ASTEROID !

[chesters1]

what has mr spock and bog paper in common ?

they both want to clean klingons of the face of uranus

ah the old ones are best

[loonyl]

Sheep scarer wrote:

 

..yadda, yadda, ...

also "may" also "might" well known phrases used by researchers to get money ,i dont believe a word of it ,if it does hit then you could say i told you so ,if not the researchers will find another "may" to get funds.

 

My God woman!

Haven't you seen 'Deep Impact?

 

You're Baaaaad !

 

[ 25 July 2002, 12:15 AM: Message edited by: loonyl ]

[spasor]

Well at least we`ve all got a good excuse for not bothering with a pension scheme???

Paul.

[Jim Roper]

spasor:

Well at least we`ve all got a good excuse for not bothering with a pension scheme???

It's not 2019 we have to worry about, December 21st 2012 comes before that!!

 

DISCUSS

 

Jim Roper

 

http://www.searchlineuk.com/FishList.htm

[Chris Plumb]

Or it might be 23/12/12

 

http://www.artspaquinmayaworks.bc.ca/m_calend.htm

 

Chris

[Jim Roper]

Chris Plumb:

Or it might be 23/12/12

 

http://www.artspaquinmayaworks.bc.ca/m_calend.htm

 

Chris

I'm relieved to know that other people read about such things.

Professor Stephen Hawking: "God is to be found within the laws of nature"

 

Jim Roper

 

http://www.atlantisrising.com

http://www.searchlineuk.com/BandBWebsitesW.htm

[big al]

i understand the chances are 6 in a million of it hitting,so need to worry then .well those odds are greater than you winning the lottery and we all believe in that. cheers big al

[Darth_codhead]

big al:

i understand the chances are 6 in a million of it hitting,so need to worry then .well those odds are greater than you winning the lottery and we all believe in that. cheers big al

I DID WIN THE LOTTO

 

ok it wes only £10

 

some one wins every week

 

i will be 54 then

i will be upset if the cod stoks gett better by then

it thay do not get better

death sounds good to me if i can not catch any more cod

 

DD

[John S]

Just a few points to think about....

 

The comet that impacted Jupiter a few years ago, if it had hit Earth instead, would have resulted in a global climatic change that would still be affecting us for years (if not centuries) to come.

 

[Jim] Jupiter does indeed have a reputation of sweeping up comets and meteors, but it does depend on Jupiter being in the right position at the right time. In this case, the meteor doesn't even come close to Jupiter's orbit. NT7 orbits between Mars and Earth and only just comes into our orbit once every 2 years or so.

 

Most of the 'near misses' in recent years have beed discovered after the closest approach. That means, if one of them had hit the Earth instead of flying past, we would not know about the threat until it hit. In the 20th century there were 2 certified 'hits' capable of destroying large areas of land (Earth gets hit every day by meteors, but they are just too small to notice. Most of them just burn up in the atmosphere anyway), the famous one in Tungusga (sp?) in the early 1900's, and one in South America in the 1940's or 50's. There may have been another one but that impacted in the Pacific Ocean and is only counted as a possible. The smallest of these three however would have wiped out London with ease, the largest could have left the rest of the world wondering where England had suddenly gone and why is it so dark?

 

Leaving Hollywood well alone, there is a real danger of a meteor large enough to cause climatic devastation hitting the Earth at some point in the near future. NT7 is only 2km across, but if it hits a landmass, it will totally obliterate thousands of square miles around the impact site and will then lead to climatic changes that will affect all our lives. The term they use is "Nuclear Winter", but the Earth has seen several of those caused by meteors/comets

 

Unfortunately, most of the Earth's surface is water, and you had better hope it does not impact an ocean. If that happens, you will have hundreds (if not thousands) of cubic miles of water being evaporated almost instantly.

 

Goodbye Sun, warmth, plants, life....

 

If the meteor is large enough however, it will drive through the ocean without slowing until it hits the ocean bed. It will not stop there though, the bottom of the ocean is (obviously) the thinnest part of the tectonic plate. It will break through the Earth's crust like a 15 million ton lump of rock through butter, and at that point you had better start hoping that your God really does exist.

 

Sweet dreams....

 

[ 26 July 2002, 01:49 AM: Message edited by: John S ]

[Chris Plumb]

quote:

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Professor Stephen Hawking: "God is to be found within the laws of nature"

 

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And wasn't it one Albert Einstein who famously said..

 

"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe."

 

(Except when it comes to asteroids hitting the earth!!!)

 

Chris