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.


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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!

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Hmmmm... once in 100,000 years?

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

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