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[Lyon2]

Asteroid Has Fairly Good Chances Striking Earth in 2036
Source: http://news.scotsman...fm?id=264972007




I do not know about you, but i am somewhat scared with this news, i mean, they say they have a plan, and they have the money for it, but just imagine, imagine an asteroid strickes hearth, our planet, at least, billions of people will die, or with the blast or with the cold/warm weather caused by the asteroid blast.

It is obvious that it is inevitable that, some day, in the future, an asteroid, a meteor, will strike earth, but hey, 2036 i plan to be living quite well, and i am sure you too, so what do you feel about this, i advice you to pay atention, this news comes from a credible site and source, as you can see.

Remember the armaggedon movie? Feels like i am going to see it again, live!


What do you feel about this?
Do you beleave it it can really strike earth in 2036, or even later/sooner? (I beleave so)

Edited by Lyon2, 19 February 2007 - 07:31 PM.

[Kubi]

Very interesting. So we're going to spend 150Euros to by some gravity tractor to POSSIBLY move the meteor off it's course....Do we even have that technology yet? I suppose it's plausable. It must be rather far away, considering it's speed...28,000MPH..Someone should give it a speeding ticket...

Lets see...80,000 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb...so what, that's a couple...continents? If this thing hits...we're pretty much dead. (Not all of us ofcourse).

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Astronomers warned then that between now and 2079, there would be at least 38 potentially hazardous encounters with rogue asteroids.

Uhm, we better buy a lot more Gravity tractor. I don't see anything that says where it's headed? Am I missing this?

[Marina]

those things scares me too.I don't want to die like this but I guess that if its happens I will have too lol.I just hope that when it will happens if it does I will be with my loves one particulary my daughter.

[TypoMage]

Are you serious! They better have a plan because if they do not. We are screwed. So I hope that there plan works out good.

[PEUGEOT]

I can't believe what i hear but it seems to be true!
That catastrofic, if the asteroid hit the Earth!
I hope Nasa have a good plan for this!

[gaea]

Scotsman.com, on Feb 20 2007, 12:03 AM, said:

Scientists have estimated the asteroid has a one-in-45,000 chance of striking Earth on 13 April, 2036.

So I wouldn't recommend getting all crazy...atleast not yet

[electriic ink]

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Astronomers warned then that between now and 2079, there would be at least 38 potentially hazardous encounters with rogue asteroids.

So that's one every two years - we must have already some sort of action plan when this has happened before and I'm sure that because they are spending 150 Million Pounds on it, it won't fail.

We have 30 years to deal with this; I bet nothing will go wrong.

[shadowx]

Im not very worried but then i don't get very worried about things like this so maybe its just me, but as quoted above its not very likely to hit us anyway.

And i understand from the article that a "gravity tractor" is simply a big spaceship that exerts gravitational force due to its size, as all objects do, which is enough to move the asteroid perhaps a millimeter of curse every few thousand miles that accumulate to be enough to steer it off course and avoid us.

[Lyon2]

One thing i must agree, with should not o crazy and act like crazy because of that, but i am sure lots of people will use this excuse to do crazy and unresponsable/childish acts.

I feel like this news will bring much pain, suffering, and lots of more bad things to our world, to a world still full of bad things to fix, but i hope we all get together to work in a solution for this very big problem, and especially for the ones that we already have and likely we will have in a very nearest future.

That is up to us to workout solutions for our problems, and maybe this threat will brings us together, and we all know that people, human beeings, almost only act when the "bad" happened already.

[kraizii88z]

Read that again, it's a 1 in 45,000 chance that it will hit earth. I wouldn't worry about it. It basically says that there is no chance of it hitting Earth. Looks like the Scotsman is just trying to make sensationalist headlines.

[Lyon2]

kraizii8z, are you forgeting about the other 38 possibilities?

kraizii8z, 1 in 45.000 is not much, and they could be wrong in their calculations, i mean, mathmatics in a exact science to a certain point, they do not know of other potencial factors that could change the asteroid tragectory, and much more variables that we must consider in order to calculate if it is 1 in 45.000 or 1 in just 5.000 or even less.

Another thing kraizii8z, 1 in 45.000 is a risk we should not take don't you think? If you had 1 chance in 45.000 of wining the lottery, would you play? Now, if there is 1 chance in 45.000 or less, of an asteroid striking earth, isn't it a big risk if we do not take the proper acts to prevent it from happening, if the same occurs (i hope not, like all of you, of course)?

If everyone thought like you, this planet would/will be dead don't you think?

[husker]

Not necessarily. I think you are being a bit of a pessimist here. In 30 years, a lot can happen technology wise. I'm sure we will create some kind of technology to stop it if it does hit. The odds are unlikely, but I'm sure a meteor will hit sometime, whether it be 2036 or 20036, but there is no need to worry.

[t3jem]

This worries me a little of course, but I think that even without tractor beams we have enough nuclear explosives to blow any size asteroid off course, if not to pieces. So I'm not too worries, I'm sure they will have no problem stopping this.

[darran]

I am sure they have a plan to detour the asteroid away. Don't worry about when the world will end, just live life to the fullest, that is what I would say. Enjoy every moment of it, and appreciate it. Technology would be much more advanced in 10 years time, much less 30 years. Have faith in NASA, we should be blessed to be able to actually see when an object is actually reaching a possible impact with Earth, this way we will have time to prevent the disaster and I am confident nothing will happen

[Laos]

I saw this documentary, the 2036 asteroid will NOT hit the Earth actually, it is VERY close, but it wont hit us, unless something goes wrong with our orbit or the asteroid gets lucky, it wont hit us.

[cangor]

I've been interested in NEOs [near earth objects] for a long time, and, I guess 1 in 45000 is a pretty good chance, but, seriously, we've figured out ways to prevent an asteroid from hitting us, so I'm sure it won't hit us. I've actually known about this asteroid for years and, well, there are a lot like it, and, as it gets closer to us, we'll probably figure out it won't hit us.

[Watermonkey]

I think there are way bigger things to worry about than some rogue asteroid heading our way. It's not even really that big. I'd say the planet will already be depopulated by at least 2/3 of what it is today by then anyway, so it won't kill so many people if it hits anyway. Always look on the bright side...

Edited by Watermonkey, 21 February 2007 - 09:13 PM.

[Lyon2]

Obviously there are bigger things for us all to worry about, but this is just another one, and perhaps the most important in the future.

I do not think our technology is that well developed, and in 30 years, not much could happen if we just do not worry, waiting for other people to worry and figure it out a way to prevent the inevitable impact of an asteroid in the future.

I just can not accept that behavior, if people did not worry with things, we would still be in the "ice age", sort of speaking.

[matak]

This would be really awsome. After that meteor that wasted dinasours, here comes the one that will waste people. Imagine what kind of a race is going to dominate world after people are gone! I hope they're gonna be some lightbased creatures that will have power to dissapear anywhere...

If it ever happens, i'm going to film that with my latest camera with 300 megapixel resolution so that those guys in vaults have something nice to look at.
I can't wait 2036!!! Doom day is closing, and probably it's gonna end like all other predictions, but who cares this news rocks!!

[kraizii88z]

Even if this meteor would suppoosedly hit the earth, which there is a very big chance that it will not, they would project what possibility it had of hitting what area of the earth, and then all those people that occupy that area would vamoose, and get the hell out. If it does more damage than the desecration of a deserted city, then lets just consider it an 'Act Of God', and get on with it.

If it can't be avioded or destroyed, well, we are tearing up the earth anyway, and being complete dicks to one another, you know, with the wars and all, so maybe it's what god wants. We had a good run, goodbye cruel world!

[cangor]

Funny.

Something this size would create fairly decent damage, but seriously, like I said above, it's no big deal. They've already probably figured out it won't hit us. Space is incredibly huge, and the chances of a tiny asteroid colliding with a tiny earth are astrinomical. Perhaps that's why 1 in 40-whatever thousand is so "high," but, there's no way this thing'll hit it. We could just paint it white and the deflection caused by the solar rays hitting it would blow it off course.

[Lyon2]

Cangor, this Asteroid would not only create a fairly decent damage on our planet, it would completely destroy it, not a soul would survive, not one, the impact of this asteroid on earth would create ocean waves of thousands of miles, and then people would die of extreme weather changes, for instance, people would die drowned or from a very warm or cool weather, besides, they would not survive without homes, without food, without all the other stuff, that the asteroid would destroy with the very possible impact in a very near future.

If this asteroid hits us, say your prays now, you will need a miracle in order to survive, and perhaps that is what it will happen.

[SNiped]

It's going to happen one day. Pointless worrying too much about it, If it hit's it hit's if it does'nt it does'nt. If we all sat around worrying about thing's like this we would all be locked in insane asylum's.

And anyway when was the last meteorite strike, a few million years ago, i believe we are on borrowed time for the next one. So live life to the full until it does come

[Plenoptic]

The way I see it, we don't have too much to worry about. We have grown so much technologically in the last 50 years, that in the 29 years until 2036, there will be another breakthrough in science to destroy the asteroid before it can come near Earth. They already have the technology to take out missles in air so why not asteroids that threaten the Earth. I think we should be pretty safe and the only climate change we have to worry about should be global warming, not another Ice Age or anything like that.

[CinnamorollTK]

It would be scary if it were one in 100 chance that the asteroid was going to hit Earth. It might pass by and make a nice show for the astronomers, though. I hope it doesn't hit us. (Maybe it'll hit a planet nearby?)