youtube.com — The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower. In the impact at the same time as colliding The earth's crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off.
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zuggyJun 11, 2006
God's bigass reset button
heresy_fnordJun 12, 2006
"That simulation is more for shock value than anything, if a meteor that size hit the Earth it would be much different than that."Welcome to Digg.com where everyone is a scientist! And a tech guru. And a critic.
miklopsJun 12, 2006
Now, how about this for a project - we have the video, we have the engrish translation, someone could correct that and try and sync it to the video as subtitles. Maybe better to talk to someone who is fluent on Japanese.Best end-of-the-world video I've ever seen!
heretushiJun 16, 2006
Chuck Norris would.
grgt1994Jun 16, 2006
What a waste of computing power. They should have drawn that as an animation with crayons, because there were no actual physics involved. First of all, a body that size is not a meteor, far too big. It's not even an asteroid. It's a planet.Second, something that big would accelerate massively as it approaches Earth. So there would be no dramatic shadow moving across the Earth's surface. Just a lightning fast blip, then impact.Finally, an impact of that magnitude would obliterate Earth into fragments.Lame.
jmdajrJun 19, 2006
scary!!!!!!!!!!!
felchdonkeyJun 23, 2006
I think it's more of an acronym whose meaning has been changed to fit the malapropism. The original phrase was "CG" as in "Computer Generated" or "Computer Graphics."A lot of people started mixing up CGI with CG, maybe because they had heard the letters CGI somewhere, or from a confusion with SGI (Silicon Graphics, who made most of the high-end CG boxes for film effects). Mostly, I think CGI just rolls off the tounge easier than CG.Since people were using the wrong acronym anyway, some people have just said f**k it and revised the acronym itself, so that now CGI can mean "Computer Generated Images."I'm with you, though. It still makes me wince when I hear CGI instead of CG.Oh well. People say "ATM Machine," too. Can't win 'em all.
clemenceauJul 3, 2006
Lol, notice how this article came out about the same time as Hawking's suggestion that "Mankind should travel to space to escape world-ending events.
soulvirusJul 4, 2006
hmm.. that sure was a big chuck of rock falling towards us.. more , like a planetecimal than a meteor..
ronaldbAug 3, 2006
@ductions:Armigeton = Armageddon...Check out babelfish.altavista.com/translate.pl?from=babytalk;to=english and you would have known...
bs0lDec 7, 2006
For those still interested:<a class="user" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002996851503214453&q=meteor+earth">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002996851503214453&q=meteor+earth</a><a class="user" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=38tNJS9lo9I">http://youtube.com/watch?v=38tNJS9lo9I</a>
rexer73Feb 21, 2007
New Link <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0PODexKM8&search=astroid%20hitting%20earth">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0PODexKM8&search=astroid%20hitting%20earth</a>