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- sidizzle, on 10/08/2008, -1/+33Well that was anticlimactic...
- Encablossa, on 10/09/2008, -0/+29Video or it didn't happen :/
- Totz83, on 10/09/2008, -0/+25The sizes of pieces of household furniture is not a proper unit of measurement
- scottklarr, on 10/09/2008, -5/+24This is a true testament to the power and lovingness of the one true creator and ruler of all mankind..... the flying spaghetti monster!
- urgeigh, on 10/09/2008, -0/+19Just go down about 900 couches til you hit the stop sign and make a right.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/09/2008, -1/+17That's what my girlfriend tells me all the time.
:( - Skywise, on 10/09/2008, -1/+14No kidding... all this patting on the back of how they had early detection and accurate prediction and NOBODY pointed their telescopes/cameras at the area to snap a few photos?!
- GeeksSpeakFont, on 10/08/2008, -4/+16and that's what we call a close call!
- BXRWXR, on 10/09/2008, -2/+13Too bad, that's not what she tells me.
- wediggit, on 10/09/2008, -0/+11I for one was worried as my Kitchen Table is 900x400 meters, Fee fi fo fum!
- jessikt, on 10/08/2008, -0/+10What kind of damage would that humdinger have done if it hadn't have burned up?
- aristone, on 10/09/2008, -1/+10RAmen!
- WilliamCrandall, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9"The space rock, which was about nine feet in diameter, was too small to do any damage, and burned up in the atmosphere.... The asteroid exploded at 0243 UT with an energy of somewhere between 1.1 and 2.1 kilotons of TNT.... if pieces did reach the ground, they’d be scattered [in] Sudan’s dangerous Darfur region."
- forcedfx, on 10/09/2008, -0/+8I never realized scientists estimated the size of space objects based on household furniture. It's a good thing too, because non-scientists, such as myself, would never be able to figure out just how large 9ft is.
- Cypher19, on 10/09/2008, -0/+7That's actually a very strange question to ask, considering an object that size would have no option other than burning up. If what you're wondering is "What kind of damage would an object that is just large enough to be a meteorite do?", this is probably not far off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event The Tunguska Event was an explosion that occurred in Russia back in 1908, and is commonly attributed to the explosion of a meteor not very high off of the Earth's surface.
- inactive, on 10/09/2008, -1/+7"No photographs of the explosion have been reported, owing to the remote location of the object's path over Sudan."
Ok, stop sending food and money to Africa and send them ***** cameras. - dougbot, on 07/14/2009, -0/+5it means PC load letter.
- RealmDown, on 10/09/2008, -0/+59' in diameter is actually a pretty serious kitchen table.
- neoq36, on 10/09/2008, -0/+5Damn aliens bugs of Klendathu
- sourceholder, on 10/09/2008, -2/+7Pictures, videos, interviews?
My eyes want more. - TheSkunkMonkey, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4So it was a meatball that hit the atmosphere, not an asteroid?
Thats-a Spicy Meat-a-ball! - evetsleep, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4That's what she said.
- aristone, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4Scientifically, it is known as a "humdinger".
Close to 382 cubic feet of rock...if it were iron it would weigh over 90 tons.
My kitchen table is pretty heavy, but it doesn't weigh even close to 90 lbs. - RajAtWork, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3dugg for the using of the word: humdinger.
- gn0stik, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3Not sure why you got buried for this. If there was no atmosphere it wouldn't have burned up. However, it might be more accurate to say that the force of the impact would have been equivalent to the energy released by a small nuclear explosion.
- ninjarabbits, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3Ta-daaaaa...
Now, I’m going to need a volunteer for my next illusion — The Aztec Tomb. - webcrumb, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3What do you mean? A "table" is now an SI unit, where 1Ta equals 6Ch.
If the asteroid was ~1 KTa then we might have been in trouble. - DrDragun, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3KE depends on velocity and mass, and given that it was only a couple of meters it would have had to be composed of some very dense material and moving very fast to cause any significant damage. Worst case scenario it would have damaged perhaps a couple of square kilometers of landscape and ejected a big cloud of particulate into the sky, but nothing truly threatening to the world as a whole.
Of course, if it was moving at hyperspeed all sorts of weird ***** could happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Er7ubr9fA - bffoley, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3Was there candy inside?
- legatus, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3I call shotgun
- CaptainScarlet, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3"Little did they know...that this little rock, no larger then a kitchen table, would devastate the planet with unknown alien bacteria...changing the future of Earth forever."
"Experts continue to say the explosion left nothing but perhaps a few small bits to fall to the surface, how could this have happened?"
"We must now go back in time and stop this kitchen table sized asteroid from entering the Earth's atmosphere."
"We have assembled a team of experts, top-notch scientists, engineers, and were sending them back!!"
"Save us all!!!!"
This film has not been rated. Coming 2012. - ASSASSYN360, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2The only good bug is a dead bug. Like to know more?
- musntSurfatWork, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2It was in fact a kitchen Table.
- webcrumb, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Build-a-Joke™
atmosphere, penetration, explode, pre-entry, asteroid. - gaoshan, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Republican Jesus must not like them.
- sassyjack, on 10/09/2008, -1/+3please let it be zombies please let it be zombies please let it be zombies
- FreeTalkLIve, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2It was those pesky aliens busting through to our diminsion.
When that mothership busts through on Oct 14 2008, you will ***** brix. - masterkenobi, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2.....was that a warning shot?
- RadicalEdward, on 10/09/2008, -1/+3Two things, wouldn't that be: Ate ta nine D 69? (eight ta nine dee sixty-nine) and WTF does that mean?
- eidetic, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Off killing his (Casper Van Dean) movie career with horrible sequels.
- urgeigh, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2lol, kilotables.
- inactive, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2I'm fascinated that this is dugg so high. This kind of thing happens all the time, you just don't know or hear about it. The only remarkable part of this story is that this is the first time one was accurately tracked beforehand.
- Paranor01, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2thought McCain said he was the big one lol
- velocity92c, on 10/09/2008, -1/+3Kind of scary that we probably wouldn't even know if a huge asteroid was going to hit us until a couple days before it hit. I blame the movie industry for the false sense of security I had growing up.
- inactive, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2It was not a close call; the Earth was never in any real danger from this object.
- drgreenberg, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2While not reaching the ground intact, the asteroid did indeed strike the earth. The atmosphere is a part of the earth and anything that burns up in it adds to the mass of the planet. Much ends on the surface eventually as dust or as the gases resulting from the burnup combine with materials on the surface. If the earth had a very fluffy dust surface, we'd still consider an object striking it to have impacted. Now just let this surface get more and more tenuous until its the density of the atmosphere and you have the current situation.
- gn0stik, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Tunguska was an airburst as well. And it was much larger than this, according to established theory on the event. It's a good thing it didn't happen during the cold war, that's for sure.
- LeviTheSmith, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2cause they are the N.W.O under the guidance of the Saucer people who are teamed up with the reverse vampires
- gurp13, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Who says it was accurate? I mean, honestly, there's no confirmation other than a report of a flash of light. That's confirmation to scientists? And besides, it's not like they predicted it years ago or something. They predicted it, what, days before it happened?
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