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dark donkey
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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 12:18
A friend just told me to look at this is quite shocking i think. I mean the force of 20 million atom bombs.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/02/asteroid.reut/index.html
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Quote: "On impact, it could have the effect of 20 million Hiroshima atomic bombs, a spokesman for the British government's Near Earth Object Information Centre told BBC radio."


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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 12:36
That doesn't matter. The world is going to end in 2012 so the asteroid will have nowt to hit...

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 12:51
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What's gonna happen in 2012?

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 13:00
atomic warfare probably.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 13:23
Yeah, and Yellowstone is due to explode.. 65,000 years ago

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 13:28
Meh, you guys are way too pessimistic

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 13:45
Scientists...they're terrible at getting their predictions right...Well if that's the case then oh no we're doomed agh! lets loot a pillage!

No "it's the end" predictions have come true yet...The best way to predict the end of the world (or England) then the world leaders could agree on a date to set off all of their Nukes...then kablaam, the end of all life on earth as we know it.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 13:46 Edited at: 30th Sep 2007 13:47
@Zotoaster
Actually, it erupted 65,000 years ago. It does erupts on 65,000 year intervals... Plus it is only "dormant", if I recall correctly, not extinct.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 13:58
That article was made in 2003. And this prediction was never mentioned again. And its not going to hit England as scientists cannot predict the earths rotation and as the earths on a tilt, it might just hit water. Causing massive floods.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:01
Quote: "Scientists have predicted that dinasours went extinct... Except after the fact."


Well they predict that, but I think the 'non-extinct' ones just evolved, I mean they were mammal like lizards, and the velocer raptor seems to be related to birds. Sharks and Crocodiles came from dinosaurs, as did squid (like the 'vampire from the abyss' as a slowly evolved squid is nicknamed that lives below the oxygen layer) and other marine life - certainly some fish that have barely evolved that live in the depths of the ocean.

Sorry, I love watching nature documentaries.

But yes, scientists certainly have succeeding in saying that we do not have dinosaurs like the T Rex terrorizing the streets, the only dinosaurs that do terrorise the earth can be found scrounging around restaurants and diners for the Early Bird specials with their walking sticks and false teeth.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:04
Quote: "What's gonna happen in 2012?"


The Olympic Games, given where it's being held I can see most of the officials being mugged at gunpoint leading to world war 3... and as such all that will be left in london are cockroaches, chris evans and the guy who came up with the reality tv show big brother.

Quote: "That article was made in 2003. And this prediction was never mentioned again. And its not going to hit England as scientists cannot predict the earths rotation and as the earths on a tilt, it might just hit water. Causing massive floods."


It did get a more recent mention in 2006, although really they were saying that it was a "possible out-come" due to the speed and trajectory of the object. When it got close enough they discovered that it would miss the earth by a couple thousand miles; which sounds alright, but it can still screw up with weather patterns during it's passing. They'll probably have more predicitions close and close to when it eventually gets close enough to accurately predict.

Still those other two there were suppse to hit america last year kinda missed... by quite a bit heh

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:06
Quote: "scientists cannot predict the earths rotation and as the earths on a tilt"


Yeah, how ever would we simulate that

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:10
No. The most advanced human AI I know of says the the triggering of an artificial megastructure outside the universe will cause seven circular megastructures to fire superweapons, effectively destroying all life in the universe somewhere after 2511, we've got time, you see?


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Quote: "[quote]scientists cannot predict the earths rotation and as the earths on a tilt"


Yeah, how ever would we simulate that[/quote]

true, while not an exact science; the earth isn't completely unstable on it's axis. the tilt generally speaking is still predictable enough to simulate.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:11
And what I don't understand is they predicted it in 2003 and Asteroids takes hundreds to thousands of years to hit.

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Yeah probly wont happen. I mean look at global warming. Its been mroved to ntop exist but we still make all the fuss about it. The worst thing that could happen is england get destroyed and after living there then moving i dont realy think its a ncie place anyway. There are more people who arnt english in london anyway. And evrey time i go to london i seem to get scammed some how.
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Quote: "And evrey time i go to london i seem to get scammed some how. "


Sew your pockets up then.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:22
So where does it say it's going to hit London?

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:25
I guess it doesn't, the title may have mislead a little bit.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:32
It was reported from London, so clearly that's where it's going to hit. Duh. It's like if I know someone is going to crash a bus into a house and kill lots of innocent people, so long as it's not my house, I'll just keep quiet. That's how reporting works.


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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:34 Edited at: 30th Sep 2007 14:34
Quote: "it could have the effect of 20 million Hiroshima atomic bombs"


Quote: "it might just hit water. Causing massive floods"


Yes...massive floods.

I think it'll cause more than some flooding. 20 MILLION nuclear bombs.



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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:38
Quote: "Yeah probly wont happen. I mean look at global warming. Its been mroved to ntop exist but we still make all the fuss about it. The worst thing that could happen is england get destroyed and after living there then moving i dont realy think its a ncie place anyway. There are more people who arnt english in london anyway. And evrey time i go to london i seem to get scammed some how. "


Would you be one of them? either that, or I can see the public school system is still working a treat

Can't say I've ever been scammed in london, nor really noticed that it's got that large a population of non-english people. Yeah there is a bit more of a metropolitan of races; but most of them are english born-n-bred. Hell most come from families that haven't been out of london in several generations.

Kinda sad really, but oh well.

Quote: "So where does it say it's going to hit London?"


They never did say where they thought ground zero would be, that said if one did hit.. knowing my luck it'll stray at the last second and land about 55miles north-west of westminster.

More to my luck, I'd be at work when it happens and come back to find my apt a nice big crater. Never lucky enough to die in something tragic, but unlucky enough for it to screw me over.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 14:48 Edited at: 30th Sep 2007 14:48
I've seen a documentation on what would happen.

They say that shock waves would go all the way around the Earth, and then reflect back and cause a "mountain" to rise at some part of Earth due to the shock wave affecting the Earth's plates/crust.

The crater would be huge too, btw. It'd probably be the size of a city.

Also, the amount of dust that would fly out of the Earth and into the atmosphere would put Earth into a dark state. The plants would start to die out, and the only likely source of food would be fungus which would prosper. The people of Earth would have to rebuild society (Not repopulate...), and we'd have to make it with very little food/water.

In addition, because of collision with Earth, and the shifting of the plates and crust alteration and stuff, there would be more volcanic activity.


Now then, this is the ultimate doomsday!

*ahem*

Asteroid hits Earth!

Volcanic activity increase leads to Yellowstone's eruption!

The increase in ash in the air somehow causes global warming to speed up, and the "main event" of it to initiate. This would cause a "Day after Tomorrow" type of effect.

There would be no women within 100 miles!


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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 15:20
Sorry to say, won't happen and even if it does I'll be outside the UK by the time it happens.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 15:23
It's Gaia's way of saying 'Chavs must perish' hence the London strike, but unfortunately there's a lot of collateral damage...but hey the old goddess is getting quite old and no doubt very confused in her old age.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 15:25
Yellowstone is a Super Volcano that blows itself to smithereens every 600,000 years or so (ie blot out the sun for months type of smithereens). Its about 40,000 years over due iirc. The land above the magma pocket (15km x 25km) has been progressively deforming over the years according to the usgs. Very interesting stuff, and a bit disturbing. Statistically speaking that sucker could blow at any time, but don't worry, we'll all most likely be nuked out of existence by our loving leaders way before then.

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I thought they didn't have chavs in London?

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 15:45 Edited at: 30th Sep 2007 15:45
you know what is funny?

we were supposed to run out of fossil fuels sometime in the 90s (according to "scientists")...

i don't have a source for this, i just remember my dad telling me that's what he was told... way back then when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 15:47 Edited at: 30th Sep 2007 15:48
@Aaron Miller- But maybe by then, someone will invent a machine that filters saltwater, and turns it into freshwater


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I heard that someone was trying to find a way to filter saltwater and shot some sort of cancer treatment radio wave into it. It supposedly caught on fire, could there be a way to harness this power. New energy source anyone? Saltwater vehicles would be cheap to run

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07252/815920-85.stm

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Quote: "Quote: "scientists cannot predict the earths rotation and as the earths on a tilt"

Yeah, how ever would we simulate that""


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Agent Dink,
You just made a quote form the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. lol
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Heh, it was the first relevant Google result

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 16:17 Edited at: 30th Sep 2007 21:35
Quote: "I thought they didn't have chavs in London?"


are you joking?

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Dinosaurs never existed people .

And if the news was reported in 2003, why in the hell did it not happen then?

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No. I thought chavs (charvers) come from up north, not down south in London.

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Hope it does, im emo.

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Quote: "I thought they didn't have chavs in London?"


Chavs are everywhere mate, hence the UK is doomed.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami_qanda.shtml

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Well I think the Aztecs calendar stopped abruptly in 2012, so we're all going to die then anyways . I heard one of the things they could do (don't know if they would have the technology by 2014, if the meteor hitting is even reasonable), is to launch some short of ship and land it on the meteor, using it to slightly throw it's path off.

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Well, this asteroid probably isn't THAT large. We could launch a few giant nuclear missiles at it.

Though, they say there'd be tons of debris entering the atmosphere causing dangerous meteor showers... Probably still better than a giant asteroid blowing a massive hole in the earth.

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Quote: "Well, this asteroid probably isn't THAT large. We could launch a few giant nuclear missiles at it.

Though, they say there'd be tons of debris entering the atmosphere causing dangerous meteor showers... Probably still better than a giant asteroid blowing a massive hole in the earth."

Lol, yeah, if we did that, all it'd do is give it more of a shotgun effect then a cannon effect, killing more people .


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All the more reason to do it! If England is going down, so does everybody else I am afraid, even you yanks, sorry.

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Quote: "Lol, yeah, if we did that, all it'd do is give it more of a shotgun effect then a cannon effect, killing more people .
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Well actually I would prefer the shotgun effect because going through the atmosphere it would probably break it up into smaller pieces so that it would cause less damage, and besides the Hugh shock wave the big meteor would create would more likely than not would cause a lot more issues.

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I propose getting bruce willis on the next rocket up there, he'll save us.

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Quote: "Well actually I would prefer the shotgun effect because going through the atmosphere it would probably break it up into smaller pieces so that it would cause less damage, and besides the Hugh shock wave the big meteor would create would more likely than not would cause a lot more issues."


My thoughts exactly... Though, if we get a bunch of different missiles on it from different angles at the exact same time, then plant a mine field around our planet in space we'd be relatively safe from most major debris as stuff would be nearly obliterated by the time it got to the atmosphere... Hehe, fun to watch all this go on from earth, giant explosions all night.

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I second that notion...then on the way back, detour to the sun right?

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Quote: "I propose getting bruce willis on the next rocket up there, he'll save us."

LOL! I was about to post that! And get aerosmith to sing to him the song "Don't want to miss a thing."

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lol typical, lets aim enough nukes at it and hope for the best.
Other than the fact that its probably made up just to sell, the likihood is minimal that it will hit.

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