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Is it just me or most recent articles posted by zerohedge are fear-mongering?

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

A while back Zerohedge were reporting that Yellowstone was about to blow. Forgot that until your comment.

lol, maybe they're right - so what's in store for us in 2020 : Wuflu, Yellowstone, asteroid. Oh, and the sun is doing some weird things, so Ice Age will have to squeeze in there somehow as well.

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People worried by what they call "fear mongering", are insecure people, first and foremost

There's no such thing as fear mongering, at least in my book

Either you have a brain or you don't, either you use it or you don't, and hope isn't a plan

In finance, what you have to assess, is the risk, first and foremost

ZH is all about risk, and about potential for risk, and risk usually refers to "what could possibly go wrong?"

It's the "everything that can potentially go wrong, or is going wrong", journal

It's a bad news aggregator. It saves a lot of time and tabs to open close refresh

And yes it's a sea of "bad news" in general, and most of the time it's "normal bad news".And sometimes, you have "peak bad news"

Now you can read bloomberg or usa today. Personally I have a hard time finding anything even remotely interesting in those publications. It's platitudes, and feel good news most of the time. To me it's just not interesting.

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Looks like I hit a nerve here...

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Oh, let's say you're not the first coming up with the same tired bs label

"it's fear mongering"

"it's a conspiracy theory"

"it's racist"

Same shit, it's nothing but labels, mostly used by MSM to disqualify a source or any piece of information

That's why I tend to use a front kick everytime I see it popping

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Take alex jones for instance

He's a "fear mongering right wing conspiracy theorist"

But where would "we" be at, without him? Still in the MSM loop

Does it mean he's always right? No

Does it mean he's totally sane and reasonable? No

Does it mean he got everything wrong? No

The guy literally coined the word "globalist", the "offshore banking cartel"...

Now is alex jones the messiah? No

Is he the everything of all things when it comes to sources? No

Will he talk about the central role of jews? No

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There are no perfect sources, they are all unperfect, that's why "teamwork" here is interesting, everybody comes up with his own stuffs, some it's the gateway pundit, others it's this or that

It gives a global view about topics of interest

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Take gatestone institute, featured sometimes on zh

I rarely post any piece they write, not because they are fundamentally wrong or because I mostly disagree with their pov. They are anti islam, and what they report about it is mostly true. But they have an agenda, a neocon agenda, ie, make the goys mad at the muzzies for the benefit of kikes, essentially

So the day you see me posting a gatestone institute article featured on zh... It really has to be worth it

But I digress

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No.

Here's a simple analogy.

A meteor hitting Earth is like trying to hit a marble at the end of a huge gymnasium, by rolling a very slow and heavy bowling ball at it. It's basically impossible. Then, even if you DO get the exact angle, spin, trajectory that you need. There's a little kid running around with a foam noodle, and they can ever so slightly alter the course of the ball by hitting at it. All it would take is us sending a rocket at the meteor to disrupt its course by a tiny slither, and it'll either miss earth completely, or the asteroid would break apart, into many small pieces and they'd then burn up as they go through the atmosphere (yes, just like in The Simpsons).

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Its all a matter of speed, and angle evidently. Only limitation is friction

Give me a golf ball capable of traveling and sustaining the speed of light and I destroy the earth, and much more

You're talking to less than 80kg capable of hitting beyond 800 on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rJx_UBouek

826 on the dog shit day, to be accurate

It's safe to assume I know more about percussion than you do my friend

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I understand how it works, but an asteroid isn't travelling at the speed of light, it's going about 4 times the Earth's escape velocity:

https://mae.ufl.edu/~uhk/ASTEROID.pdf

I just did the (rough) math of an absolute worst case scenario. If an asteroid of 1km diameter, with a mass of about 1e12 kg was heading straight for the middle of Earth, with a speed of 40km/s, and it was discovered by the time it was about the distance to Mars... then yes, we'd be well and truly fucked.

However, the bigger an asteroid is, the easier it is to spot. Also, they don't head straight for us, they orbit the sun and other objects. So they'd do a few loops around the sun before they hit us.

I don't know how much momentum a bomb of sorts would impart on the asteroid; I just used basic conservation of momentum, or what would happen if you just launched a bunch of kinetic rockets at the bastard. The problem is, a 1km asteroid is fucking heavy. But yes, if you load up enough nukes, and the asteroid had a few more orbits before it actually hits, then I would assume you could divert its course enough so that it would miss us, depending on the asteroid.

If you blew it up into smaller pieces then that would work even better, because any non-iron meteor under 100m tends to just break up in the atmosphere, and the pieces hit the ground at terminal velocity.

Either way, as long as we keep monitoring space and keeping tabs on things, there should be nothing to worry about.

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They didn't see this one coming https://youtu.be/Y7Rx2PZ7C0c?t=5

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If it happens, it happens.

I did say 2020 was going to suck. It has so far. Might as well end with a bang - better than a whimper.

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Oh come on we got a large coronavirus already, almost single handedly bringing down the entire globalization thing

Granted, africa seems completely immune to it, as a matter of fact only chinks seem completely fucked, for now. But I'm convinced this story is far from over when it comes to the domino effect, so there's that

And now we almost have a full blown meteor of doom, I say why not. If it could fall on mecca that would be great. Israel or even pelosi's house would do. Ok it's likely only going to make a little light in the sky but who knows maybe just maybe...

That being said, if all else fail, we still have the god of chaos in 2029 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-19/god-chaos-asteroid-will-get-closer-orbiting-satellites-2029-researchers-warn-0

>It may be 10 years away, but NASA is already preparing for the arrival of what is being called the "God of Chaos" asteroid, which is slated to skim past the earth in 10 years, according to Express. The asteroid has been named 99942 Apophis. The asteroid is gargantuan, measuring 340 meters across, and will come within 19,000 miles of the earth's surface. It’s one of the largest asteroids to ever pass so close to the earth and a collision with it could be "devastating for all life on earth". No word on whether or not it'll wipe out all student debt, however. The asteroid will even get closer to the earth than most communication and weather satellites that are currently in orbit. These satellites are about 22,236 miles from earth.

It's a modest football stadium traveling at 25,000 mph

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What's certain is that one day - perhaps not any time soon, but one day - life as we know it will end.

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It's a mathematical certainty...

"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero"

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Nothing ever happens, anon. :(