Asteroid Could Hit Earth

[Brino]

Oh-oh. Asteroid MN4, which had a 1/300 chance of striking Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on April 13, 2029 with the force of a million Hiroshimas. Well, NASA has upgraded the probability of impact to 1 in 45! We better get Bruce Willis frozen, so he'll still be healthy by then.

http://www.lonestartimes.com/index.php?id=0,1227,0,0,1,0
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk//2004mn4.html

 

[Sci Fi Guy]

Hmmm... 2029. The guy on the website says he wouldn't feel anything in Houston. I'm near Texas... yay.

 

[MASAMUNE]

no u read it wrong. they dont know where it would hit, it could land anywhere

when it impacts it will devastate everything in a 3.5 miles radius, additionally a 25 mile radius will experience shockwave damage, potentially collapsing many of the buildings in this radius

im not scared, the chances it hits earth is small, and even so, most of the earth is ocean anyway, so we are looking at a very slim chance it will hit one of our continents

 

[tunsty]

Asteroid...2029 ???
We've got nuclear war and aliens to deal with first..
http://216.132.172.70/indiadaily/editorial/12-26-04.asp

 

[member5726]

Asteroid...2029 ???
We've got nuclear war and aliens to deal with first..
http://216.132.172.70/indiadaily/editorial/12-26-04.asp

Exactly... at least Bush will not be there to "take care of it" !!

 

[QBall1970]

when it impacts it will devastate everything in a 3.5 miles radius, additionally a 25 mile radius will experience shockwave damage, potentially collapsing many of the buildings in this radius

and even so, most of the earth is ocean anyway, so we are looking at a very slim chance it will hit one of our continents

Even still, if an object with a radius of 1.0 miles or greater impacts into the ocean, the resulting tidal shockwaves created by the impact will cause tsunamis... and massive coastal flooding and damage. You've seen pictures of the destrction caused by tsunamis off teh coast of Japan and the Greater Pacific Rim, I'm sure.

Undoubtedly there will be resulting earthquakes and tremors as well, cause tectonic plate shifts, which will only add to the generating force causing the eave action.

The further a wave must travel, the more destructive its force once it reaches land.

Elementary physics. Drop a pebble into a puddle. Wave action at its most basic and fundamental level. Science at its best.

Here's an educational/history link that enhances and supports my supposition and hypothesis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020819/tsunami.html

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s708821.htm

 

[ÆGEAN]

pffffffffft load of rubbish

 

[member006]

Clean living (ha ha ) and second hand smoke tells me I probably won't have to be here to worry about it .

 

[Durty_Dog]

Oh well if it hits we wont know much about it anyway

 

[Ol-Skool-Perv]

I give us until about 2012 going the way we're going.

When it hits in 2029 there won't be much left :tongue:

Does anyone really believe this planet will be able to sustain our ways forever? Somethings going to give folks, sooner rather than later. Mass consumption isn't a good thing but hell, who gives a shit, life is good.

 

[steef]

I've once heard that according to the Maya people the earth will be gone in 2013.
Apparently they predicted that during their time way back in the days.

 

[juballs]

I've once heard that according to the Maya people the earth will be gone in 2013.
Apparently they predicted that during their time way back in the days.

DECEMBER 21, 2012, the mayan calender ends predicting by many the end of the world. Could be, but many psychics such as nostradamus feel this date means nothing. Nostradamus sayed the end would be in 2926AD, so i will be dead by then, as for a meteor, lets head to them there hills! :tongue:

 

[steef]

DECEMBER 21, 2012, the mayan calender ends predicting by many the end of the world. Could be, but many psychics such as nostradamus feel this date means nothing. Nostradamus sayed the end would be in 2926AD, so i will be dead by then, as for a meteor, lets head to them there hills! :tongue:

Ok,I thought it was 2013..2012 then.

 

[Durty_Dog]

I once heard that Nostradamus said the world would end in the year 2000, nobody can predict how we'll all die it's just a certainty that every living thing will eventually die weather it's now or 1000 million years away.

 

[tipsy]

Oh shit, I live about an hour away from Fond du Lac. :eek:

 

[Summer]

Let it come we need to see armegeddon again, wanna see bruce blow it to smitherens....asif they could have stopped it!!!!

 

[parker]

We better get Bruce Willis frozen, so he'll still be healthy by then.

I say we forget about Willis. Lets bring back The Duke.

 

[Harry Lime]

Its Bush's Fault!!

 

[QBall1970]

I say we forget about Willis. Lets bring back The Duke.

LMAO

HELL,YEAH... bring ol' Duke and Steve McQueen back and that asteroid wouldn't stand a chance in hell of making it past the moon.

 

[Bananaman]

I'll half agree with Ol-Skool-Perv on this one. Although I'm sure we'll be around if it does happen, I'm pretty sure that I won't be too pleased with the state of affairs that we'll be in by then. We need quite a few more population controlling natural disasters 'round here. As an infamous jackass once said, "Bring it on!"