Editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson has the unique ability to look at current events and bring them from that far away place where news is made and into the homes and daily lives of his readers. His material not only targets politicians and recognizable media figures, but it also covers topics that hold up a mirror to everyday Americans and sends them into action, wanting to take on the issues in their own lives.
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masterskrain said, 3 months ago
He forgot the “Preparation A”, the only treatment for Asteroids!
Stipple said, 3 months ago
Even Earth just puckers up when one of those hit.
Kinda fond of our space program at this point.
pirate227 said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
Nice!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
If we spent more money on surveying the sky instead of fielding the largest military any empire would envy, we could see more of them and even divert the more dangerous ones.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
The Russian meteorite came from the sunny side of the Solar System at 40,000 miles an hour. I don’t know what technology would have spotted it.
Tigger
said, 3 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
How do you divert asteroids?
David
said, 3 months ago
Why would we want to spend money on tracking that sized object? It’s a local problem and we have limited resources. Focus on the big ones that are regional and worldwide issues. Funny comic BTW, highlights the aburdity of the survivalist movement.
Dycel
said, 3 months ago
We really do need to advance our space programs. The engineering advances we created under Kennedy’s race to the moon were a huge technological boost to jobs, sciences, etc.
In this period of technology the potential to advance our ability to move amongst the stars, harvest minerals from asteroids, create new energy sources would make any investments a real stimulus to aid the entire planet also give us an escape route when weve polluted our environment to the point of apocalyptic proportions.
Now if only the little grey beings from mars would stop feeding the repubby efforts to keep us planet bound we might be able to get off this damn planet!
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
The next exciting astronomical thing (that we know about) will be Comet PANSTARRS in early March.
It will not pass closer than 1.1 AU from the Earth (an Astronomical Unit is the distance from Earth to Sun 93 million miles)
On March 10 the comet should be closest to the Sun and brightest just after sunset in the West.
D-squared said, 3 months ago
@Tigger
Shake shiny keys in front of them?
Fuzzy Thinker (I)
said, 3 months ago
I hope the TOONist is Not advising Katrina and Sandy survivors to give up and Not prepare for the next weather event.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
Was that a drone attack?
Radish
said, 3 months ago
Look at Russia, all those broken windows and destroyed buildings, and then it got hit by a meteor…
Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago
A commentator above asked how to divert an asteroid…
You land a satellite equipped with a large engine on it and fire the engine in controlled short bursts as it rotates in order to divert it away from the earth and into the sun. The technology exists and we have landed a satellite on an asteroid not that long ago. I posted a link to the event a few days ago. All we need to do is build the satellites and equip them with powerful engines.
There’s no profit in saving the planet though. Mr. Carlson’s cartoon suggests that diverting asteroids might be a 2nd amendment issue. Perhaps selling it as a way to protect gun ownership, or even unborn children who might die if a very large rock struck our planet would move politicians to act.
We have the power to be powerful. We just need the will to act.
Respectfully,
C.
Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago
@Respectful Troll
While I enjoy your comments (this one too) I have to disagree with your interpretation of the toon. Not that I have any insight into what is in Calson’s mind, but don’t you think this is a Jab at preppers? Here this loon has gone to all the trouble and expense and guess where the rock lands.
And he has a point. One CAN be prepared for “almost” every eventuality, not every one. Possibilities are endless BECAUSE we have free will. But when the operative system is Chaos and the original task was to create order out of it, the natural laws in effect of equals and opposite reactions, it’s only logical to have some chaos in life. Unpredictability.
It’s one reason why it is comforting to think that there may actually BE an “GOOD” entity struggling still to conquer “BAD” or Chaos.
But we are so far above such musings today, what with all our mad science and advance technology.
No, my brother, I do not believe that Carlson had any 2nd amendment issues other than denigrating those that have a different culture, one that he does not understand. But it will be the Preppers" that survive IF and when the big rock hits if anyone does.