Giant Asteroid to hit Earth in 2014

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

I think that after the asteroid hits, the dust from the impact will cover the sun for a good 2 years thus causing plants to die and limiting the human races chances of surviving.

 

Unless, you have a 2 years worth supply of canned foods.

[Guest Jack Tunney]

How many ICBM's would it take to blow that thing up?

[Ced 0]

I guess I have to remember to keep about a thousand or so dollars of debt on my credit card so I can call up those creditors in our last fleeting moments and say to them "I win."

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

Anyone actually terrified that an asteroid could hit the earth in 2014?

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Hopefully, I'll be dead before the end of the world comes

[sfaJack 0]

Hopefully, I'll be dead before the end of the world comes

Not me. I want to see what happens.

[dutchse.cx 0]

Asteroid strike ruled out for 2014

After alert, further observations eliminate risk of collision

 

By Alan Boyle

MSNBC

 

 

      Sept. 2 —  After sounding the alarm about a kilometer-wide asteroid, astronomers said Tuesday that further data eliminated the possibility of a catastrophic collision in 2014. This week’s alert followed the up-and-down course that is typical for observations of near-Earth objects.

 

Fuck.

[Guest Boo_Bradley]

Well here's hoping for that Chinese Invasion through Alaska I've heard so much about...

[notJames 0]

I keep getting visions of the title sequence to Thundarr the Barbarian:

 

The year 1994: From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction.

 

I don't think I'm prepared to live in world like that. Damn you, runaway planet! Damn you all to hell!!!

[Guest El Satanico]

Nooooo...I can't live in a world full of Carocks!

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

This works out to about 17 000 megatons of energy. By comparison the Chicxulub impactor (the one that wiped out the dinosaurs) hit with 1 000 000 000 megatons of energy. It will be devastating, but there is no reason to think the human race won't survive.

[Ripper 0]

This works out to about 17 000 megatons of energy. By comparison the Chicxulub impactor (the one that wiped out the dinosaurs) hit with 1 000 000 000 megatons of energy. It will be devastating, but there is no reason to think the human race won't survive.

So...in other words this can of Raid ain't gonna do shit against these roaches if they survived

1 000 000 000 megatons of energy....SHIT!!

 

*stops spraying*

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

I plan to dissapear under R'lyeh.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Hopefully, I'll be dead before the end of the world comes

Not me. I want to see what happens.

Spoiler (Highlight to Read):

There's a big bang, and people die.

 

I'm still looking out for the last three that were supposed to hit the Earth.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Its times like this I wish that Morgan Freeman was president. 

 

*wishes*

Hell no. Give me a Bruce Willis oil driller hitting golf balls at hippies any day...

fuck that Michael Bay bullshit, give me Sean Connery!

[The Czech Republic 0]

I think that after the asteroid hits, the dust from the impact will cover the sun for a good 2 years thus causing plants to die and limiting the human races chances of surviving.

 

Unless, you have a 2 years worth supply of canned foods.

Canned food, supplied by the food man, who goes around delivering food to girls and boys, you know like the milkman, but the food man.

[Ravenbomb 0]

We've got one of those around here. Schwanz is the name of the company, I think. They had these REALLY good chicken sandwiches, but they started getting expensive, so now we don't order from them anymore.

[Guest Eddie]

Well im Catholic and i believe god will help Earth through this and even thought i dont want to die....at least ill die happy from getting laid by 20 hot paranoi women !

[godthedog 0]

I think that after the asteroid hits, the dust from the impact will cover the sun for a good 2 years thus causing plants to die and limiting the human races chances of surviving.

 

Unless, you have a 2 years worth supply of canned foods.

Canned food, supplied by the food man, who goes around delivering food to girls and boys, you know like the milkman, but the food man.

<marks out>

[Firestarter 0]

Ah, the immortal dream that is Joe Smloe.

[Justice 0]

Ah, the immortal dream that is Joe Smloe.

That's a beautiful thread, by the by.

[alfdogg 0]

Asteroid strike ruled out for 2014

After alert, further observations eliminate risk of collision

 

By Alan Boyle

MSNBC

 

 

      Sept. 2 —  After sounding the alarm about a kilometer-wide asteroid, astronomers said Tuesday that further data eliminated the possibility of a catastrophic collision in 2014. This week’s alert followed the up-and-down course that is typical for observations of near-Earth objects.

 

Fuck.

Yeah, there goes my chance of ever getting laid.

[Guest Boo_Bradley]

At least your honest

[Skywarp! 0]

"Between Mars and Jupiter there's a gap for another planet, now way back, yeah, maybe a madman just blew the shit out of it?"

[dubq 0]

Anyone actually terrified that an asteroid could hit the earth in 2014?

It could hit tomorrow and it wouldn't be any scarier. This fucking species needs a reboot.

[Guest Boo_Bradley]

Could an enormous volcanic eruption have killed the dinosaurs?

 

Cardiff University -- The extinction of the dinosaurs -– thought to be caused by an asteroid impact some 65 million years ago –- was more likely to have been caused by a 'mantle plume' -– a huge volcanic eruption from deep within the earth's mantle, the region between the crust and the core of the earth.

 

 

This theory, already supported by a significant body of geologists and palaeontologists, is strengthened by new evidence to be presented at an international conference at Cardiff University on 11-12 September.

 

 

 

 

Research by an American earth scientist, Professor Gerta Keller and her team, suggests that a similar eruption under the Indian Ocean several million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs had a similarly devastating impact on the environment.

 

 

However, at this earlier time there is no evidence of any asteroid impact.

 

 

Her findings are based on analysis of microfossil assemblages, which were found inside cores that had been drilled deep into sediments on the ocean floor.

 

 

The eruptions that were responsible for these two extinction events were as a result of mantle plumes -– a phenomenon caused by rising hot mantle from deep within the earth.

 

 

Likened to the actions of a lava lamp, the mantle's heat causes it to rise and mushroom out; it then flattens causing the mantle to melt and erupt magma over the earth's surface and across an area of some 1,000 kilometres diameter.

 

 

These eruptions last between one and two million years and more than one million cubic kilometres of lava can be erupted in that time.

 

 

Today, we can witness seven huge remnants of such mantle plume activity. These are also known as 'hotspots' and are responsible for the volcanic activity on Iceland, the islands of Hawaii, Easter, Reunion, Tristan and Louisville as well as volcanism in the Afar region of Ethopia.

 

 

"Mantle plumes are literally a hot topic for debate," said conference organiser Dr Andrew Kerr of Cardiff University's School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.

 

 

"They are a catalyst for the formation of ocean basins and fundamentally reshaping the earth's surfaces. The massive outpouring of lava, ashes, and gas can have significant effects on climate, which destabilises the environment and have the potential to dictate the course of evolution. It is likely that were it not for mantle plumes, mammals would not have become predominant, and humankind would not be here today.

 

 

"Bizarrely, amongst earth scientists, there is also a vocal minority who don't believe that mantle plumes exist at all. This conference is therefore an opportunity to address these issues and validity of the links between mantle plumes with the evolution of life by bringing together geophysicists, petrologists and palaeontologists."

 

 

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So the dinos didn't get killed by one, but WE may!

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

Christ, not this again. Yes, this is the secondary theory on the extinction, but it has been disregarded by any scientist worth their paycheck a long time ago.

 

If you find a body on the ground with a bullet hole in his head, and a smoking gun lying two feet away, he did not likely die of a knife attack. This is essentially the same situation we've got here.

 

There was mass volcanism around this time, and yes dinosaur populations were in decline at the K-T Boundary, but the direct cause of the extinction was the Chixculub impactor.