Newly discovered astroid

[Snuffy]

To buzz the earth tonight ... 04/08/2010 @ 1906 hours EST.

Its going to pass within the orbit of the moon so it'll be close.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...est=latestnews

[Lionheart]

Nice that we can track these things now.

Hopefully we have some tools for taking them down if they are going to impact.


Bill

[Snuffy]

I think by my understanding ... this is going to be a non-event as the "rock" will be too far from earth's atmosphere to do any flaming ... so we won't get any light show.

[Clarke123]

Nice that we can track these things now.

Hopefully we have some tools for taking them down if they are going to impact.


Bill

They use Bruce Willis and Aerosmith

[lifejogger]

They use Bruce Willis and Aerosmith

Just what I was going to say.

[paiken]

With today's technology, we can see 'em coming, but can't to a dang thing about it. Hollywood likes to make movies where they can send up a shuttle or shoot ICBM's to intercept the rocks, but the reality is that your only option at this time is to put your head between your knees and kiss your a** goodbye. Maybe in the next 50 years they will come up with a rocket with incredibly high delta vee that can be launched in time to either deflect or destroy the little rocks, but anything over a couple hundred feet in diameter is going to punch through the atmosphere and cause havoc.

[Dangerousdave26]

paiken you are correct there is no way we could stop it.

The Asteroid that kill off the dynosaurs is thought to have been 6 miles across. If one hit like that again it would be the end of all life as we know it on the planet.

The shock would kill many but the ejection of material into the atmosphere would create a ring of fire around the planet. With in two weeks just about everything would be dead.

Talk about hitting the reset button.

[6297J]

paiken you are correct there is no way we could stop it.

The Asteroid that kill off the dynosaurs is thought to have been 6 miles across. If one hit like that again it would be the end of all life as we know it on the planet.

The shock would kill many but the ejection of material into the atmosphere would create a ring of fire around the planet. With in two weeks just about everything would be dead.

Talk about hitting the reset button.

Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to start the whole thing again.
I wonder where evolution would go next time. If it's true what they say about ants and cockroaches being just about the only things able to survive thermonuclear war and total global wipeout then I wonder where they would take life in the next couple of hundred million years. (If the Sun has got another couple of hundred millions years left in it of course)

[Clarke123]

Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to start the whole thing again.
I wonder where evolution would go next time. If it's true what they say about ants and cockroaches being just about the only things able to survive thermonuclear war and total global wipeout then I wonder where they would take life in the next couple of hundred million years. (If the Sun has got another couple of hundred millions years left in it of course)

PLANET OF THE ANTS "You damn, dirty invertebrates"


It's a myth about cockroaches, they'd be the first insects to go.