Some asteroid may collide with Earth in September 2004!

[manuelgv]

If it's unavoidable at some point we could all blame it on Bruce Willis and at least have some fun burning him alive in our last days alive

 

[xenophobe]

It's not going to happen. It'll pass 4x the distance of the moon. Relax

The last near miss was only 1.5x the distance of the moon. So this one should be cake.

Oh, and the one that will get us is one we won't see until it's too late

 

[FailingAcension]

Oh, and the one that will get us is one we won't see until it's too late

Because of its cloaking-device.

 

[manuelgv]

Asteroids will be the end of mankind!!!!


(I mean the video game)

 

[Wandrail]

First thing - Maxim is not a very good source for this kind of information. Funny japanese stereotypes and scantily clad women, it provides in good quantities, accurate reporting it does not.

Second thing - everyone is right, it is slated to miss us by a wide margin and if it entered our atmosphere, by the time it is hitting the ground it will have reduced in size to the point of being practically harmless. Unless of course you happen to be standing right there, in which case, odds being as slim as they are - it was clearly your time to go.

 

[manuelgv]

But what if it's the size of a basketball and it hits a building?
The pieces could kill more people.

 

[Wandrail]

Contrary to the propaganda-bilge spouted by environmental;ist wackos, the VAST majority of the world is not populated with buildings or people. The likelihood of this happening is therefore very small. Now go read The Colour Out of Space by HP Lovecraft or watch Night of the Living Dead and you'll feel much better about what might happen when such objects from outer space make their way to our soil.

 

[SpiritCrusherX]

@ Wandrail: Thanks for that info. Now I am fully convinced that this is nothing to worry about.

Thank you everyone for making me feel so much better, I couldn't stop thinking about this since I read the Maxim feature yesterday, but now I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. You guys rule, thanks.

 

[EagleFlyFree]

@mourningstar: don't be too sure that it's that much easy to detect incoming objects; last year they detected this asteroid that flew past the earth and only missed by a (relatively) small margin, and they only detected it after it flew by

and something that would only injure a single person would never get past the atmosphere; if something makes it then it's big enough to remove some massive amount of dirt

and also, i visit a website reguarily called shacknews.com, about gaming news and stuff
and everytime there's one of these killer asteroid stories, they put up a link saying "WE'RE GONNA DIE"
and this is seriously something that would fit there haha
WE'RE GONNA DIE! YET AGAIN!

 

[rahvin]

@last year they detected this asteroid that flew past the earth and only missed by a (relatively) small margin, and they only detected it after it flew by

and only because a meteorology scientist had his hair ruffled by a very suspicious gust of wind.

 

[mourningstar]

@mourningstar: don't be too sure that it's that much easy to detect incoming objects; last year they detected this asteroid that flew past the earth and only missed by a (relatively) small margin, and they only detected it after it flew by

and how big that was? i find it difficult to imagine that huge things that are collision hazards aren't monitored. but still, if you say so, i have no reasons to think you're particularly wrong.

and something that would only injure a single person would never get past the atmosphere; if something makes it then it's big enough to remove some massive amount of dirt

what goes through the atmosphere reduces in size, crumbles and finally looks like michael jackson's face; "something that would only injure a single person" could be the result of "something big enough to remove some massive amount of dirt".
funny the most common things that fall on the ground coming from the outer space are the remains of old satellites and various crap left orbiting around by us.

 

[rahvin]

"something that would only injure a single person" could be the result of "something big enough to remove some massive amount of dirt".

so my vacuum cleaner will eventually fall from the sky and knock somebody down? you just made my day a little brighter.

 

[deadlord]

well if we are going to die anyway.......i may aswell get rid of a few ppl b4 hand. for example eminem.ahhh. but i wouldnt worry man, we all have to die at some stage, and no one could stop it if it was on a destruction path with earth.

 

[rahvin]

well if we are going to die anyway.......i may aswell get rid of a few ppl b4 hand. for example eminem.ahhh. but i wouldnt worry man, we all have to die at some stage, and no one could stop it if it was on a destruction path with earth.

a fatalistic eminem-hater! i sure hope if we die soon for any reason i don't get to spend the rest of eternity with you.

 

[Niklas]

you read it in Maxim? haha, id believe it more if it was in a postman pat comic

 

[Ethereal Sage]

Whether or not it hits, why do people worry about things that they can't change? If one can change it, then one has reason to worry, cause it is down to free will. If one can't change it, why does one waste their energy contibuting to the inevitable? Why doesn't one make the most of what they have? Entertaining fear is asking for trouble. Fear is not knowing what will happen. If you know you are going to die, accept it, and do what you can with the time you have left...you will then have beaten Fear, which seems to have a stranglehold on too many of the population.

 

[rahvin]

you will then have beaten Fear,

and a fat lot of good that will do to you when you're toasted alive by the incoming asteroid.

 

[Ethereal Sage]

and a fat lot of good that will do to you when you're toasted alive by the incoming asteroid.

I do not deny that fact for those that think along your lines, I merely point another point of view across, maybe for those that think there is more to existance than life as we 'know' it now, in this world.

 

[Hitori]

and a fat lot of good that will do to you when you're toasted alive by the incoming asteroid.

see, rep was made for these ocassions

 

[mourningstar]

Whether or not it hits, why do people worry about things that they can't change? If one can change it, then one has reason to worry, cause it is down to free will. If one can't change it, why does one waste their energy contibuting to the inevitable? Why doesn't one make the most of what they have? Entertaining fear is asking for trouble. Fear is not knowing what will happen. If you know you are going to die, accept it, and do what you can with the time you have left...you will then have beaten Fear, which seems to have a stranglehold on too many of the population.

oh c'mon, do you read epictetus when you're sitting on the wc?