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  • #1

    We're DOOMED!!

    NASA has just put out it's highest ever asteroid impact alert.

    A '4' rating on the 10 point Torino scale, the previous highest alert was a 1. The asteroid is due in April 2029.

    Center for NEO Studies
    http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html
    NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site. Data related to Earth impact risk, close-approaches, and much more.


    and

    http://tinyurl.com/4awkv
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  • #2
    Great! We no longer have to bother about fixing our retirements-system.
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    • #3
      Ah it's not so bad, depending on what the asteroid is, and by the looks of things it's loose rock, it would only destroy a localised area with little global impact (obviously depending on where it hits). Note of course the odds of impact are just 2.7%
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      • #4
        Darn it.
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        • #5
          Thats less than 40-1, not such long odds.

          It wouldn't pass a risk assessment (likelyhood multiplied by consequence)

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          • #6
            Very true. Still, as long as it doesn't land on my head, I can't pretend that I really care .

            I want it close though, I love a good fireworks display
            "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
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            • #7
              *checks his watch*

              It's early. Last time I subcontract the Apocalypse.
              Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
              -Richard Dawkins

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              • #8
                Not likely. And they change these numbers anyways as time goes on. It could shift you know... even if it does hit, it isn't like others haven't hit the planet before. Hopefully it will hit Siberia or something.
                For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                • #9
                  Or Hull. Might improve the place.
                  Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                  -Richard Dawkins

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Starchild
                    Or Hull. Might improve the place.
                    if were making wish list, I'll go for Old Trafford (on a match day versus Everton)

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                    • #11
                      South Central L.A.
                      For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Starchild
                        Or Hull. Might improve the place.
                        I doubt even a asteroid strike would raise property values in Hull.

                        Although of course you'll get the estate agents droning on about the crater's potential for use as a swimming pool - or maybe as a water (or even magma) feature.
                        19th Century Liberal, 21st Century European

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                        • #13
                          2029? I'm good.. I'll be... 49 years old. I might as well go fit and sexy and with all of my hair and I assume I have already done most important things so.... bring it!
                          In da butt.
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                          • #14
                            Don't worry Bruce Willis will take care of that asteroid.
                            Blah

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                            • #15
                              Not if I stab him to death with a cucumber first.
                              Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                              It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
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