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- blitzkriegpunk, on 01/02/2009, -2/+29IMPOSSIBLE!!! The Earth is only 5,000 years old.
- psion01, on 01/02/2009, -0/+25And the Earth's magnetic field does nothing to stop meteor strikes. It's a magnetic field, not a deflector shield.
- Andrewbot, on 01/02/2009, -1/+18No, pole flipping does not remove the atmosphere.
- dzhastin, on 01/02/2009, -0/+11None of the above. The universe didn't even exist 12,900 years ago, fool. This couldn't have even happened until after Adam taught his sons to hunt brontosaurus. We're talking 5,500 years, tops.
- sockpuppets, on 01/02/2009, -1/+12Please tell me you're not that dumb stonebear.
- Cancerous, on 01/02/2009, -1/+12Hmmm... but the question is how did God throw it at the earth. Did he use a trebuchet, or a catapult, or is he just a great pitcher?
- sockpuppets, on 01/02/2009, -0/+10It flips at regular intervals, the atmosphere didn't go away then.
- layzice, on 01/02/2009, -1/+11aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Still one of my favorite shows for some reason. - CookieDuster666, on 01/02/2009, -0/+9+1 for satire.
- Vosona, on 01/02/2009, -1/+10Well then one would assume that the magnetic field weakening would in fact LESSEN the risk of meteor strike.
- DeskFlyer, on 01/02/2009, -1/+9KAAMEEHAAMEEHAAAAAAAAAAA
- pe5t1lence, on 01/02/2009, -0/+6Makes me think of BOMBARDMENT!
http://www.truveo.com/Bombardment/id/3919422865 - 0insane1, on 01/02/2009, -2/+8wanna play... meteor, global warming, humanity.... it works just like rock paper scissors.
1-2-3- go - novenator, on 01/02/2009, -0/+5iirc, it flips every 200,000 years or so and we are overdue for one
- brownsound00, on 01/02/2009, -1/+6oh please, whenever there is science, people are always bashing it
- CATSCEO2, on 01/02/2009, -0/+46,000*
Get it right, idiot. - Turambar, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4geological strata or it didnt happen
- kolop1, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4English?
- VVCephei, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3What does humanity beat?... Each other?
- brownsound00, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3except that person had a /s after their post.
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3Don't you have faith in Bruce Willis and Aerosmith?
- MrSlumberjack, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3They are making an educated guess... ie. hypothesizing, science.
- waxenpi, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3i'd like to believe it's the latter.
- Bobby1978, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2Good hypothesis but requires further proof. Short of an actual impact crater, perhaps other forms of supporting evidence could be uncovered? Since the supposed event occurred so recently, ice-core samples from Greenland might reveal details as to whether anything hit around that time-frame.
- Swellin, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2Hahaha stonebear lay off the weed man you're going a little loopy.
- Phinwood, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2BOMBARDMENT!
- Swellin, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2I'll 1 up your kamehameha, with my.....
SPIRIT BOMB!! - idavidtang, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1DUCK OR DIE!!!
- sockpuppets, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1I accidentally the whole Israel.
- jrm71588, on 01/02/2009, -2/+3But it would weaken our magnetic field, leaving us open to solar crap that would strip away our atmosphere.
- Jkins019, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1...Sure a frightening title until you read the description
- Skishy101, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1I just shot smack into both my eyeballs!
- CATSCEO2, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1@VVCephei
Your first answer is talking about the ozone layer, it absorbs most wavelengths of light. The magnetic field bends charged particles towards the poles (hence, the Auroras), it doesn't deflect anything.
And, no, the planet probably wouldn't get to 200+ degrees if we lost our magnetic field and ozone layer, the atmosphere would probably be stripped off but thats it. - dzhastin, on 01/02/2009, -1/+2The earth's magnetic field is not strong enough to repel meteors regardless of where the poles are, and that's not how magnetism works anyway. The earth's magnetic field repels charged particles, not solid metal objects.
When Neil Armstrong et al tried to come back from the moon, were they flung back into space because the Apollo capsule was made of metal? Do our mostly metallic satellites shoot off into the abyss after they're placed in orbit? If you bring a paper clip close to a magnet, is it deflected back at you? - psion01, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1Stonebear, 86% of meteorites are chondritic (stony). Another 8% are achondritic (similar to igneous rocks). The remaining 6% are iron, stony-iron, or nickle-iron meteorites.
- sabach, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1This is probably what you're thinking of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis - jsffive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1I saw this on the history channel TWICE in the past year!
The New York Times... ALWAYS up to date with current events.
Buried, because I refuse to read anything from "all the propaganda that's fit to print". - socoolisme, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1I didn't know Israel was around 12,900 years ago.
- preppypoof, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1reading these sorts of things always freak me out. if a meteor were heading for a collision course with Earth, it's highly unlikely that we would know about it until it was far too late to try an "Armageddon"-style method of saving ourselves
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1stonebear AFIK the majority are ice.
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1I hope so. About time we here in the southern hemisphere got some recognition.
- docbob84, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1I thought it was OVER NINE THOUS... meh, it's just not funny.
- CATSCEO2, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1What does Asian culture have to do with meteor impacts? O_o
- VVCephei, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1We already know that around 2047 there should be an asteroid approaching us... there's huge fuss about it because it's considered destructive on a large scale... Not life extinguisher... but pretty bad.
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1Not of the same age but considerably large is Chesapeake Bay
http://meteor.pwnet.org/impact_event/impact_crater ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_/ai ...
Mebbe these were following mom? - Epitaph, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1humanity beats global warming.
THE POWER'S IN YOU! - CayoMan, on 01/02/2009, -0/+0Kolop, what I’m trying to said is that, maybe we are not going to be wipe out because of a meteor rain or something like that. We are going to be wipe out, because our behavior and the way we are treating the planet.
- VVCephei, on 01/02/2009, -0/+0nawhhhh nothing like that!!!
he's playing marbles.
"Oh my! I knocked that ***** right off orbit!!! kekekekee...." - VVCephei, on 01/02/2009, -0/+0Precisely, and I got the date wrong, 2036... not 2047.
- farfromsubtl, on 01/02/2009, -2/+1Pics or it didn't happen.
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