[meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004 MN4 -99942Apophis)

[David Freeman mjwy]

Dear all who ponder "messing with science";
Short of Soylent Green, I prefer most scientific advances. Especially 
cars, homes heated with refined petroleum, flipping on the switch to see 
in the dark...    I have been known to enjoy a good aspirin now and 
then, and  a refined caffeine product called coffee (not to mention the 
creamy glazed donuts)!  
If science and messing with "natural selection" can double my life span 
as it does now....I doubt I go back to living in trees and eating roots, 
berries, and scrounging lion kills...........
Selected,
Dave F.

Chris Peterson wrote:

> A few hundred years ago the bubonic plague was a natural disaster. 
> Should we throw away penicillin?
>
> Chris
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> Chris L Peterson
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Knudson" 
> <peregrineflier at npgcable.com>
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Asteroid Headed Our Way (2004 MN4 
> -99942Apophis)
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>
>> Hi List,
>> I have to ask, is it right to mess with "mother nature"?  From the 
>> beginning
>> of time cosmic events have been part of nature.  If  "mother nature" 
>> thinks
>> it's time for mankind to end, then do we have the right to stop it?
>> Natural disasters are part of life, we will never stop earthquakes,
>> tornados, tidal waves, hurricanes or volcano's, because we can not, 
>> should
>> we stop asteroids just because we can? I say, let nature take it's 
>> coarse!
>> : )  Heck, if it were not for asteroids, we would be watching out for
>> T-rex's when ever we went out to the store for milk!  Mother nature 
>> knows
>> what she's doing, let her do her thing!  Any women right activists 
>> out there
>> to give an opinion on this?
>> Thanks, Tom
>
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