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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.