TheRainbowBoxer wrote: Pretty cool videos in the new article.  Apparently an estimated 10 ton meteor exploded over Russia this morning.  About 400 people injured, mostly from glass broken by the boom.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/1696 9092-hundreds-injured-as-meteor-fireball-screams-a cross-the-sky-in-russia?lite

ThrowItToWinslow wrote:

TheRainbowBoxer wrote: Pretty cool videos in the new article.  Apparently an estimated 10 ton meteor exploded over Russia this morning.  About 400 people injured, mostly from glass broken by the boom.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/1696 9092-hundreds-injured-as-meteor-fireball-screams-a cross-the-sky-in-russia?lite

wtf is that disturbing avatar?

Chopper9 wrote: Stuff like this makes you realize how small we really are.

bwwyyyy wrote:

Chopper9 wrote: Stuff like this makes you realize how small we really are.

Yep, you can't help but get all bogged down in the routine, day-to-day, ratrace BS; then you see someone spinning around in an avatar and it puts things right back into perspective.

do we even want to know what he is spinning on?

bwwyyyy wrote: The OP looks a little like someone I went to high school with, whose name may have possibly begun with the letter D.

IF ONLY HE'D STAY STILL, I COULD MAYBE FIGURE IT OUT

chirodawg wrote: FYI there is currently (as in Feb 15th) an asteroid half the size of a football field that is passing between earth and our communication satellites.  That one isn't going to hit us now or in the future


but.....


in 2029 on April 13th the asteroid Apophis will also pass close enough to earth to be closer than our comm satellites.  It's the size of the Rose Bowl.  Interestingly, if it passes with a specific 600 mile "keyhole" when it swings back around in 2042 (although I've also read 2036) then it will hit earth about 500 miles off of Santa Monica.  This would be a very bad day for West Coasters and the initial impact in the ocean would create a 300' wall of water to be followed by increasingly damaging follow up waves.

So there's that.

TheRainbowBoxer wrote: That is my IRL, bored at work, screwing around with the messenger live video avatar tool, odd self.


...and now I have that song in my head. Thanks matey :D

Chopper9 wrote: I propose we sent up a team of miners... plant some dynamite and blow the sonovabitch to kingdom come!

Anybody know any bad actors willing to take on this challenge???

chirodawg wrote:

Chopper9 wrote: I propose we sent up a team of miners... plant some dynamite and blow the sonovabitch to kingdom come!

Anybody know any bad actors willing to take on this challenge???

The key to this project is the giant laser, which was invented by the noted Cambridge physicist, Dr. Parsons. So therefore, it is fitting to call it: "The Alan Parsons Project".

FestivusRules wrote: Some scientists believe that there is about a 1 in 500 chance of an asteroid big enough to cause catastrophic damage hitting the earth in the next 100 years.  And there's no way that we could calculate the collision early enough to do anything about it.

I've also heard the number 1 in 400, etc.  Those odds aren't that likely.  Just think that the Browns were something like 1 in 100 of winning the SB last year.  I could have told you that wasn't going to happen.

But given enough 100 year timespans, it will eventually happen.  The Browns winning it all and the asteroid hitting the earth.  Let's hope that the former happens first.

TheShank wrote: Its good that thing exploded before it made impact. An astronomer on CNN said if a meteor that size made impact, on say a city like Washington D.C., it would destroy it up to the outer beltway.

It wouldn't make that big of a crater, but the shockwave would be devastating. They have a huge mass, plus traveling thousands of mph. Think they said equivalent to something like 2 million tons of TNT.

TheShank wrote:

FestivusRules wrote: Some scientists believe that there is about a 1 in 500 chance of an asteroid big enough to cause catastrophic damage hitting the earth in the next 100 years.  And there's no way that we could calculate the collision early enough to do anything about it.

I've also heard the number 1 in 400, etc.  Those odds aren't that likely.  Just think that the Browns were something like 1 in 100 of winning the SB last year.  I could have told you that wasn't going to happen.

But given enough 100 year timespans, it will eventually happen.  The Browns winning it all and the asteroid hitting the earth.  Let's hope that the former happens first.

I'm not so sure of that. If there is one thing man is pretty good at , its blowing things up.
Usually they can project the trajectory and path of an asteroid or meteor flight pretty far in advance. No ?

Wasn't project Deep Impact done successfully sometime this past decade ? They didn't blow it up but escavated samples from a comet.