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- Wodle, on 10/11/2008, -2/+30I've heard Oprah helps protect us, given her massive size and gravitational pull. Just imagine the near misses without Oprah!
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -2/+10"In a nutshel: Vapourized in teh atmosphre over Sudan, but showed a direct hit is possibe"
typos? wtf. gg, discovery. - jquipp, on 10/10/2008, -7/+15I've heard Jupiter helps protect us, given its massive size and gravitational pull. Just image the near misses without Jupiter!
- HyphySoul, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7Whoa...number 3 missed us by 6 hours?!
- dudefaceguyman, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7Eh, I'm a little bummed when I hear of asteroids missing or disintegrating in the atmosphere..
..Well..Now that I think about it.. Maybe actually experiencing chaos and destruction isn't as awesome as they make it seem in movies.. - aaabatteries, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6"In a nutshel: Vapourized in teh atmosphre over Sudan, but showed a direct hit is possibe"
Discovery Channel needs editors, apparently. - CeeJayDK, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5I hate it when people use the word chance to describe the probability of an outcome that is clearly not a positive one.
You might win the lottery - there is a chance.
There isn't a chance an asteroid will hit earth and kill millions - there is a risk. - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5I set the clock forward so we'd miss it.
- stormofswords, on 10/11/2008, -1/+6"NUTSHEL"
- RunawayElf, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4there have been over 9000 of them if I recall correctly.
- Jhiaxuz, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3There is an immediate blind spot between us and the Sun which prevents us from mapping that certain part of space which is one reason. Another reason is funding for this purpose only.
There is mathematics behind the timeframe they give on large impacts like the Barringer Crater in that they take random statistics and found out that Earth 'should' get hit every 300 thousand years by an object roughly 1 km, 30 million years for an object which is 10km and an object which caused the Dinosaurs to die would occur every 30 - 120 million.
However, this leads us right back to the start. There is no way to confirm this theory as we do not have the budget nor are we capable of peering into spots which have proven to hinder our efforts (yet) to gauge a proper estimate for impacts.. An object could hit us with very little warning and sooner or later our little game of chance will come to an abrupt end.
The last time people cared about such an event was from the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event in 1994. It boggles my mind in regards to what is required for people to notice that Space is a very dangerous and unknown place. - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Animate something like THIS in a planetarium! That'd be horrifying/awesome!
- Pauli92, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3I just remembered how much I hated Armaggedon!
- jinsundo, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2"Though this particular asteroid burned-up in the atmosphere, larger such objects could make landfall. The really scary thing is that we really have no way to detect what might be hurtling toward us right now".
Who says that "we really have no way to detect what might be hurtling toward us"? Why not research history and use some science to find out?
This article seems to focus only on large “near miss” asteroids. What about actual hits and the resultant fatalities from small asteroids and meteoroids throughout history? Why is this not mentioned?
A good book to read about this is by Prof. John S. Lewis called 'Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth'.
Also research New Light on the Black Death - swmbuk, on 03/30/2009, -0/+2Only use copy and paste if you can spell...
- Wisgary, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2All penis shaped.
- Jhiaxuz, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2I doubt a 1.5 kilometer Asteroid would created an extinction level event. It would do significant damage to a very wide area mind you.
Also, we are always getting hit by space junk. Each day, the Earth gains roughly 10 to 100 tons of space debris. - hinmanj, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2With them being so worried about the asteroids in 2880, I hope that means they don't foresee any hitting us anytime soon then?
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -1/+2Good lookin out
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -2/+3Who cares about what'll happen in 2880?
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -1/+2*nutshell
- pokergob, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Nice article thanks.
- CeeJayDK, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1I hate it when people don't know the difference between the words you're and your.
- daeus, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Planet - arium?
- Phazoni, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1So that means the earth traveled 700KM in 6 hours. Holy cow!
- daeus, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Actually my calendars pretty full around then...
- daeus, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Everytime she turns around its her birthday!
- ChileanGoD, on 10/11/2008, -2/+2...And they will.
- brb1031, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1You're really taking you're chances with this "hatred of people using words."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_a_chance - roebeet, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1And communists, terrorists, the ozone layer, eggs in Bubble Yum and every stranger I meet.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1The movie about the total destruction....of Aerosmith's good name.
- uncoolcentral, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1FTA - "Vapourized in teh atmosphre" FTW
Brings me back to days of yore
http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby. ... - Salival, on 10/11/2008, -2/+1Wow, can you say "fear mongering".
I cant wait for killer bee's and Asteroids to destroy us. - havocjaw, on 10/11/2008, -1/+0Hooray!! for 1950 DA
- TheHim, on 10/11/2008, -2/+1Anyone else getting an .aspx file to open? Server struggling maybe?
- diablozx9, on 10/11/2008, -1/+0and global warming
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