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  2. From: lumensa@lub001.lamar.edu (Dale Parish)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: Swift-Tuttle Comet a threat to earth?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov8.190625.1763@lub001.lamar.edu>
  6. Date: 8 Nov 92 19:06:25 +1700
  7. References: <1992Oct26.170011.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <ALTI.92Oct28201543@tanera.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <STEINLY.92Oct28132635@topaz.ucsc.edu> <1992Oct30.134857.23107@esfra.sub.org>
  8. Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont
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  11. >>   I understand that it is pretty unlikely that Swift-Tuttle will hit
  12. >>   earth in 2126. However, I would like to know what would happen in the
  13. >>   case such a big object would collide with our planet? I am not sure
  14. > 
  15. >>You die, I die, Everybody dies!
  16. > 
  17. > Calm down. Do you expect to live until 2126? OK.
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  20. Wouldn't you like to believe that by that time, *someone* will be living
  21. on the surface of another orbiting body?
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