[Stratovarius]

This is what happens if you cannot divert an asteroid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38tNJS9lo9I

[AWPrime]

1. That isn't an astroid that is a planetoid.
2. No it won't from a bucket of lava
3. The impact itself will shatter every continantal plate into tiny bits.
4. No building would survive.

[emailking]

That would probably be enough to melt the surface and possibly enough to knock earth out of orbit or at least into a significantly different orbit.

[Novus]

There are a few super large asteroids between 100 and 500 miles wide. They have regular orbits for the most part and are billions of years old. They don't intersect any other orbits and that is why they are still around. Even in astronomical terms their chances of hitting the earth is pretty much zero.

[Stratovarius]

I like how humans just say the odds of something happening is near zero so they don't think about it.

But what if something was like this headed our way and we had no way to stop it. Oops. Billions of people dead and possibly the only advanced civilization in the universe gone.

[Novus]

I love how humans surmise their civilization is the only advanced one in the universe without even thinking about it. If all humans do get wiped out by an asteroid then in the grand scheme of things it is really no big loss.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'I') love how humans surmise their civilization is the only advanced one in the universe without even thinking about it. If all humans do get wiped out by an asteroid then in the grand scheme of things it is really no big loss.

[Kingcoal]

Actually, I've come to the conclusion that we should quit worrying about Peak Oil and the like and start worrying about objects hitting the earth. I mean, no oil sucks, but on the suck-o-meter, large impacts definately beat out PO.

[Zardoz]

That "asteroid" was almost as big as the moon. A direct hit like that would pop Earth like a balloon. They didn't model the fantastic increase in the planet's internal pressure at all.

Pretty lame and inaccurate, actually.

[Dreamtwister]

Currently, the "most dangerous" asteroid out there is 1950 DA. It *might* (0.33% chance) be on a collision course in 2880.

Don't we have enough to worry about? Come on.

[Novus]

If you think that asteroid is bad take a look at This. No more earth at all in 6000 years. It bring new meaning to the biblical quote: "And the earth, moon, and sun shall pass away."

Even if it misses us by millions of miles or even billions of miles we would still get sucked into it.

Or it could happen next year if this Experiment goes wrong. The scientists say it is "unlikely" to distroy the earth and the chances of something going wrong is "totally miniscule." Yeah totally. I don't think they should be doing it if it has any chance at all to distroy the Earth.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'I')f you think that asteroid is bad take a look at This. No more earth at all in 6000 years. It bring new meaning to the biblical quote: "And the earth, moon, and sun shall pass away."

Even if it misses us by millions of miles or even billions of miles we would still get sucked into it.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'I')f you think that asteroid is bad take a look at This. No more earth at all in 6000 years. It bring new meaning to the biblical quote: "And the earth, moon, and sun shall pass away."

Even if it misses us by millions of miles or even billions of miles we would still get sucked into it.

Or it could happen next year if this Experiment goes wrong. The scientists say it is "unlikely" to distroy the earth and the chances of something going wrong is "totally miniscule." Yeah totally. I don't think they should be doing it if it has any chance at all to distroy the Earth.

[Stratovarius]

Black holes are created every single second in Earth's atmosphere. We are bombarded with an incredible amount of cosmic particle and when they hit the atmosphere, the energy released creates a tiny black hole.

The reason they don't "devour" all matter is because due to quantum mechanical randomness, they "evaporate".

This is a book length discussion anyway so I'm dropping it now.

[Anthrobus]

usually (in the movies) everything alien is coming down in the united states or directly on the lawn of the white house. That doesn't sound too threatening to me as a european.

The greek temple in the video was kap sunion i suppose; nice to make it survive an impact of such a magnitung in the video, however unlikely.

The detailed effects of the impact of an object of lesser size would be more interesting.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')You shall have your galactic event...it is called global warming and the fact is it appears to be happening ALL throughout the galaxy...not just earth.

[emailking]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'I')f you think that asteroid is bad take a look at This. No more earth at all in 6000 years. It bring new meaning to the biblical quote: "And the earth, moon, and sun shall pass away."

Even if it misses us by millions of miles or even billions of miles we would still get sucked into it.

[emailking]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', 'B')lack holes are created every single second in Earth's atmosphere. We are bombarded with an incredible amount of cosmic particle and when they hit the atmosphere, the energy released creates a tiny black hole.

The reason they don't "devour" all matter is because due to quantum mechanical randomness, they "evaporate".

This is a book length discussion anyway so I'm dropping it now.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emailking', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', 'B')lack holes are created every single second in Earth's atmosphere. We are bombarded with an incredible amount of cosmic particle and when they hit the atmosphere, the energy released creates a tiny black hole.

The reason they don't "devour" all matter is because due to quantum mechanical randomness, they "evaporate".

This is a book length discussion anyway so I'm dropping it now.