I think all of you who says "Ah who cares, let it hit" have serious problems. Perhaps your mother didn't breast feed you as a kid or something, but go get your issues worked out <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
The appropriate response would be: Aw ****....
If it does hit us, you probably won't be so smug, but I hope we won't find out either way.
Trying to get this somewhat back onto the topic of meteors....this was annocuned a while ago, and anyway its being classed as a "low probability high consequence" event. To be honest I'd be more concerned about something that size hitting the moon, without the moon the graavity on our planet would be skewed and scientists are in fact in the firm belief the moon is the only thing keeping us in our true orbit around the sun. Without the moon we are likely to float off into space..or into the sun.
<!--QuoteBegin--Burncycle+Sep 3 2003, 11:31 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Burncycle @ Sep 3 2003, 11:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I think all of you who says "Ah who cares, let it hit" have serious problems. Perhaps your mother didn't breast feed you as a kid or something, but go get your issues worked out :p
The appropriate response would be: Aw ****....
If it does hit us, you probably won't be so smug, but I hope we won't find out either way. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> How about this response:
Hit or miss by 10,000,000 miles, there is absolutely nothing i can do about it so why should i worry about it in the slightest?
I'm not going to sweat over something that may or may not happen 10 years from now that i have no control over.
<!--QuoteBegin--Necrotic+Sep 4 2003, 10:50 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Necrotic @ Sep 4 2003, 10:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Trying to get this somewhat back onto the topic of meteors....this was annocuned a while ago, and anyway its being classed as a "low probability high consequence" event. To be honest I'd be more concerned about something that size hitting the moon, without the moon the graavity on our planet would be skewed and scientists are in fact in the firm belief the moon is the only thing keeping us in our true orbit around the sun. Without the moon we are likely to float off into space..or into the sun. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Ummmm, No.
The Sun exerts far more force on the earth then the moon does. In any case, if the asteroid hit the moon, the effect on it's orbit would be negligible since the moon is far more massive then the asteroid is. Even if all the kinetic energy from the asteroid were transferred to the moon, the net result would be insignificant. It's like saying a dust mote falling on you could break your arm, it's not going to happen.
If you really want, I can do the pertinent calculations of mass/velocity and such and use conservation of momentum as my base to prove it to you mathematically but I dont feel the need to do that.
In any case, the attitude most humans have to asteroid impacts is the same as the dinosaurs, a simple glance around your local neighbourhood will show you how far that attitude got them.
Humanity is the first species known to have evolved on this planet which can deflect an asteroid. Contrary to popular belief, it's easier to deflect and asteroid then it is to destroy it. Destruction would entail a lot more firepower then we have and could potentially be a wasted effort, while a nudge at the right time would be far easier.
The current warning time for an asteroid is... 8 Seconds. Thats the time it takes to burn in the atmosphere and say "Hey guys, your screwed" before slamming in an ocean/landmass.
For anything like an organised effort to deflect an asteroid, we need a warning window of 20 years MINIMUM. Right now our maximum manned space capability is low earth orbit. We need something better if we're going to be stopping a giant hurtling mountain, and I for one wouldnt trust an unmanned probe to do the work of saving 6 Billion people.
And if we fail to deflect it? Well, you can expect a serious amount of death, the survivors would probably turn savage. The best equipped persons to survive impact would probably be military personnel, most likely taking shelter in old fallout shelters or that Cheyenne mountain I've heard of.
Unless it were a very large impact, a serious asteroid strike would set back civilisation quite a bit. A "normal" asteroid strike would be devastating, but we would be able to recover eventually. In the worst case scenario, a "Normal" strike would hit a city.
Perhaps a rock needs to thwack us in the face. We as a species need a wake up call.
oh <i>please</i>, this asteroid hype is so rediculous. The earth is being hit by Millions of asteroids each year, noone cares, the chance that a large asteroid with a particuliar consistency hits the earth and causes major havoc is so incredibly low, you can't possibly imagine. You better watch out when walking over the street, this is mroe dangerous by about a Billion times.
I seriously dont know how are we going to deflect the asteriod. It aint gonna work like Armmageddon. There is no air in space remember? Nuclear bombs (or any bombs for that matter), get their 'exploding' power from expanding gases from the surrounding air (go read up on it). Since there is no air in space, there would be no shock wave, just a small boom and lots of heat. So, we planning to melt a 1 km wide rock? How long would that take? If not, how else would we prevent destruction?
<!--QuoteBegin--No-Life+Sep 3 2003, 05:12 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (No-Life @ Sep 3 2003, 05:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> All I know is, HL2 better come out before any large object hits earth. It is best not to worry about these things. No-Life <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That just made me think of it. If you have Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 doesn't that mean you have a whole life? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> And what if you bought multiple copies and send them into space to survive the impact, do you still have a life after you are dead? And what if you lose your Half-Lifes along with you do you have negative lives or something? <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hey if we're lucky Bruce Willis might go in there and blow up in the asteroid
<!--QuoteBegin--pEnGuiN_gab+Sep 4 2003, 03:08 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (pEnGuiN_gab @ Sep 4 2003, 03:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I seriously dont know how are we going to deflect the asteriod. It aint gonna work like Armmageddon. There is no air in space remember? Nuclear bombs (or any bombs for that matter), get their 'exploding' power from expanding gases from the surrounding air (go read up on it). Since there is no air in space, there would be no shock wave, just a small boom and lots of heat. So, we planning to melt a 1 km wide rock? How long would that take? If not, how else would we prevent destruction? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Build a giant fan and blow it away.
Anyway i know this for about 5 years, never worried. There are lots of ways this can end, and in all of them, we die.
<!--QuoteBegin--pEnGuiN_gab+Sep 4 2003, 10:08 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (pEnGuiN_gab @ Sep 4 2003, 10:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I seriously dont know how are we going to deflect the asteriod. It aint gonna work like Armmageddon. There is no air in space remember? Nuclear bombs (or any bombs for that matter), get their 'exploding' power from expanding gases from the surrounding air (go read up on it). Since there is no air in space, there would be no shock wave, just a small boom and lots of heat. So, we planning to melt a 1 km wide rock? How long would that take? If not, how else would we prevent destruction? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> like... ...dude... ...listen to me for 1 sec...
that meteorite is gonna pwnz0r all of ya! hah! (im saying this cuz im gonna die in the chaos with a flatscreen under my arm)
[edit] oops... Thx Zerogreat for noticing, I ment the movie Deep imapct ( <a href='http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/' target='_blank'>http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/</a> ) not the game space impact... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> [/edit]
The meteorite thingy is a lol compared to other nice thing out there, like expanding sun after it runs out of H. And did you knew that the very center of out galaxy is a giant black hole? Nice to know, isnt it? And still, if we run away from all of this, the space is still expanding which will make it sometime to tear apart and cease toexist (which is somewhat beyond my imagination).
Space Impact...wasnt it some game? The name sounds familiar. And do someone know what was name of asteroids style game, all i remember from it is: There were green blob like enemies, enemies called "fast deaths" (in help was stated "they are fast and you are dead, any other questions?" or sumthin), one weapon was named "boomstick" and you can also launch circular saw thingys...
<!--QuoteBegin--Necrotic+Sep 4 2003, 05:50 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Necrotic @ Sep 4 2003, 05:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Trying to get this somewhat back onto the topic of meteors....this was annocuned a while ago, and anyway its being classed as a "low probability high consequence" event. To be honest I'd be more concerned about something that size hitting the moon, without the moon the graavity on our planet would be skewed and scientists are in fact in the firm belief the moon is the only thing keeping us in our true orbit around the sun. Without the moon we are likely to float off into space..or into the sun. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I don't believe its big enough to knock the moon away.
I was once watching tv a while back. On the creation of earth and the moon. Was kinda odd some planet was going around with us like the moon. Then one day it kinda collided with earth. But the planet that collided with us was friggen huge to what they showed. Well anyways it changed the survace quite a bit, lava came out yadda yadda. Then dust came off the earth formed the moon and such.
Now if something bigger than the earth could knock it off course then it would take a big big big rock to take out the moon.
And has anyone heard the offical size of the asteriod. Iv heard 2/3 of a mile which is pretty small.
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The appropriate response would be: Aw ****....
If it does hit us, you probably won't be so smug, but I hope we won't find out either way.
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The appropriate response would be: Aw ****....
If it does hit us, you probably won't be so smug, but I hope we won't find out either way. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
How about this response:
Hit or miss by 10,000,000 miles, there is absolutely nothing i can do about it so why should i worry about it in the slightest?
I'm not going to sweat over something that may or may not happen 10 years from now that i have no control over.
Kinda of a dissapointment isnt it?
Ummmm, No.
The Sun exerts far more force on the earth then the moon does. In any case, if the asteroid hit the moon, the effect on it's orbit would be negligible since the moon is far more massive then the asteroid is. Even if all the kinetic energy from the asteroid were transferred to the moon, the net result would be insignificant. It's like saying a dust mote falling on you could break your arm, it's not going to happen.
If you really want, I can do the pertinent calculations of mass/velocity and such and use conservation of momentum as my base to prove it to you mathematically but I dont feel the need to do that.
In any case, the attitude most humans have to asteroid impacts is the same as the dinosaurs, a simple glance around your local neighbourhood will show you how far that attitude got them.
Humanity is the first species known to have evolved on this planet which can deflect an asteroid. Contrary to popular belief, it's easier to deflect and asteroid then it is to destroy it. Destruction would entail a lot more firepower then we have and could potentially be a wasted effort, while a nudge at the right time would be far easier.
The current warning time for an asteroid is... 8 Seconds. Thats the time it takes to burn in the atmosphere and say "Hey guys, your screwed" before slamming in an ocean/landmass.
For anything like an organised effort to deflect an asteroid, we need a warning window of 20 years MINIMUM. Right now our maximum manned space capability is low earth orbit. We need something better if we're going to be stopping a giant hurtling mountain, and I for one wouldnt trust an unmanned probe to do the work of saving 6 Billion people.
And if we fail to deflect it? Well, you can expect a serious amount of death, the survivors would probably turn savage. The best equipped persons to survive impact would probably be military personnel, most likely taking shelter in old fallout shelters or that Cheyenne mountain I've heard of.
Unless it were a very large impact, a serious asteroid strike would set back civilisation quite a bit. A "normal" asteroid strike would be devastating, but we would be able to recover eventually. In the worst case scenario, a "Normal" strike would hit a city.
Perhaps a rock needs to thwack us in the face. We as a species need a wake up call.
It is best not to worry about these things.
No-Life <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That just made me think of it. If you have Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 doesn't that mean you have a whole life? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> And what if you bought multiple copies and send them into space to survive the impact, do you still have a life after you are dead? And what if you lose your Half-Lifes along with you do you have negative lives or something? <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hey if we're lucky Bruce Willis might go in there and blow up in the asteroid
anyway. Nasa have said it wont hit, so im not going to worry about it (not that i ever did)
Build a giant fan and blow it away.
Anyway i know this for about 5 years, never worried. There are lots of ways this can end, and in all of them, we die.
like... ...dude... ...listen to me for 1 sec...
...havent u ever seen <b>Deep</b> impact? DOH!
<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
that meteorite is gonna pwnz0r all of ya! hah! (im saying this cuz im gonna die in the chaos with a flatscreen under my arm)
[edit] oops... Thx Zerogreat for noticing, I ment the movie Deep imapct ( <a href='http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/' target='_blank'>http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/</a> ) not the game space impact... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> [/edit]
There were green blob like enemies, enemies called "fast deaths" (in help was stated "they are fast and you are dead, any other questions?" or sumthin), one weapon was named "boomstick" and you can also launch circular saw thingys...
I don't believe its big enough to knock the moon away.
Now if something bigger than the earth could knock it off course then it would take a big big big rock to take out the moon.
And has anyone heard the offical size of the asteriod. Iv heard 2/3 of a mile which is pretty small.