"NASA confirms the 60-meter (197-feet) asteroid... has a good chance of colliding with Earth in elev
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But Facepunch will still be up, right?
RT is practically worse than Fox.
Although Fox is incredibly biased against democrats, RT is biased against reality.
[QUOTE=Thlis;34986744]RT is practically worse than Fox.
Although Fox is incredibly biased against democrats, RT is biased against reality.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say RT is bias against reality, they're just sensationalist. Fox is worse then RT by a longshot, RT actually tries to revise its statements and remove bias.
contents of the article are false, let the thread die
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;34986578]60 meters is about the length of a small cruise ship so I wouldn't be that scared guys[/QUOTE]
I know right, a small, heavy, cruise ship sized rock traveling at something like 20-30 kilometers a second probably wouldn't do much at all right?
[QUOTE=JC Denton;34985152]Imagine if all the air turned into wood. All of the air, ever - just wood.[/QUOTE]
Imagine that all the earth's magma turned into shit, and then there was a vulcano under your house.
[quote][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY[/media][/quote]
If I remember, 60m isn't catastrophic to destroy the world.
But, still :v:
[QUOTE=JC Denton;34985152]Imagine if all the air turned into wood. All of the air, ever - just wood.[/QUOTE]I suspect some people don't get this reference.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6b5icdb7EY[/media]
Most of it will burn in the athmosphere and even then the chances are it hits the sea and at that part it will be too small to cause any serious tidalwaves.
Assuming it even hits us... which I doubt.
The probability will probably rise when they observe it some more. And by that I mean, rise by perhaps 0.01 percent. Also cool gif on their site:
[img]http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/gif/mea-orbit-big.gif[/img]
My 18th birthday is in february 2013.
:(
[QUOTE=Atlascore;34983880]Worst case scenario: It hits a major city
Best case scenario: It hits Rick Santorum's house
Likely scenario: It hits a forest somewhere in Canada or Russia.[/QUOTE]
the best case scenario would be the asteroid hitting nothing but open water
...or maybe not, because tsunamis
fuck
[QUOTE=74;34985978]It's basically an EMP when detonated in space, so we'd be EMP-ing an Asteroid.[/QUOTE]
It'd probably break the asteroid apart into a shitload of smaller pieces which are radioactive too.
60m? depends on where it hits and the impact won't be big since it will mostly burn up in the atmosphere.
Begin the meteor blitzkrieg
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;34985895]I'd like to ask what people think a nuclear strike on an asteroid would do. There is no atmosphere for it, nothing, all the concussive force would be distributed along the path of least resistance, back in to space. You'd have to deliver an actual impact in to it for it have any real effect. It'd be like a grenade in a vacuum compared to a bullet in a vacuum.[/QUOTE]
The energy from the bomb would vaporise some of surface material, knocking off course.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;34989052]The energy from the bomb would vaporise some of surface material, knocking off course.[/QUOTE]Not really.
Will this be the first time a larger asteroid is filmed?
That footage will be amazing.
I remember watching a video on TED about how we can stop asteroids from hitting us.
[url]http://www.ted.com/talks/phil_plait_how_to_defend_earth_from_asteroids.html[/url]
Seems it already been well thought out.
Talk about a fucking sensationalist headline, holy shit. My heartrate jumped a mile. Wow.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;34989308]Talk about a fucking sensationalist headline, holy shit. My heartrate jumped a mile. Wow.[/QUOTE]
The title should be "NASA confirms the 60-meter (197-feet) asteroid... has a 0.02% chance of colliding with Earth in eleven months."
Even then, as long as it didn't hit anything populated, it'd probably burn away and then just be a really big, really hot space rock that landed on the ground.
I see nothing about this on the NASA homepage.
Didnt the tunguska explosion occur above the surface of the earth?
What if this one hits the ground, creates a volcano wich spews ash in the air,
resulting in pyroclastic winter?
Oh wow i've been making jokes about meteors hitting earth this entire week :v:
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;34990219]Didnt the tunguska explosion occur above the surface of the earth?
What if this one hits the ground, creates a volcano wich spews ash in the air,
resulting in pyroclastic winter?[/QUOTE]
i live in the basement and hardly eat
not sure how much a pyroclastic winter would affect me :v:
Chances are it'll fall into the ocean anyway, 78% of our planet is covered in water
[QUOTE=Arandomu;34984286]Better safe than sorry.[/QUOTE]
By that logic we should nuke every country that has so much as a chance to call us names, better safe than sorry right?
I think I would rather it strike deserted land rather than an oceon. Tsunamis are bad.
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