Goodbye Earth. VIDEO.

[QuettaKid]

incredibly sobering look at a MASSIVE asteroid smashing into the planet.

http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/weblog.php?/weblog/more/meteorite_collision/

[RebelOne]

1. That is frightening.

[Ravenseye]

2. Cool

Just like in the movie Armageddon. What that video doesn't show is the super secret space shuttles flying up before it hits with Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and a bunch of other actors to split it in two so it bypasses the earth entirely.

Seriously though, we need to get our asses off just one planet. AT least get a viable colony going on Mars, then we need to start getting into other systems. The human race won't be safe until we're spread across at least 20 light years of space or more.

[QuettaKid]

3. what makes you think we will be safe even then?

By that time Cheney will probably be thawed and on his 5th incarnation as an evil galactic lord or something.:P :P :P

[madrchsod]

4. have you seen the one where the pong

saves the planet? really cool..who knew the pong game could save the earth

[LSK]

5. i wonder if that happened to Mars?

[Piscis Austrinus]

10. I doubt it

Mars has far less water and a much thinner atmosphere than Earth... even assuming that once the atmosphere there was warmer and wetter, a hole as big as the one we're seeing in this simulation wouldn't erode away even over millions of years. If that happened to Mars, we'd have learned about it from the Mariner missions in the 70's.

Makes you think... even the impact crater in Antarctica - the one believed to have caused the Permian extinction - and the crater at the floor of the Gulf of Mexico don't begin to compare to this simulation's result. We're talking a major collision here, even on the scale of the solar system.

Thankfully, the number of objects in the solar system of a given size appears to vary inversely with the size of those objects. There are plenty of 1/2-mile sub-asteroidal objects, but comparatively few objects of even a 30-mile size, and only about three dozen exceeding 1000 miles. Moreover, the scale of space is kind of dizzying. To imagine the odds, imagine randomly firing BB's into a space the size of the Astrodome, and hitting a moving billiard ball somewhere in that space. Not only that, but you can only fire 10,000 BB's, and there are 40 other billard balls floating around, in addition to the one you're concerned with hitting. It could happen, but the odds are pretty low (or we'd be dead already). There are other factors involved as well, but most of those tend to decrease rather than increase the odds of such a collision. Not that it can't happen - certainly it could - but the odds are, well, remote.

Also, from the simulation, it should be painfully obvious that no underground shelter would be safe; the seismic event accompanying such an event would probably cause a cave-in, and the heat induction would almost certainly roast the shelter's inhabitants fairly quickly, regardless of their location on earth. A space station wouldn't even be safe because there's no way to know how the ejecta plume would behave, or where such a putative strike would be. As with all titanic events, if you're close enough to view it with the unaided eye, you're probably entirely too close.

Peace
PsA

[Rainscents]

6. I saw this video last week on Coast2Coast web site...

Something is happening... NASA is acting strange by withholding informations, Government just had there under-bunker exercise and scientist are finding missing or dead.

[QuettaKid]

7. Uhm. . . . what are you talking about exactly?

""Government just had there under-bunker exercise and scientist are finding missing or dead.""



:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[Rainscents]

11. Yea, you didn't know about June 19th Under Bunker Exercise???

Here is the link...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410.html

I'm surprise, you haven't heard about Scientist going missing or found dead last 5 years.

[Thor_MN]

8. Hell, that would be classified as a planet.

I especially liked how it had glowing magma seeping through cracks in its surface long before it reached the atmosphere... Are the producers of this working for Shrub?

[Radio_Lady]

9. OK. So the success or failure of "Superman Returns" is not on YOUR mind?

Where is the "Man of Steel" when we really need him?