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Originally posted by TimeportE i thought that this meteor couldn't kill all the people at all.. "just" whole europe!

lol ... or the US

euhm, try to imagine the amount of dust that gets released...

I (not sure) thought that was the problem 65 million years ago.. because of the dust ==>> no sunlight ==>> temperature drops down ==>> iceage(s) ==>> everyone dies,( or turns into an eskimo )

but seriously, try imagining 100 years without light & heat (natural sources are gone in no time, plus energycompanies won't work either (which idiot works with a constant temperature of minus 30 degrees celsius)

result: we all diiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

/makes notes of thinks to do before 1th of februari.... loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong list
/goes on with his (boring) work

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it's really depressing when news like that are announced

it is freaky to think that in about 17 years, earth might be no more
but then again any asteroid can hit us anytime without us knowing about it. makes you think about living life to its fullest and trying to make each and every passing day worthwhile and not wasting it.

there is nothing we can do but just try not to think about it

first off ice ages come periodically even with out meteors. secondly, there's a theory about a 10th planet in the solar system that collides with the Earth orbit every so an so (i think around 3000) years. just do a search for planet x. there are a zillion sites about this.

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I dont think a real orbiting planet could actually collide with earth. Think of the HUGE dent it would have put in our round planet. If it was small enough not to put a huge dent in us, it would have just smashed straight in and gotten itself destroyed in the process (so it wouldnt be around to orbit any more)

Actually there is one star that swings our way every million (or was it thousand? cant remember) years, and its gravity causes us to be showered with gigantic asteroids.

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Btw, heres an interesting thing I heard. Apparantly, some people now beleive that the dark ages were dark, literally. There have been accounts that for a few years, the sun would only shine for 3 hours a day and the sky was blackened constantly. This is pretty much what happens with an asteroid impact (the dust getting kicked up).

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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

you are the biggest dumbass ever.

what don't you want to believe? that we have a one in six million chance to being hit by an asteroid?

i think cnn, bbc, yahoo, and several other news sources aren't bullshitting you.
you have to believe things. when you read in the news paper the local sports scores, do you not believe them?

i'm sick of a sceptical attidude. of course one should not believe everything one reads, but something like this from several big sources, and that leaves no room for interpretation, (it's not politics) why not believe it?

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it's really depressing when news like that are announced it is freaky to think that in about 17 years, earth might be no more but then again any asteroid can hit us anytime without us knowing about it. makes you think about living life to its fullest and trying to make each and every passing day worthwhile and not wasting it. there is nothing we can do but just try not to think about it

What's more depressing is that you have a much greater chance of dieing before that 17 years is up, hell, one in six million, we have a better chance of nuclear war. just be lucky you are alive.

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Originally posted by nrjizer I dont think a real orbiting planet could actually collide with earth. Think of the HUGE dent it would have put in our round planet. If it was small enough not to put a huge dent in us, it would have just smashed straight in and gotten itself destroyed in the process (so it wouldnt be around to orbit any more) Actually there is one star that swings our way every million (or was it thousand? cant remember) years, and its gravity causes us to be showered with gigantic asteroids.

Hey I don't know if you should believe it or not, but there is alot of very convincing evidence for this. For one, they say that such a large satellite as our moon could only have been created this way (a big planet hits the earth and knocks off a piece which gets caught in orbit). Also they bring alot of biblical quotes from that time that look usual, but when you read them again with in light of this info it explains alot (e.g.: and the sky kingdom came down to earth and the ground and skies shattered or something... )

EDIT> oh i remembered another thing: bout our planet being round. did you know that a long time ago there was only one big continent and all the rest was ocean? well try to imagin how it looks like without the ocean... it would look like half a planet, and when it started to rain all the water concentrated on the lower parts and created the ocean

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Originally posted by hangover Hey I don't know if you should believe it or not, but there is alot of very convincing evidence for this. For one, they say that such a large satellite as our moon could only have been created this way (a big planet hits the earth and knocks off a piece which gets caught in orbit). Also they bring alot of biblical quotes from that time that look usual, but when you read them again with in light of this info it explains alot (e.g.: and the sky kingdom came down to earth and the ground and skies shattered or something... ) EDIT> oh i remembered another thing: bout our planet being round. did you know that a long time ago there was only one big continent and all the rest was ocean? well try to imagin how it looks like without the ocean... it would look like half a planet, and when it started to rain all the water concentrated on the lower parts and created the ocean

thats true about the moon. but that happened at the formation of the solar system. where huge chunks of shit were crashing together on a constant basis. thats how all the terrestrial planets were formed. its not like every few thousand years we have contact with this "Planet X" you refer to.

the one big continent hundreds of millions of years ago was called Pangea. it still had the same fault lines that we have today. they just hadnt separated yet.

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Originally posted by Cafster thats true about the moon. but that happened at the formation of the solar system. where huge chunks of shit were crashing together on a constant basis. thats how all the terrestrial planets were formed. its not like every few thousand years we have contact with this "Planet X" you refer to. the one big continent hundreds of millions of years ago was called Pangea. it still had the same fault lines that we have today. they just hadnt separated yet.

interesting..stuff...asteroids impress me, imagine they could have life on them...

how did the huge chunks form an atmosphere?

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i didnt say they formed the atmosphere. i said they formed the planet itself. the atmosphere wasnt always here. it came about hundreds of millions of years afterthe planet was formed. once all the bits form together slowly things happen. the basic elements behind life (oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, among others) would have begun to react with other elements eventually creating the atmosphere we know. so the huge chunks formed the planet itself.

ill go a bit more into this.

when a star forms it happens in a big ball of gas and other materials. if there is a large gravity scource in the gas field objects and more gas will be drawn towards it. the more things come the more compression and friction there is and thus the more heat. until the heat becomes so much that the gaseous mixture begins fusion and a star is born. around the new star there will still be a big soupy cloud. full of all elements naturally found in the world and in space. in this cloud there are collisions between the large chunks of rock as they orbit the new star. with more collisions these orbiting rocks get bigger and become the planets we know them as. but they wouldnt have had atmospheres yet. they would have been orbiting balls of rock and lava. as millions of years go by, the predominant elements on each planet begin to combine and create an atmosphere of whatever is on that planet. thats why all the planets arent the same. they contain different amounts of different things.

this next thing you should take some time to think about. most star system (a star with or without planets orbiting) are BINARY star systems. they have 2 stars in revolution around eachother. our solar system is the exception instead of the rule. there wasnt enough material for Jupiter (what would have been the 2nd star in the system) to get large enough and hot enough for fusion to take place.

if our system was "normal" we (we being life as we know it) would not be able to exist.