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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+137Obi-Wan: That's no moon. It's a space station.
- baraqiyal, on 10/12/2007, -6/+119I really wish they added the sound of distant screaming as the shadow of the meteor passed over populated areas.
- Warptera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+104Anyone care to explain how Big Ben still exists after that?
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -5/+103carguy, if by "surf" you mean "die because of" and by "wave" you mean "hellish supersonic surge of rushing liquid ejecta before the rim of the expanding transient crater", then you might be able to do that.
- jonbach, on 10/12/2007, -2/+87The school system has failed you. I'm sorry.
- Osiriscky3, on 10/12/2007, -15/+78BOOM HEADSHOT
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+58Fire ze Missiles!!!
- 83457, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54Do you know how big the meteorite is in the video? Looked to be the size of the freakin moon
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53This is how the world ends.
What Halo 3 tells you is a lie. - JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53It's the British Engineering... we have some of the best toys ^_^
... the ancient Greeks stole it off of us. - Osiriscky3, on 10/12/2007, -7/+57Bruce Willis FTW
- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47@ bakagaigin: "Are meteors ever that round when they're that large?"
When meteors/planetoids are that large, they're ONLY round. The gravity of such a large amount of material will cause it to assume a spherical shape (which is why every planet and star is a sphere). You only get irregular space-rocks at the smaller end of the scale. - Bdog2g2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46actually the video is more scientifically valid than u may think. It took a planetoid about the size of Mars to create the moon. The Earth didn't really "shatter" the two became a massive ball of molten material that condensed into two bodies, the Earth, and the Moon. Earths gravitational influence is fairly strong.
With that said it does have a major shock value. - ynggrsshppr, on 10/12/2007, -8/+50And it still works!
I love the happy sounding Japanese narration. - Vineman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41That simulation is more for shock value than anything, if a meteor that size hit the Earth it would be much different than that.
- RonDutt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35You do know that hundreds, perhaps thousands of new people join DIGG on a daily (ok maybe weekly) basis right? I had never seen it before in my life and I really appreciated a chance to see it. Im not going to go through and look at EVERY story to ever hit front page on DIGG just so it doesnt ever get reposted...Sometimes its better to repost...
- Enitime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34Makes for a nice change. In most disaster movies, famous monuments are always the first to go.
- PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35There is an English version that they show on the Discovery channel on a regular basis. They usually have all kinds of Earth ending type events. Super volcano eruptions, mega earth quakes and tsunamis.
Its a pretty good program. - bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40Are meteors ever that round when they're that large?
- baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32In this worst case scenario, the best chance life has would be the deeply buried microorganisms that are still kicking in sediment deposits somewhere on the earth's crust. I would say around the depth of oil deposits, not landfills. There certainly would be plenty of energy in the crust after the impact to sustain life so long as water vapor continued to spew and condense from the mantle.
It's like the Falling Sand game. It's quite easy to cover the screen with green plant growth. And it's also easy to engulf the entire plant growth in flames. But good luck trying to wipe out every single pixel of green with only one burn. And all that is needed for green to take over again is some Spout of water somewhere and a single infintesimally small plant pixel. The same applies to microbes.
Maybe I just want to believe that past 4.5 or so billion years won't be such a waste of computing power. - Aldrenean, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Man, if a meteor this big hit Earth in the Pacific ocean, there would be no tidal wave: the entire ocean would basically boil in a manner of minutes. Also, the force and size of that thing would be enough to crack the planet's crust and at least make a good sized hole in the mantle, possibly splitting the earth in two or more pieces. Plus... why the HELL do Big Ben and the Parthenon survive while the rest of the world is obliterated? I mean... Japan got lifted right off the planet! Other than that, the movie's pretty cool, but only for eye candy.
- rsilva, on 10/12/2007, -14/+44At least all this world cup madness would be over.
- Aldrenean, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35Wait... what? Since when do gravitational fields push away from each other? On the contrary, there would be a significant danger of pulling the moon in for a follow-up punch.
- Enitime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29"With what? 10000 times the nuclear arsenal that entire World currently contains. The largest explosion man has managed to muster is only around 60 megatons. That would look like a zit on that meteor. Sorry, but nothing we have, short of moving the Moon in its way, would stop that thing. The wave of "Earth" at the strike point would be over 100km high."
You don't have to disintegrate it. The earth is hurdling through space at 100,000 kilometers per hour. If you launch a bunch of nukes at it when it's far enough away, slowing it down just a tiny fraction of a per cent, that meteor will miss.
Even massive objects like planets are tiny on a cosmic scale. - CutRock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Soo... all structures are completely demolished, except the well known ones, which are still very distinguishable.
- techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25@davbmn68
"Planets have GRAVITATIONAL fields...not magnetic fields... XD"
umm.. last I checked Earth was a planet and Earth has a magnetic field. - techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Maybe I'm dead wrong, but that looks more like a planetoid than a meteor.. especially with the apparent lava flows on the surface visible in the very beginning of the video
- Bdog2g2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24With what? 10000 times the nuclear arsenal that entire World currently contains. The largest explosion man has managed to muster is only around 60 megatons. That would look like a zit on that meteor. Sorry, but nothing we have, short of moving the Moon in its way, would stop that thing. The wave of "Earth" at the strike point would be over 100km high.
- bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28I'm not sure I want to be the one to say it...but doesn't this remind you of FF7?
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29cue group of asian tourists on the ISS with many large cameras.
- pgouy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+32In Soviet Russia school system fails YOU!
- ant1441, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Imagine if you were in the ISS as you saw that coming, now THAT would be a sight, right up until you got caught up in the rain of meteors coming from the initial impact.
Wonder whether you would survive on a moon base? - Bdog2g2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23@Enitime. Considering that video is partly to scale you're talking about a body that is aproximately 1/10 the diameter of earth (for nice round number) making it about 1,200 km in diamter (approx 765 miles wide).
Its moving about 70,0000 km/h (43,495.9835 mph thx Google).
Assume its a rocky body (which most likely it'll be a rocky body with a solid iron core) with a density of about Earth 5515 kg/m^3.
Plug and chug: its mass is around (904 778 684 kg) so the amount of KE (Kinetic Energy) kinetic energy is about 2.21670778 × 10^18 J. which is about 527.787567 megatons. This doesn't take into accout moments of inertia, momentum, or orbital mechanics. Bottom line it'll take a lot of nukes to make this thing "think" twice about moving. Again this is assuming it is a rocky body, most large asteroids tend to be nickel and iron...which means MORE BOMGS.
ITs just not feesible. Unless u have a photon torpedo on hand. - dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25aaaaaaand were *****.
- Zuggy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22God's bigass reset button
- GraemeF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Looks like the only guy to survive was the one with the camera.
- SkyFire360, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26"The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower."
They obviously haven't met Sephiroth... - RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I'll take the rocket ship to the moon....suckers :D
- JK1150, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Big Ben appeared to have survived though! I will be sure to go there if there is an impending meteor strike.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23cool video, now for the flash cartoon version for those who haven't seen it:D
http://www.endofworld.net/
check it out! - delong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Improbable, not impossible. On a cosmic timescale, even the "improbable" is inevitable.
- gcube9x, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21we'd definitely try to destroy it before it hit us...
- soleblazer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Don't be fooled, this is nothing more than the intro to Final Fantasy XIV which will come out to bail the PS3 out.
- ChrisPikula, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I just wish hollywood would make a movie where the meteor wins.
- Bdog2g2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21Firefox v7? is our best weapon....maybe because it comes with the Google sync tool. ;-)
- Phoenixfury, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I think we should put them both on ice while we still got them. Then if a global killer comes anywhere near us, we can thaw them out... They'll be pissed for sure, so you know no meteor will stand a chance against these two. :)
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Click on the "more" link to the right of the video and you can read what she is saying in English.
- deesine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16>"Even massive objects like planets are tiny on a cosmic scale."
Which makes earth-scaled objects like nukes even that much smaller. - eonblue, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21Cue: one winged angel
SEPH-I-ROTH
Gaia will save us. - dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+126.5 billion
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