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important! must read.
This may be irrelevant to many or all of you, but i was reading this thingy on this site about some ex government astronomer saying that from June 18th 2004 till about the 26th or 27th, meteor and an 'anomaly' will hit the earth! OH NO! lol anywho, sounds interesting yet believable in the sense that he backs up everything he states with good evidence! fuckxorz! anyway it's like 5am or something and i'm bored, somebody please talk lol. i'm disturbed.
you obviously missed the official bored at 2:22am thread (even if it was 5 am)
haha what a load of crap
maybe he got fired from his job for being a looney?
When you think about the size of the sky and the size of the rocks involved, even if a massively sized meteor like the one that killed off the dinosaurs was heading straight for us, we probably wouldn't even get an hour's warning, if that.
Like in 1991 an asteroid missed us by 106,000 miles (in cosmic terms that's like a bullet being shot through your sleeve without touching your arm), and we didn't even see it until it was past us.
The same thing happened a couple of years later, but this one was only 90,000 miles away (and again we didn't see it until it had already missed).
And if an asteroid that big did hit earth, we'd probably all die out. So no point really worrying about it 
You want to hear something more freaky, Nostradamis once predicted that 2015 will be the end, now something more freaky to back this up was that the Egyptians and Celtics 1000 years before this predication had calenders which all finished on 2015.
At present there are 605 known Potentially Harzardous Asteroids. None are currently on collision courses.
Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/
The world will end in 2015.
Planes will fall out of the sky due to the millenium bug.
Mobile phones give cancer.
Beer kills brain cells.
When will the lies end??? 
lol no comment!
Seriously though i'm not going to start believing it or anything BUT it's is quite a thing when none of these people were ever wrong.
well nostradamus wasn't always correct, and it all depends on who's interpretation you're reading.
a lot like astrology.
house music will be the end of us all
Some stuff Nostradamis though did predict was the Atomic Bomb before Einstein conducted the formula for it.
described it as "A great mushroom cloud of destruction", i think this was said around 1800s
I'm sure he got other stuff right, though i don't have the book here that tells you about them all 
Maybe he was referring to his farts after eating that shitty medieval food?
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK well nostradamus wasn't always correct, and it all depends on who's interpretation you're reading. a lot like astrology. |
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| Originally posted by webmeister And if an asteroid that big did hit earth, we'd probably all die out. So no point really worrying about it |
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| Originally posted by matt.h depening upon the impact point, us aussies could face a very agonising -death-, within a matter of weeks we'd all be freezing our balls off and breathing air so polluted it'd turn your healthy lungs into those of a 70yr old life-chain-smoker! so if one does hit, pacific/indian/southern ocean would be nice. watch as a big massive tidal wave engulfs our little cities. |
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| Originally posted by narcism U watch too many hollywood movies |
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| Originally posted by r e z house music will be the end of us all |
lmao! not before R'n'B.
OK then, consider a meteor 2km in diameter hitting land, maybe in somewhere distant like the middle of the USA. Shamelessly stolen from Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything:
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How hard an asteroid hits depends on a lot of variables�angle of entry, velocity and trajectory, whether the collision is head-on or from the side, and the mass and density of the impacting object, among much else. But, an asteroid or comet traveling at cosmic velocities would enter the Earth's atmosphere at such a speed that the air beneath it couldn't get out of the way and would be compressed, as in a bicycle pump. As anyone who has used such a pump knows, compressed air grows swiftly hot, and the temperature below it would rise to some 60,000 Kelvin, or ten times the surface temperature of the Sun. In this instant of its arrival in our atmosphere, everything in the meteor's path�people, houses, factories, cars�would crinkle and vanish like cellophane in a flame. One second after entering the atmosphere, the meteorite would slam into the Earth's surface, where the people had a moment before been going about their business. The meteorite itself would vaporize instantly, but the blast would blow out a thousand cubic kilometers of rock, earth, and superheated gases. Every living thing within 150 miles that hadn't been killed by the heat of entry would now be killed by the blast. Radiating outward at almost the speed of light would be the initial shock wave, sweeping everything before it. For those outside the zone of immediate devastation, the first inkling of catastrophe would be a flash of blinding light�the brightest ever seen by human eyes�followed an instant to a minute or two later by an apocalyptic sight of unimaginable grandeur: a roiling wall of darkness reaching high into the heavens, filling an entire field of view and traveling at thousands of miles an hour. Its approach would be eerily silent since it would be moving far beyond the speed of sound. Anyone in a tall building a couple of hundred kilometers away who chanced to look in the right direction would see a bewildering veil of turmoil followed by instantaneous oblivion. Within minutes, over an area stretching from Denver to Detroit and encompassing what had once been Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, the Twin Cities�the whole of the Midwest, in short�nearly every standing thing would be flattened or on fire, and nearly every living thing would be dead. People up to a thousand miles away would be knocked off their feet and sliced or clobbered by a blizzard of flying projectiles. Beyond a thousand miles the devastation from the blast would gradually diminish. But that's just the initial shockwave. No one can do more than guess what the associated damage would be, other than that it would be brisk and global. The impact would almost certainly set off a chain of devastating earthquakes. Volcanoes across the globe would begin to rumble and spew. Tsunamis would rise up and head devastatingly for distant shores. Within an hour, a cloud of blackness would cover the planet, and burning rock and other debris would be pelting down everywhere, setting much of the planet ablaze. It has been estimated that at least a billion and a half people would be dead by the end of the first day. The massive disturbances to the ionosphere would knock out communications systems everywhere, so survivors would have no idea what was happening elsewhere or where to turn. It would hardly matter. As one commentator has put it, fleeing would mean "selecting a slow death over a quick one. The death toll would be very little affected by any plausible relocation effort, since Earth's ability to support life would be universally diminished." The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles. In 2001 researchers at the California Institute of Technology analyzed helium isotopes from sediments left from the later KT impact and concluded that it affected Earth's climate for about ten thousand years. This was actually used as evidence to support the notion that the extinction of dinosaurs was swift and emphatic�and so it was in geological terms. We can only guess how well, or whether, humanity would cope with such an event. And in all likelihood, remember, this would come without warning, out of a clear sky. |
ah poo.
After reading this I'm more inclined to spend my money on a world trip rather than an investment portfolio. Wonder why that is?
wow that decription of a meteor hitting earth was both chilling and compeling.
what a way to go though
Fantastic book that I stole that from, highly recommended reading
Sounds like a rather depressing book to me. I'm happy with my ignorance that everything is O... K...
just send a team of randoms up to land on the asteroid. Drill a hole and drop a nuke
movies don't lie
sweet!!!
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