We could of all died from a asteroid tonight - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Sams Brume;17877593]To put this into perspective for all of you: [img]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4808/omigawdnooooo.png[/img][/QUOTE] And they made a fuss over that?

I'm a bit frightened this got by NASA, what if something much bigger is heading our way?

[QUOTE=Mikesword221;17877289]Don't you mean [i]last night[/i]? :smug:[/QUOTE] thread was created last night

[QUOTE=Zoo;17873573]Oh ya and there is blowing it up.[/QUOTE] Then it'll be more like a shotgun blast. :ohdear:

4kt is less than the Hiroshima nuke and less than Tunguska. We could not have all died. Gotta love people rating you dumb for informed factual comments.

Jesus, when shit like this happens it makes me think "What are the odds?" the universe is so big, what are the odds that it would even come CLOSE to earth? reminds of the saying "The only tree in the desert and you crashed the plane into it" or something like that.

We're kinda luckeh with it. I didn't do anything for the entire world to die yet. Would be a shame.

Not bigger than Apophis, and not even Apophis would do apocalyptic damage. Rejoice, this is media hype comparable only to the H1N1 doohickey.

Whatever I slept pretty good last night, I wouldn't mind if we all died.

If humanity is to ever become extinct, i want it to be by the hands of other humans, not some pussy asteroid. Which way would you rather go out, some fucking rock, or show the aliens spying on us (:ninja:) that you didn't want to fuck with us. plus, if aliens ever want to take the earth after we're long dead, i want it to be uninhabitable due to beind radioactive. if it were the last week of earth, because some solar flare shit, or some rock thing is coming to destroy us, i want somebody to say 'fuck it' and nuke the fuck out of the world.

[QUOTE=Dragon;17873374]If you ask me, the Earth seems like a pretty small target compared to how big of a distance we consider a 'close call'[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's like 21 Earth radii away.

[QUOTE=Dragon;17873374]If you ask me, the Earth seems like a pretty small target compared to how big of a distance we consider a 'close call'[/QUOTE] True, but scaling on an astrological level does differ quite a bit from what we consider large or small in everyday life. Though the odds seem small (and in truth they are) they're a lot better odds than we would like.

[QUOTE=Sams Brume;17877593]To put this into perspective for all of you: [img]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4808/omigawdnooooo.png[/img][/QUOTE] Now that you put it that way, there was no reason to be panicked about this. I blame my lack of physics knowledge. Knowing Earth's gravitational pull keeps the Moon around us, I would think an asteroid that's half the distance of the moon would cause a concern. The Earth could pull it right into it. But I guess it was moving at such a high rate of speed, it never had a chance.

I was only 216,000 miles away from dying and I didn't even know it.

[QUOTE=pointyface;17877765]I'm a bit frightened this got by NASA, what if something much bigger is heading our way?[/QUOTE] There's really no reason to assume that. Just because a small asteroid floats by over 200,000 miles away doesn't mean it's like Armageddon where small asteroids precede one the size of Texas.

[QUOTE=pointyface;17877765]I'm a bit frightened this got by NASA, what if something much bigger is heading our way?[/QUOTE] NASA probably did know about it, but could see that it didn't pose a threat. Why cause unnecessary panic?

[QUOTE=IceTea;17882064]I was only 216,000 miles away from dying and I didn't even know it.[/QUOTE] You're probably a lot closer than that.

[QUOTE=haloguy234;17873468][img]http://redriverautographs.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bruce-willis-armageddon-photograph-c10102105.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] it doesn't really work like it does in the movie fyi [editline]03:50PM[/editline] [QUOTE=MS-DOS4;17875400]Don't worry folks, I got that bastard right here. He won't harm anybody now. [media]http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9640/dsc00394q.jpg[/media] [media]http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8938/dsc00396v.jpg[/media][/QUOTE] you care very little about that mac GOOD ONYA

I read as "We could have all died from a steroid tonight"

Brooklyn = 96.sq miles not allot. So some people would of died

Asteroid you say? [IMG]http://www.gridcycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/asteroids_game_screen.jpg[/IMG]

It's funny, how humans like to think they control everything. They like to think because they are so superior, and have such advanced technology they can control the earth, and it's surroundings. Thinking that they can nuke an asteroid, not realising the fact we probably won't even see the astroid, that is going to destroy us coming. All our history, all what we think is important, can vanish in a moment. And nothing we can do about it. [QUOTE=microsnakey;17883921]Brooklyn = 96.sq miles not allot. So some people would of died[/QUOTE] That astroid would create one [i]black[/i] hole :v:

So that doesn't make you a human too? Or are you a talking burger by the looks of your avatar? You're saying "those humans" to make it sound like you're not one of them. I'm not dumb. I'm just going by what you're saying.

Oh well, I've always wanted to meet Jesus.

Eh... who gives a fuck, we're still alive aint we?

like trying to hit a grain of rice in a football field 7 miles away with a grenade launcher

Well, after just getting home from the most amazing concert of my life, I can safely say that I would have died happy.

Damnit, sometimes I do hope for Misanthropy.

Why is it that the source says big enough to annihilate brooklyn, but OP says all of us? Is he assuming that everyone on Facepunch is situated in Brooklyn? Or is a 4 kiloton explosion enough to destroy the surface of earth?

[QUOTE=AteBitLord;17873450]We die another day.[/QUOTE] Aren't you the man with the golden gun? I hope you have a license to kill. Oh yeah, and golden eyes. Those are so intimidating.