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Diruo · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:55 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2147879.stm

I suppose we'll have to send Bruce Willis up to drill a hole and blow it up.. right?

We should look on the bright side though.. if it turns out that their calculations was correct.. we can all spend our retirement savings! YAY!

Awetopsy · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:57 pm

nm

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Diruo · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 2:16 pm

what??

<doom sayer>
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!
</doom sayer>

J Bradford · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 2:23 pm

Well I hope by 2019 I will have accomplished something.

mh · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 2:29 pm

According to NASA its only a 1 on the Torino scale.

"the chance of collision is extremely unlikely"

Torino scale

Rat · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:12 pm

quote

Quote:

A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019 - although the uncertainties are large.

That'll be a nice 31st birthday present for me...two days early, though.

Diruo · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:17 pm

mh: They have estimated it to be a 1 only because of the background and how rare it is for an object of this size to hit us. As I understand it, it has very little to do with this object in particular.

As I understood it there's about a 1000000km margin of error as of where it will be on the 1st of february 2019.. and we're within that margin. So the most likely scenario right now is that it will be a near miss.

Coaster · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:28 pm

*prepares poisoned kool-aid and promises salvation*

mjmcchesney · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:43 pm

I like spaceballs.

mh · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:56 pm

Diruo: well, it has already passed us in.. hum 1980 I think, and it was actually estimated to be even nearer that time and well.. we are still living arent we?

(i might be wrong, my memory of "close" encounters with asteroids are not as good as it once was.. hehe)

Impaler · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 6:52 pm

A large collision in 2019 ought to put our centennial windshield denting right on schedule, coinciding within 5 years of Tunguska.

Except the world should be about 4 times as populous by then. Interesting.

WHO'S LAUGHING AT BUNKER BUSTER NUCLEAR WEAPONS NOW?!!!?

We had an average size asteroid come within 400,000 miles of earth a few months back. Surprised the hell out of a lot of people, and we all forgot about it the very next week. People are blissfully ignorant about these sort of things; a Congressional poll showed astronomy/NASA having about .1% importance in the public opinion, yet asteroids, comets, deadly gamma rays and all sorts of space junk pose a very certain, impending destruction every second we live. It's having the sword of Damocles suspended our head, and we're worried about breaking a nail.

My posts are getting more and more disarrayed.

Nilwort · member Member # Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Posts: 319

hmmmmmmmmmm........

zak · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 12:31 pm

i think its all made up, i have strong evidence!!!!
the newspapers didnt have anything to write about (except of course the wars. theres always something on somewhere.) that means they have to resort to big brother, but there was nothing there except for that jade character sticking her fist in her mouth???!!!! (i still dont understand how people watch big brother, and i dont understand how shit like that makes first page in the newspapers) well, left with nothing to write about, they just predict the ned of the world in 20 years, and hope that by then everyone will have forgotten about it.....

ps, im not saying it doesnt exist, im just saying that that crap happns every day, and noone gives a toss until nobody has interesting to say. a bit like smalltalk really.

my 2pence (i dont have cents)

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Jabo · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 10:13 am

quote:
Originally posted by Rat:
That'll be a nice 31st birthday present for me...two days early, though.

LoL, that's nice, Feb 1st 2019 will be my 34th birthday, according to what the www.thespark.com life test says, I would die 14 years before my natural death

Okay, I'm gonna set up a list of things to do before dying :P

Coaster · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 9:48 pm

Now what would truly be cool, is if it just skinned our atmosphere and hit the moon.

Or if it hit the moon into us..

I hate the tide!

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Rat · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 9:52 pm

I don't care if something hits the earth and destroys it in my lifetime, as long as I figure out how to properly draw hands before it happens.

What a boring life goal.

Jabo · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 4:32 am

You have 17 years to learn it, go on drawing, quit your job and draw for 17 years

I think you'd be able to draw hands in about 6 months, but what nexT?

XandGash · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 7:16 am

boobs...

Binke · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 9:00 am

i second that. we need more boobs.

Coaster · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 1:10 pm

Watch as we now devote our lives to parties and dept, only to see the astroid miss the earth by mere metres...

meh, at least Rat will have more time to draw hands. But hell, if the world is going to be obliterated whats the point in drawing anyways?

FrustratedARTist · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 4:20 pm

I just better get laid by that year...

damn virginity,
frustrated

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Coaster · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 5:03 pm

I'm guessing that Dr. Bang or Lunatique can give you advice in that area.

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if you want advice on how to pick up other men using the internet...

Jabo · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 4:44 am

Well, don't be too optimistic, Rat, if we don't stop killing ourselves, you might die even before the asteroid crosses earth :?

Coaster · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:47 am

DAMMIT! http://msnbc.com/news/787078.asp?cp1=1