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Asteroid + Earth = bad

According to the bbc article, theres a decent chance Earth might get creamed by a 2km asteroid in 17 years, but astronomers think it will end up missing us. Still, they say its the most threatning flying spacerock theyve ever discovered

thats bullshit man, dont believe every single shit article you read.
BBC might be very good and so on, but hey, everyone makes misstakes

Reminds me of the movies Armageddon and Impact(?) or whatever it was called, did it say where on Earth it would crash? Sounds a little weird..

//DJ_A

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Originally posted by Endre thats bullshit man, dont believe every single shit article you read. BBC might be very good and so on, but hey, everyone makes misstakes

EXACTLEY

Just think, Atari was head of their time when they created the game Astroids.

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Originally posted by igottaknow Just think, Atari was head of their time when they created the game Astroids.

LOL i remember that game

Why is everyone so sceptical. A meteor could easily be heading our way. Hell it happened before. I think its possible, but im not worried because there is technology to deal with it(i think)

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Originally posted by Nadi Why is everyone so sceptical. A meteor could easily be heading our way. Hell it happened before. I think its possible, but im not worried because there is technology to deal with it(i think)

maybe in star trek there is

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH maybe in star trek there is

Cant you just blow that bitch up?

Uhm... its not bullshit. Asteroid impacts are events that have actually happened, and will happen again, eventually. Find a good, detailed picture of the moon, or go outside with a telescope. Look at all the gigantic craters in it. Beleive it or not, if it wernt for erosion and plants to cover it up, Earth would look about the same.

Just in the past year, 2 asteroids have come dangerously close to Earth, and noone even noticed either of them until they had already passed by. About 30 small asteroids (a few meters long) fly into the atmosphere and explode every year.

The odds of a huge asteroid creaming us and causing major damage is pretty slim, but it DOES happen.

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Originally posted by nrjizer Uhm... its not bullshit. Asteroid impacts are events that have actually happened, and will happen again, eventually. Find a good, detailed picture of the moon, or go outside with a telescope. Look at all the gigantic craters in it. Beleive it or not, if it wernt for erosion and plants to cover it up, Earth would look about the same.

acctually the reason the moon has craters and earth doesnt
isnt becuase of those reasons
but becuase earth has an atomosphere and the moon doesnt

I read it too..it's on the Dutch newssite aswell

Got me thinking: how many asteroids have _just_ passed the earth without the general public knowing about it?

I guess they'd rather keep those things quiet! I mean..what could we do about it? We = the people without atombombs in their garage

actually i hear about things like that every month and surprisingly an astroid hit earth only once in the history, and following those articles there should have been like a billion strikes already

so... don't worry

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Originally posted by Miss Proximus I read it too..it's on the Dutch newssite aswell Got me thinking: how many asteroids have _just_ passed the earth without the general public knowing about it? I guess they'd rather keep those things quiet! I mean..what could we do about it? We = the people without atombombs in their garage

As a civil your expected to run around screaming "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE..... OMG SAVE US"

I don't know about you but in denmark they teach us that i school, and i must admit we're very good at it.

Seriously... do we really want to know?

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Cant you just blow that bitch up?

From what i have heard, it's to hard to determin if a asteroid is gonna hit earth, and when they know it's to late to do any thing about it.

And if it's gonna hit, then what could they do... really?

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And if it's gonna hit, then what could they do... really?

Blow the mother up.


Ciao
Pointy

Impact is on 1st of February, 2019. So try and live before then

"http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12050733,00.html"

*packs his bags to explore life's personal quests and goals before it's too late

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Originally posted by Narcotic Mind actually i hear about things like that every month and surprisingly an astroid hit earth only once in the history, and following those articles there should have been like a billion strikes already so... don't worry

This doesnt look like one to me...

asteroids hit earth on a daily basis. they just arent all world killers like this one would be. most are only a few inches in diameter at most.

these are craters of some of the biggest to hit earth


those are just impacts in Canada and the Northern US.


so dont say that in all of history the earth has been hit once. cause thats just bullshit.

there is supposedly a HUGE one in the gulf of mexico, ill look for some info on that.

http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/chicxulub.html

thats the one that hit which coincided with the extiction of the dinosaurs. its not proven that it killed them but it fits the timeframe.


believe it or not things like this are a serious threat.

on a more serious note, the reason scientists arn't too worried about something hitting the earth is because 99.9% of them will get destroyed passing through the atmosphere, or at least reduced to harmless chunks.

you'd think with 17 years to prepare for this, they'll be able to find a way to stop it.

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Originally posted by Nadi on a more serious note, the reason scientists arn't too worried about something hitting the earth is because 99.9% of them will get destroyed passing through the atmosphere, or at least reduced to harmless chunks.

that is true for the small ones i was talking about. but every couple thousand years we do recieve a large impact(an object upwards of 10 meters in diameter). the atmosphere cant protect us from anything larger then one meter.

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NASA's Near Earth Object program gives the asteroid a rating of "0" on the Torino impact hazard scale

see for yourselves what that means:


in short... don't worry, party on!

Well I read that the Earth is more at risk from Super Volcano's instead of Asteroids.

The Volcano in Yellowstone National PArk in the US, is currently a live supervolcano with something like a lake of Magma the size of the entire state or something, and they usually erupt every 600,000 years. However, Yellowstone's super volcano, is something like 10,000 years LATE for its eruption!

Fortunately for me, living in the UK, I will no bear the effects of this supervolcano erupting

apart from all the plants dying = no food. DOH!

Hmmmm... once in 100,000 years?

Well, the last one thought to have hit, did so a couple of million years ago, so....

*takes out umbrella*

I saw something about this on the danish TV tonight. They said that the meteor was about 2 kilometers long, so it's way to big to be burned up in our atmosphere. Thay also said that the chances that the meteor would hit earth is only 1 in 200.000

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