[url]http://gizmodo.com/5383799/an-asteroid-could-have-killed-us-tonight[/url]
[quote]Rejoice, because you are alive: An asteroid named 2009 TM8 just passed only 216,000 miles from Earth, racing at 18,163mph. That's closer than the moon. But don't worry, there'll be plenty of opportunities to panic, says the JPL:
[quote] If it's typical density, it would create a 4 kiloton explosion in the Earth's atmosphere if it were to hit, which of course it won't. You'd expect an object of this size to fly within the orbit of the moon every few days or so.[/quote]
That's what Don Yeomans—manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California—said talking about 2009 TM8 and the other 7 million objects in the near-Earth space which, "needless to say we have discovered only a small fraction of them."
Great. At 30 feet, something like 2009 TM8 is not as big as the killer Apophis or as the superkiller that can destroy everything on Earth. But who cares about destroying everything when this thing is large enough to annihilate Brooklyn.
Ah well, as if I needed any excuses to celebrate after this sodding Friday. Zacapa rum, here I come[/quote]
*Could have.
I was sleeping anyway.
And that chance is 1 in a million
If you ask me, the Earth seems like a pretty small target compared to how big of a distance we consider a 'close call'
Damnit so clo-
I mean, horray!
how did we not hear of something so close sooner
2012 almost came early huh
....:eek:..:ohdear:
My reaction when I read the OP.
It doesn't really matter, we wouldn't be able to stop something like that anyway.
We live another day.
We die another day.
Awww
Then we eat tacos and the day is over...
[B][I]Arr going according to pran...[/I][/B]
[QUOTE=AteBitLord;17873450]We die another day.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.independentcritics.com/images/die%20another%20day%20SPLASH.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=TAU!;17873421]It doesn't really matter, we wouldn't be able to stop something like that anyway.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://redriverautographs.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bruce-willis-armageddon-photograph-c10102105.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=RJ102;17873465][img]http://www.independentcritics.com/images/die%20another%20day%20SPLASH.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That's the joke.
Wait, I've heard of this [b]asteroid[/b] before.
This is the one that freaked out NASA and was supposedly one of the 2012 disasters, oh well. We can finally rest our minds about this 2012 business.
We didn't [i]almost[/i] die, a miss is a miss, regardless of the distance.
[QUOTE=AteBitLord;17873474]That's the joke.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://images.art.com/images/-/Roger-Moore---James-Bond--C10102109.jpeg[/img]
?
[QUOTE=Jack Bryce;17873482]We didn't [i]almost[/i] die, a miss is a miss, regardless of the distance.[/QUOTE]
we don't have to be in the process of dying to have come close to death
[QUOTE=AteBitLord;17873486]Oh fuck you. :suicide:[/QUOTE]
That's such a cliched pun.
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;17873496]That's such a cliched pun.[/QUOTE]
Touché.
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;17873475]Wait, I've heard of this meteor before.
This is the one that freaked out NASA and was supposedly one of the 2012 disasters, oh well. We can finally rest our minds about this 2012 business.[/QUOTE]
AGHH! It's not a meteor dammit. A meteor is anything that is currently in our atmosphere, when it lands it's a meteorite, and if it's in space it's a comet/asteroid.
GET IT RIGHT. :science:
[QUOTE=haloguy234;17873507]AGHH! It's not a meteor dammit. A meteor is anything that is currently in our atmosphere, when it lands it's a meteorite, and if it's in space it's a comet/asteroid.
GET IT RIGHT. :science:[/QUOTE]
I'm a computer science freak, not a astro-science freak, there's a big difference.
But fix'd anyways.
[editline]11:30PM[/editline]
Nucular.
"It was closer than the moon"
That phrase means nothing. Apophis is supposed to dip so low into the atmosphere that it will actually be closer than some satellites.
[QUOTE=TAU!;17873421]It doesn't really matter, we wouldn't be able to stop something like that anyway.[/QUOTE]
We have several plans to save ourselves from asteroids.
One is to fly a rocket nearby the traveling asteroid while it is in orbit heading toward Earth. The small gravitational force from the rocket pulling on the asteroid would be just enough to throw it off course to where it will miss Earth.
Oh ya and there is blowing it up.
[QUOTE=AteBitLord;17873498]Touché.[/QUOTE]
Admit it, Die Another Day sucked :frogc00l:
[QUOTE=RJ102;17873580]Admit it, Die Another Day sucked :frogc00l:[/QUOTE]
hey crabman
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