IL) his wife ~1864-1880 was JULIA ANN SHAW B IL ~1847, D IL ~1880-1900; WILLIAM H.CAMPBELL'S father born IL. DAVID CAMPBELL (B~1808 IL) with his father born TN. seems to fit with a son William H. of the proper age. David lived with wife (probably married ~1843) ELIZABETH N.CAMPBELL in IL 1840 thru 1880 census'. This DAVID CAMPBELL had no listed middle name/initial. I can not find him in IL or TN in 1830 as a ~22YO lad. I would be grateful if anyone has a DAVID CAMPBELL in TN in 1830 as a ~22YO lad.
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I saw "The Social Network" in a packed theater on Friday night on the upper west side. It was an older crowd sprinkled with couples my age and younger. The audience laughed at some of the clever dialogue and did not show signs of displeasure throughout. I went in not expecting to like to movie because a) I didn't trust the hype and b) I'm not big on either the director David Fincher or the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
Still, no matter what reservations I bring to a movie, I always hope to be surprised.
"The Social Network" is brisk and confident, bravura filmmaking, and it throbs along. It is a good, old fashioned melodrama, made by intelligent people–who may believe that they are smarter than they actually are—about intelligent people. Underneath the surface, the rapid-fire-language, the slick technique, there isn't much happening. The movie is rarely boring but it's also a somber, portentous journey. I didn't buy any of it and think the movie verges on self-parody from the onset–the angry drunk nerd, coding and blogging in a fury, the jealous business partners foiled again!


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SAN ANTONIO >> The air conditioning is on again inside the San Antonio Spurs' arena.
Spurs Sports and Entertainment announced Friday that the outage that affected Game 1 of the NBA Finals between San Antonio and Miami has been repaired.
Officials say the system at AT&T Center has been tested and is "fully operational."
Temperatures rose into the mid-80s inside the arena during Game 1, which the Spurs won 110-95. Heat star LeBron James left the game with 3:59 left after cramping in the heat, and both teams said conditions were difficult to play.
Game 2 is Sunday night. A concert is to be held in the arena Friday, and a WNBA game on Saturday.
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April 26, 2014
Book Review - Delia's Cakes
This is a completely revised edition of Delia Smith's Book of Cakes first published in 1977. Since then, she has gone on to be a household name in Britain and quite well known in Australia, so presumably does not need a surname anymore. The recipes have all been revised, simplified and updated for 2013 and she includes useful general tips on methods and equipment. More than 90% have options for gluten-free baking and some recipes are egg-free. She now advocates using soft butter spreads which almost completely do away with the step of creaming the butter and sugar, just put them all in together and whisk! As well as all kinds of cakes, there are also recipes for delicious sounding biscuits and muffins. The Iced Lemon Curd Layer Cake and the Hidden Strawberry Cupcakes caught my eye and the light sponge of the Orange and Passionfruit Cake would suit this warmer weather. Wendy
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This book made me homesick for East Africa, having lived there myself for many years! Very much in the style of Alexander McCall Smith's "No. 1 Ladies' Detective" series, Parkin creates a story full of African wisdom and nuance. The story is set in modern Rwanda, so in the course of the story, many truly African issues and problems arise. Wounds from the genocide are still fresh, but people are trying to overcome and focus on hope and healing, They will find a way to celebrate once again, despite many obstacles.
Angel Tungaraza, a Tanzanian living in Rwanda, bakes cakes for all occasions. She decorates them very creatively and her business is beginning to thrive, even in a place where there are still haunting memories of tragedies and other problems like HIV AIDS, child soldiers, and poverty. Angel says, "My cake business is doing well because there are almost no shops here that sell cakes. A cake business doesn't do well in a place where people have nothing to celebrate." But her business does begin to thrive and her business allows her to become involved in the lives of others, sometimes with surprising results. Her customers receive much more from Angel than a beautiful cake! She also portrays well the sometimes tricky relationship between Foreign Aid workers (wazungu) and locals in such a place as Tanzania or Rwanda. Angel says, "All wazungu are rich. They get an extra $100 a day to compensate for living in a dangerous country, while most Rwandans do not earn that in a month!" The author was born in Africa and knows it well. She herself has lived in Rwanda and has worked with survivors there. Many of the stories she tells were inspired by stories she was told by women she counselled. She does a marvellous job of capturing the African spirit.
This is her first novel and I do hope she writes more. 'Baking Cakes in Kigali' deals with heavy issues in an uplifting manner, creating a deliciously funny, moving, and charming (but not sugar-coated) story, showing the strength and tenacity of the human spirit.


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Face to Face with God: Get Ready for a Life-Changing Encounter with God
by Bill Johnson
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Chapter 1
The Journey Begins
The air is pregnant with possibility—can you feel it? Heaven itself is longing to invade the natural realm. Darkness may cover the earth, but God 's glory upon His people is becoming more and more realized, bringing hope to the most hopeless situations.
God is opening up His treasure house of truth and releasing it all over mankind in remarkable ways. The apostle Paul 's prayer is being answered before our eyes: I give "thanks for you, mentioning you in my prayers, so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him" (Ephesians 1:16-17, MEV). Like birth pangs signaling the time of delivery, things are being released in revelation knowledge that have been preserved through the ages for this particular hour. In other words, this exponential increase in wisdom and revelation is being precipitated by the day that God is releasing in our time in history. I 'm not talking about new books of the Bible or other holy writings. I 'm talking about the Holy Spirit unlocking the very Scriptures we hold in our hands.
And what is this day that God is unveiling? It is a day of divine encounters, at least for those who will pursue what this revelation is making available. The spirit of wisdom and revelation is not given to make us smarter but to make us more aware of unseen realities. The purpose of this spirit or anointing is to give us wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. It works not merely to increase our understanding of kingdom principles but also to reveal the King Himself. Presence always wins out over principles. When we encounter His divine presence, transformation occurs that goes beyond the reach of merely good ideas—this is transformation that first takes place within us that we might cause transformation around us.
The Desire Is A Gift From God
The heart to seek God is birthed in us by God Himself. Like all desires, it is not something that can be legislated or forced, but rather it grows within us as we become exposed to God 's nature. He creates an appetite in us for Himself by lavishing us with the reality of his goodness—His irresistible glory. God 's love for people is beyond comprehension and imagination. He is for us, not against us. God is good 100 percent of the time. These realities burn deeply into the hearts of all who simply take the time to behold Him.
Paul describes this place of beholding as the absolute center of the new covenant we have been brought into, the place where "we all, seeing the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18, MEV). The impulse that drives the life of the believer isn 't the need to perform for God but to commune with Him. Only when we perceive the face of the One in whose image we were made do we come to know who were are and the One for whom we were made. And because of who He is, to behold Him and remain unchanged is impossible. As He infects us with His presence, we are drawn into an ongoing mission to become more and more fit to see Him in His fullness.
And the truth is that the degree to which we perceive the face of God corresponds directly to the degree of our yieldedness to the transforming work of the Holy Spirit into the image of Christ. The question for every believer is whether we will be satisfied with only a partial transformation or whether we will be so captivated by who He is that we will allow Him to kill everything in us that would inhibit us from becoming a mature manifestation of Christ.
this quest for His face is the ultimate quest. But to embrace the quest for the face of God, one must be ready to die. Thus, this quest is not a journey for the faint of heart. It is far too costly to pursue from mere curiosity.
Still, I hesitate to warn of the cost of fully seeking His face—not because a price doesn 't exist; it costs everything. I hesitate because the reality is that what a person gets in return makes the price we pay embarrassingly small by comparison.
The bottom line is that we give all of ourselves to obtain all of Him. There 's never been a better deal. When we go through with the exchange, we find that what used to matter doesn 't anymore. Life without passion gives way to a life of reckless abandon. Not only does everything in our lives that is inconsistent with the kingdom of God start to dies the moment we encounter Him, but the superior, supernatural reality of His kingdom starts to come alive in us. It is not possible to encounter One so overwhelming and maintain the status quo.
The journey is so sacred, so all-consuming, that very few respond to its call. While the seeds of this quest are found in the heart of every man, woman, and child, most seem numb to its existence. Many things work to stifle the desire in us to seek the face of the One in whose image we were created. Whether we are overwhelmed by the prevailing winds of secular reasoning or the pain of religious disappointment, such forces cause us to abandon the ultimate quest and give in to the other impulse that has infected man since the Fall—the impulse to hide from God.
Still, the ultimate quest is quite doable and within reach. It is so all-inclusive that the smallest child may come. Every other journey and every other ambition pale in comparison. One might say this challenge adds meaning and definition to all of life 's other pursuits. Those who respond to the invitation find little else to live for. Those who say no spend their lives looking for an adequate replacement. And there is none to be found, anywhere.
My Assignment
Christian leaders in particular have their attention directed toward perceiving what God is revealing for the moment, and they work hard to articulate what God is revealing for the moment, and they work hard to articulate that revelation in the best way. Whether its in preaching, in the lyrics of a song, or in a book, we are all attempting to capture that which is divine and release it upon the earth. That 's my purpose in this book.
Much of the content of this book was first introduced to our church family around 2002. Preaching it scared me, in all the right ways. This was the only time in my life where I trembled for days following the preaching of a message. However, at the time I was not burdened to release this message in writing, which has been the case with every other book I 've written. At the same time, it became my whole life, the life that I have purposed to live, a life devoted to discovering and hosting the presence of God. Pursuing this goal has been costly, but that did not prevent it from becoming more and more fixed in me as my sole reason to be alive. In recent months God has made it clear that the message I have been trying to live is now a message I need to write about.
The quest for deep encounters with God started the moment I said yes to His call on my life. I wasn 't called to ministry or to accomplish some great feat in His name. I was called God Himself. My moment happened one Sunday in 1971 when my dad, who was also my pastor, taught a message from Ezekiel 44 about the greatest honor given to mankind—our ministry to the Lord Himself in thanksgiving, praise, and worship. He taught us that there was a difference between our ministry to God and our ministry to people. There was no doubt that our ministry to God was the most important responsibility of all, and it was available to every believer.As I heard him teach the Word, I was stirred beyond anything I have ever dealt before. While it was not the type of message that one would usually think needed an altar call, I had to respond. From the pew where I sat, I bowed my head and said, "Heavenly Father, I give You the rest of my life to teach me this one thing." To say I was moved was a great understatement. I had already given my life to Christ, in a way where I held nothing back. But I was now saying that in my surrender to Christ I had one specific agenda that outweighed every other—my ministry to the Lord Himself.
It quickly became apparent that this call to worship was not about music, instruments, choirs, or worship teams. Neither was it about using singing to warm up people for the sermon. In this ministry to God, as far as the role of music was concerned, not even the great songs written about Him were appropriate. To suit this ministry, I needed songs I could sing to Him. It was all about ministering directly to the Lord in His actual presence.
The Lord responded quickly to my lifestyle of abandonment to His presence by confirming, through unfolding revelation, that this was indeed the purpose for which He had made and redeemed me. Scripture is saturated with the theme that we were made for a relationship that allows us to know by experience the supernatural God who created us, and it soon became evident to me that the encounters that God had with people in the Bible were not reserved only for those of that era. Encounters of that magnitude actually started to look possible, even probable again. While I never thought I qualified for anything extraordinary, I knew that He loved me, and I in turn was increasingly hungry for Him.
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That Enzo Ferrari marched to the beat of his own drum can be summed up easily: Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona.
automotive world in the second half of the 1960s was awash in midengine mania,
thanks in great measure to Lamborghini's 170-mph Miura, introduced in 1966.
Conventional wisdom held that Ferrari would respond with a midengine
12-cylinder car.
The 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona commemorated
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When did Enzo ever hue to conventional wisdom?
The Daytona story begins in 1966, when Pininfarina designer Leonardo Fioravanti laid eyes on a naked 330 GTC chassis. "It struck me as something unique," he remembered. "I wanted to follow its shape and dimensions, while paying close attention to the aerodynamics."
Fioravanti put pen to paper and presented his renderings to Sergio Pininfarina, whose entreaties to Ferrari to build a midengine V-12 model had been continuously rebuffed. When Sergio saw Fioravanti's stunning proposal for a new front-engine design, he accepted it warmly.
"The fundamental objective we set for ourselves was to obtain a thin, svelte car, like a midengine design," Pininfarina recalled. "The whole idea was really a search for this sense of lightness and rake, a slender look."
Although "the 275 GTB/4's successor wasn't being discussed," Fioravanti said, Ferrari liked what he saw. So two prototypes were built in late 1967 and early '68, mostly using 275 GTB/4 mechanicals.
The cars followed Fioravanti's general lines. They employed the front of the Ferrari 275 berlinetta and the rear of what would be the Daytona. Pininfarina then altered the nose to get a more modern look and the "lightness and rake" he desired.
The chassis continued Ferrari's tradition of welded oval-section tubes and a 94.5-inch (2400mm) wheelbase, but with a new, wider track. Suspension was independent, and the disc brakes had improved ventilation to keep them cool under hard use.
The production Daytona's V-12 displaced 4.4-liters and, like the Ferrari 275 GTB/4, had four overhead cams. It was crowned by six downdraft Weber carburetors. The lubrication system featured a dry-sump oiling system. Quoted horsepower was 352 at a heady 7500 rpm.
The Daytona bowed at the 1968 Paris Auto Show. It formally was the Ferrari 365 GTB/4: 365 being the size of one cylinder in cubic centimeters, 4 referring to the engine's four cams. But Ferrari also referred to the car as the Daytona, in commemoration of the marque's 1-2-3 sweep at Florida's famed 24-hour sports-car race in 1967. The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona also marked another Maranello milestone: It turned out to be the last model made by Ferrari before Enzo sold his company to Fiat in June 1969.
That Ferrari's new GT did not have a midengine design was of little consequence once it was driven.
England's Motor called it "the anti-Miura production car." Declared Road & Track in its first road test:
"It might as well be said right now, the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona is the best sports
car in the world. Or the best GT ... "
The 1969 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona was popular in America.
Autocar came to the same conclusion. "It is hard to capture in mere words all the excitement, sensation and sheer exhilaration of this all-time great among cars. For us it has become an important new yardstick, standing at the pinnacle of the fast car market."
And indeed it was the pinnacle as the 1970s began. The Miura S Autocar tested had a top speed of 172 mph; the Daytona bettered that by 2 mph. The Ferrari was quicker, too, doing the quarter-mile in 13.8 seconds, the standing kilometer in 24.3. The Lamborghini needed 14.5 and 26.1 seconds, respectively. That level of performance would also propel the Daytona to a long, storied racing career.
Fioravanti said he never envisioned a convertible Daytona when he conceived the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona, but that didn't stop Sergio Scaglietti. The coachbuilder had made Daytona bodies since the car's Paris debut, and with Sergio Pininfarina's approval, created an open-air prototype. The transformation was "an easy one," in the words of the Modenese magician, and Ferrari was soon assaulted with requests for the Daytona Spyder.
convertible bowed at the 1969 Frankfurt Auto Show, designated the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona by
Ferrari. Production began in mid 1970 and just under 125 were built over three
years. Almost 80 percent went to America. The Daytona Spyder proved
to be the final hurrah for "old-school" Ferrari, one where Scaglietti could
approach Pininfarina, then have Ferrari sign off on production.
After the 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona was produced, Enzo sold Ferrari to Fiat.
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