Como si no hubiera suficientes problemas en la Tierra, ahora dicen que la amenaza mayor podría venir del espacio galáctico. En fin, pasen y vean lo que dicen algunos chicos del Zero Hedge de hoy:
Título: Why Has
The White House Suddenly Released A Strategy For Dealing With A Catastrophic
Meteor Impact?
Texto: As
SHTFPlan.com's Mac Slavo notes, we should take notice at the government
preparations for disaster, and the possibility of a cataclysmic collision with
damaging objects in space.
At the same time,
we should take notice at what they are preparing for with all the billions of
dollars thrown at defense and survival, it comes in secretive infrastructure
for a reclusive sect of power, and in top-down plans to contain the unrest.
Preparations for
the individual to survive, and be resilient are not being put in place in this
government, though many other governments have made such an investment into the
lives of individuals. Time and again, these people are told to brace for the
worst, with little to show for it. A few have made their preps, and it may yet
prove useful in this or some other disaster.
Why Has The White
House Suddenly Released A Strategy For Dealing With The Threat Of A Catastrophic
Meteor Impact?
Authored by The
End Of The American Dream's Michael Snyder,
Does the White
House know something that the rest of us do not? As the Obama administration
draws to a close, the White House has suddenly released a major document that
details a multi-pronged strategy for dealing with the threat of a catastrophic
meteor impact. Most of us remember movies such as “Deep Impact” and
“Armageddon” that attempted to depict what such a crisis would look like, but
up until fairly recently the U.S. government has never seemed to take this kind
of threat very seriously.
So what has
changed?
Of all the things
that the White House could be focusing on, why this?
And this new
report is just the latest in a series of measures that the government has taken
over the past couple of years to help prepare us for incoming meteors and
asteroids. The following is an excerpt from a recent Gizmodo article…
Concern over an
apocalyptic asteroid strike has risen all the way to the top: The White House
released a document this week detailing a strategy for National Near Earth
Object (NEO) preparedness. Morgan Freeman would no doubt be proud, although
honestly, the nation might have more pressing apocalypse concerns closer to
home.
Last year brought
renewed interest in handling humanity-ending impact events. After a 2014 audit
showed that NASA had a cruddy NEO preparedness system, the agency founded a new
Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) last year to detect all of our
potentially nasty NEO neighbors. The office quickly escalated talk to action,
running preparedness drills with the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), launching spacecraft to gather asteroid information, and even drawing
up plans to nuke the bad boys out of the sky if things get dicey.
NASA continues to
assure us that no threat is imminent, so why spend so much time, energy and
resources on a non-existent crisis?
If you want to
read the 25 page document that the White House just released, it is entitled
“National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy” and you can read it for
yourself right here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/NSTC/national_neo_preparedness_strategy_final.pdf
The document was
put together by the Interagency Working Group for Detecting and Mitigating the
Impact of Earth-bound Near-Earth Objects, and it outlined seven key objectives
that the authors believe are important…
1. Enhance NEO
detection, tracking, and characterization capabilities
2. Develop methods
for NEO deflection and disruption
3. Improve
modelling, predictions, and information integration
4. Develop
emergency procedures for NEO impact scenarios
5. Establish NEO
impact response and recovery procedures
6. Leverage and
support international cooperation
7. Establish
coordination and communications protocols and thresholds for taking action
And without a
doubt, we definitely do need to enhance our detection abilities. Just the other
day, a very large asteroid barely missed us, and we had only discovered it two
days earlier…
Early Monday
morning, while the US East Coast was pouring coffee, dropping kids off at
school, and cursing in traffic, a space rock as big as a 10-story building
slipped past Earth.
The asteroid,
dubbed 2017 AG13, was discovered only Saturday by the University of Arizona’s
Catalina Sky Survey, according to an email from Slooh, a company that
broadcasts live views of space.
We were very
fortunate this time, but the truth is that our planet crosses paths with other
giant space rocks on a very regular basis.
In fact, a
near-Earth object that is being called “a cross between an asteroid and a
comet” will come fairly close to our planet in February…
The latter
“object”, dubbed the 2016 WF9, was detected by NASA in late November and has
left scientist’s scratching their heads.
They have
described the celestial rock as a cross between an asteroid and a comet.
It’s in the
middle of its of.9 year orbit between Jupiter and Earth and will approach us on
February 25, flying by at a distance of 32million miles from the planet.
Currently,
approximately 10,000 major near-Earth objects have been identified by
scientists, and about 10 percent of them are one kilometer or larger in size.
If one of those
monsters directly hit our planet, we truly would be facing an extinction-level
event.
For example, just
imagine the kind of devastation that would happen if a large asteroid or meteor
hit the Atlantic Ocean. Tsunami waves hundreds of feet tall would be sent racing
toward the coasts of North America, South America, Africa and western Europe,
and millions upon millions of people would die.
This is something
that scientists have actually studied. According to a study conducted at the
University of California at Santa Cruz, if a giant meteor did strike the
Atlantic Ocean we could potentially see tsunami waves as high as 400 feet slam
into the east coast of the United States…
If an asteroid
crashes into the Earth, it is likely to splash down somewhere in the oceans
that cover 70 percent of the planet’s surface. Huge tsunami waves, spreading
out from the impact site like the ripples from a rock tossed into a pond, would
inundate heavily populated coastal areas. A computer simulation of an asteroid
impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa
Cruz, shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the
United States.
Depending on
where the meteor strikes, we could potentially see New York City, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Charleston, Miami and countless other
major coastal cities all wiped out on a single day.
Right now, 39
percent of all Americans live in a county that directly borders a shoreline.
To say that we
are vulnerable to a massive tsunami caused by a meteor impact would be a
massive understatement.
And scientists
assure us that it will happen someday. In fact, I don’t know if you have
noticed, but our area of space seems to have a lot more “traffic” in it these
days. NASA tells us that there is nothing to be worried about, but others are
concerned that something may be coming toward us or that we are moving toward
something.
Ultimately, we
need to remember that we are essentially a speck of dust hurtling through a
massive galaxy at incredibly high speeds, and our galaxy is only an extremely
small part of an absolutely enormous and ever changing universe.
Si, Astroboy, la amenaza es conocida pero obviamente si ellos deciden ocultarla van a hacerlo. Desde hace unos años se comenzó a registrar y catalogar cada objeto que se detecte, incluso hay un satélite artificial (o varios) dedicado a esas observaciones. Lo hace el JPL-NEO de la NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Near Earth Object) con la colaboración de muchos observatorios y voluntarios aficionados alrededor del mundo. Se calcula que hay 1000 objetos desconocidos de un tamaño suficiente para causar desde mucho daño (si cae sobre una metrópolis a un daño total. Hay varios miles ya catalogados y con su potencial de impacto calculado, aunque la evaluación no es fácil porque mientras siguen su propia órbita son afectados por la atracción gravitatoria de otros objetos entonces la trayectoria tiene que ser verificada constantemente para conocer su potencial peligro y verificar que no se hayan desviado mucho de la trayectoria originalmente observada. Sigo el tema con toda el interés que el tiempo me permite, aunque no soy un experto en astrofísica.
ResponderEliminarLo que refiere como "un aumento del tráfico por estos días", probablemente tenga que ver justamente con el trabajo de detección que se está haciendo, mediante el cual cada día se anuncian acercamientos de nuevos objetos, o de objetos anteriormente detectados. Por eso parece que fueran más.
ResponderEliminarPuede ser, puede ser... Astroboy, sin embargo, se pregunta si todo esto no será una tapadera para esconder algún nuevo programa misilístico.
ResponderEliminarCordiales saludos,
Astroboy