ASTEROID!!!! FOR REAL THIS TIME!!!!

[HBox]

So I'm reading this article on Christmas Eve. (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/12/24/asteroid.ap/index.html)

There's a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.

OK. A little worrisome, but after further study, these things always get ruled out as next to impossible.

Then I read this. (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2004-12-25-meteor-potential-hit_x.htm)

The asteroid's chance for hitting Earth on April 13, 2029 has now been categorized as a 4 on the Torino Scale. The level 4 rating - never before issued - is reserved for "events meriting concern" versus the vast majority of potentially threatening asteroids that merely merit "careful monitoring."

The Dec. 24 update from NASA states:

"2004 MN4 is now being tracked very carefully by many astronomers around the world, and we continue to update our risk analysis for this object. Today's impact monitoring results indicate that the impact probability for April 13, 2029 has risen to about 1.6%, which for an object of this size corresponds to a rating of 4 on the ten-point Torino Scale. Nevertheless, the odds against impact are still high, about 60 to 1, meaning that there is a better than 98% chance that new data in the coming days, weeks, and months will rule out any possibility of impact in 2029."

OK. We're down to 1 to 60ish. But there's still no reason to worry, there's still a 98% chance it's not the end of the world. heh heh heh..........

Current Estimates. (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ip?2.2e-02)

2.200000000% chance of Earth impact

or

1 in 45 chance

or

97.80000000% chance the asteroid will miss the Earth

I don't like where this is headed.



Who lives in a body bag under the sea?

[Snoogans]

yea that doesnt seemm too good

ill be a hell of alot more worried in 2028 when that number is 97.8% it WILL hit earth

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I'm getting ready!!!

100 qts applesause
100 gallons gatorade
1000 packets of ramen noodles
200 lbs of peanut butter
1000 packets of Wheatsworths

Lots of porn.

Lots of beer and champagne.


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It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

[Snoogans]

1000 packets of ramen noodles


cup o noodles are better, less of a pain in the ass and dont make a bowl dirty, which is key when you are lazy

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[Doomstone]

What good will noodles do you when your microwave is al blown up?

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[Snoogans]

microwave god thats worse then the noodles are naturally.

you use fire to boil water and pour it in, its not rocket science, im sure someone could get fire, especially since a BIG FLAMING ASTEROID just hit us

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[HBox]

I just realized it'd take a miracle for me to live that long, and now I'm kinda bummed I'll miss the devastation. If there is an afterlife, I'd love to say:

"Yeah, I died when a huge asteroid crashed into me" or

"I died when the bulding I was in collapsed in the super-mega-ton earthquakes following impact" or

"I died when a superheated megafast wall of dust vaporized me" or

"I froze to death in the ultra frigid sun-less eternal winter that engulfed the earth following impact" or

"I was beaten and eaten alive in the lawless aftermath of the impact, when all governments ceased to be and raving gangs of cannibals roamed the land, consuming all who entered their glare." or

"I was a member of a raving gang of cannibals and lived for a surprisingly long time following the devastation, feasting on the innards of countless innocents.

That'd rock.



Who lives in a body bag under the sea?

This message was edited by HBox on 12-27-04 @ 2:43 AM

[Snoogans]

its not that far off man, 25 years, shit i might even be alive still

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I'll have porn and champagne!

Ahh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

[Doomstone]

I'm sure after the asteroid hits, the survivors won't be flocking to the crash site to cook some noodles...

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[Snoogans]

well then they are inefficient morons, while me and alice will be sitting there around the nice warm fire, enjoying our noodles

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[Doomstone]

What if it crashes in Siberia? Will you travel there to cook your noodls?

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

and porn. I'll have the dvd/video player.


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It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

DOOMSTONE! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!


LET me and snoog enjoy our ramen noodles and porn, OKAY?

SHEESH!


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It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

[Snoogans]

yea, plus if it lands in siberia, then ill enjoy the noodles in my goddamn house, cause it wont matter

and the porn

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[Doomstone]

As long as porn survives, I can live with eating noodles in Siberia...

Still don't know if rubbing stcks together is enough.

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[Bulldogcakes]

Fuzzy, if the power is knocked out, how will you watch your porn?

This sucks. A fortune teller told me I'm only going to live until 2028. I'll miss all the fun.

Chance of earth being hit by asteriod 1-300
Chance of you getting hit with Hemmorhiods 1 in 2 (by age 50)

What do you think you should be worrying about more?!
Eat some fucking fiber and forget about the Big Boulide!

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This message was edited by Bulldogcakes on 12-27-04 @ 7:06 AM

[booster11373]

atari has been working on this problem for years im not worried

[Reephdweller]

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Perhaps we could send up some guys to drill down towards the core of the asteroid and then drop a nuke in it to make it get all blowed up.

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[Furtherman]

A 1 in 45 chance still gives us a chance, especially due to the vastness of space, but I hope this will wake up the world's govenments to realize that more man power is needed to spot these bastards that are wizzing by us every hour of every day.

As for even a small scale impact, in geoligical time, we're due for one.



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[FUNKMAN]

and with my luck it will probably ding my windshield and i'll get that small crack that eventually spreads across the whole window and there goes 250 bucks 'out the window'...

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[Bill From Yorktown]

forget noodles and porn - all I need is a gun!!!!!!!!!!

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[NewYorkDragons80]

Is 1,300 feet a "global killer"? I'm sure it would cause an assload of damage, but I don't think that's big enough to destroy complex life on earth.

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This message was edited by NewYorkDragons80 on 12-27-04 @ 8:13 PM

[sr71blackbird]

I have been waiting my whole life for an impact like that. With any luck, it hits the mideast.

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[keithy_19]

24 years. I'll be 40. I'll probably be in a bad marrigae, a dead end job, and I'll have a drinking problem. I say, bring it on you asteroid son of a bitch!

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[Johnny4]

Wouldn't it be easier to teach astonauts to drill than to teach drillers to be astronauts?

For example: Kindest Regards, Your Name

[Se7en]

I just realized it'd take a miracle for me to live that long, and now I'm kinda bummed I'll miss the devastation.

You're not going to live another 25 years?

I mean, I know, no one can predict the future, but shit, I'm counting on being around for at least twice that many years.

Let's see, if this thing hits I'll be around 50.....so I might not care whether the world ends or not. Although I might want to stick around for the aftermath, as long as I can join the fight against the hordes of flesh-eating mutants that are certain to arise from the ashes of our broken world.

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[Reephdweller]

PROBLEM SOLVED


Damn that thing is fucked up. I can see it being a serious cause of traffic accidents or worse because some shithead kids will get their hands on it.

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[Recyclerz]

I'm kinda bummed I'll miss the devastation. If there is an afterlife, I'd love to say:

...

"I was beaten and eaten alive in the lawless aftermath of the impact, when all governments ceased to be and raving gangs of cannibals roamed the land, consuming all who entered their glare." Or

I was a member of a raving gang of cannibals and lived for a surprisingly long time following the devastation, feasting on the innards of countless innocents.


Yeah, cheer up HBox! As Se7en kindly reminds us in his sig, we have four more years of W! And I'd say it's 50/50 that we'll at least have something close to your last two scenarios over the next 4 years! :)

On the (other) bright side:

This would eliminate the Social Security/Medicare funding problems; and

I'll have 25 years to build up my supplies of Viagara and Cristal, cuz (if oral contracts are still valid) as the last man on Earth I'll be expecting a lot of long-overdue returned calls from the Ladeez, yeaaah. ;)



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[FUNKMAN]

probably be alot less devastating if it lands on land than in the ocean


unless it hits your house, then that would suck

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[Zipgun]

unless it hits your house, then that would suck



Eh, might not be that bad.

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[Snoogans]

Is 1,300 feet a "global killer"? I'm sure it would cause an assload of damage, but I don't think that's big enough to destroy complex life on earth.


keep in mind, whatever size it is now, itll be smaller when it gets here, cause some, if not all of it, will burn up when it gets to our atmosphere. assuming it hits the earth being that big, factoring in surrounding damage, 1300 FOOT asteroid would be lucky to take out newark

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[Bulldogcakes]

I have been waiting my whole life for an impact like that. With any luck, it hits the mideast.

Problem solved, proving once and for all that there is a God.

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[Bulldogcakes]

24 years. I'll be 40. I'll probably be in a bad marrigae, a dead end job, and I'll have a drinking problem. I say, bring it on you asteroid son of a bitch!


That's the spirit! Why with that kind of attitude you . . . . .should . . . . be 40, in a bad marriage, a dead end job, and have a drinking problem.


apparently your marriage will be so bad, it's unspellable



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[mothershucker]

probably be alot less devastating if it lands on land than in the ocean.

Yeah, those lil' Tsunami's this thing would cause would probably do no damage at all. Silly goose.

I shucked it, and I shucked it, and I shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker

[Bulldogcakes]

Wouldn't it be easier to teach astonauts to drill than to teach drillers to be astronauts?

How bout we just drill the Teachers.



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This message was edited by Bulldogcakes on 12-27-04 @ 11:11 PM

[Snoogans]

there are apparently a shitload of 12 year olds already doin that BDC

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[keithy_19]

apparently your marriage will be so bad, it's unspellable


No, I'll just be retarted and therefore spelling will be hard.

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[FollowThisLogic]

Apparently, the probability has changed again. (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html) Now it's not gonna hit.

Interesting thing is, the size has gone up to 450m, and the mass nearly doubled.

But when it was going to hit, the impact energy was going to be equal to 1500 megatons of TNT. The biggest nuke ever tested was 50 megatons, and that destroyed something like a 35km radius....

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damn, i was looking forward to this.

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[mothershucker]

Apparently, the probability has changed again.


I never made it all the way through college (Though I doubt it would have helped if I did), what the fuck does that mean?
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[Furtherman]

<p>Here we go again!</p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/CSM/story?id=976463&page=1" target="_blank">Large Space Rock May Collide With Earth in 2036</a></p><p><img height="188" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/pd_asteroid_050726_vt.jpg" width="141" border="0" /></p>

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[King Imp]

<p>Here's some food for thought. What if when we &quot;nudge&quot; these asteroids to avoid us, we wind up setting them up on a collision course with a distant alien race? They sure are gonna be pissed at us for that. </p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Someone already had that idea.&nbsp; Maybe you've forgotten a little thing I like to call THE BUG PLANET!?&nbsp; HMMMM!?!?!?</p>

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<p>A little trivia for you about how close we came to getting smashed:</p><p>On this day in 1972-A meteor blazes northward across North America, barely missing the Earth.&nbsp; At its lowest point, above Montana, the meteor reached an altitude of less than 60 km, low enough to trigger a sonic boom.&nbsp; It steadily gained altitude as it passed over Manitoba and disappeared into space.&nbsp; If it had collided with the Earth, astronomers believe the blast would have equaled the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. <br /></p>

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