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Colin Davies wrote: Now why was the Whitehouse evacuated the other day and senior execs dispersed ? Surely it wouldnt do anything to move if it did hit. If it were big enough to devastate a continent/planet, moving from the whitehouse aint gonna do much.
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Hey so what if I'm a geek! Byte me!Nah, at most it would have wasted a large City, and caused a few quakes and some big waves. But the idea is in an emergency like that to scatter high officials to lots of different locations. At least thats what they would do if Hollywood was producing this. :-) [like independance day] Hey it could have been a mother ship:-) Remember though that this space trash can come in assorted clusters. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Anonymous wrote: Plus they found out late I know, thats there excuse, I suspect they knew all along and they covered it up so folk wouldn't panic. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote: they covered it up so folk wouldn't panic. Yeah right, like we've all got some place to run and hide ;P Chris
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Colin Davies wrote: they covered it up so folk wouldn't panic. Yeah right, like we've all got some place to run and hide ;P Chris
Ok Chris, in due respect to both our humours. "What do you believe the Governments would do if they thought a asteroid the size of an H-Bomb had a 20% chance of going of anywhere on the planets face" ? Please contemplate it for a moment, Do you really think they would tell us ? :-) But yeah, theres not a lot anyone can do about it. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
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Ok Chris, in due respect to both our humours. "What do you believe the Governments would do if they thought a asteroid the size of an H-Bomb had a 20% chance of going of anywhere on the planets face" ? Please contemplate it for a moment, Do you really think they would tell us ? :-) But yeah, theres not a lot anyone can do about it. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote: But yeah, theres not a lot anyone can do about it. You could send up Bruce Willis and an A-Bomb to blow it out of the sky* *But he needs 18 days warning or he's not available Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.
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We should have at least be warned :mad: Regardz Colin J Davies
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You know what might be worse than an asteroid hitting the earth? A very huge deep sky object just barely grazing by at an angle that is retrograde to earth's rotation. The huge gravitational pull from this object would slow the earth's spin, increase gravity dramatically. Suddenly we'd all be crushed under our own weight, building and bridges everywhere would collapse, and if anyone happened to survive the immense air pressure would cave their skulls in. Beside all that, even if we survived the global structural colapse, and density of air pressure, the days would become much longer, playing havoc with ecosystems everywhere. When all the animals died out of starvation due to their decreased mobilty and increased need for energy to simply get around, we would soon follow. That would be worse than a direct hit I think. Of course the moon itself would also fall out of orbit and destroy the earth anyway, it might take a few days though. On the other hand if the object passed by and sped up the earth's rotation gravity would be drastically reduced, we would all suddenly be able to jump like fleas. All birds and planes would drop from the sky as the air would be too thin for aerodynamics to work. It seems like it would be kinda fun for a few minutes, until the tidal waves arrived, but the air would be too thin to do any excersize other than just laying there gasping for oxygen. We would also lose the moon to deep space as well and the days would suddenly turn in no time at all. We would all of the sudden have a lot more days in a year and the global ecosystem would be drastically effected. God help us all if the big object passed by at a weird angle and the planet started to wobble. :eek: Why not throw away a dime? I throw away ten pennies all the time.
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Colin Davies wrote: Now why was the Whitehouse evacuated the other day and senior execs dispersed ? Surely it wouldnt do anything to move if it did hit. If it were big enough to devastate a continent/planet, moving from the whitehouse aint gonna do much.
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Hey so what if I'm a geek! Byte me!Jonny Newman wrote: Surely it wouldnt do anything to move if it did hit. If it were big enough to devastate a continent/planet, moving from the whitehouse aint gonna do much. it helps if you are in the air when it smacks the ground,, you can ride the earthquake out, and then land -John
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You know what might be worse than an asteroid hitting the earth? A very huge deep sky object just barely grazing by at an angle that is retrograde to earth's rotation. The huge gravitational pull from this object would slow the earth's spin, increase gravity dramatically. Suddenly we'd all be crushed under our own weight, building and bridges everywhere would collapse, and if anyone happened to survive the immense air pressure would cave their skulls in. Beside all that, even if we survived the global structural colapse, and density of air pressure, the days would become much longer, playing havoc with ecosystems everywhere. When all the animals died out of starvation due to their decreased mobilty and increased need for energy to simply get around, we would soon follow. That would be worse than a direct hit I think. Of course the moon itself would also fall out of orbit and destroy the earth anyway, it might take a few days though. On the other hand if the object passed by and sped up the earth's rotation gravity would be drastically reduced, we would all suddenly be able to jump like fleas. All birds and planes would drop from the sky as the air would be too thin for aerodynamics to work. It seems like it would be kinda fun for a few minutes, until the tidal waves arrived, but the air would be too thin to do any excersize other than just laying there gasping for oxygen. We would also lose the moon to deep space as well and the days would suddenly turn in no time at all. We would all of the sudden have a lot more days in a year and the global ecosystem would be drastically effected. God help us all if the big object passed by at a weird angle and the planet started to wobble. :eek: Why not throw away a dime? I throw away ten pennies all the time.
Yes that sort of stuff would be horrid but is very feasible. I'm very confident that most of todays interplanetary scientists have got a lot of simple stuff wrong, and a disaster like you suggest is far more probable than they would like to demonstrate. Sorry but I will mot elaborate on this as more idiots would ask stupid questions and as usual overlook basic math and logic to support the teachings of the ignorant academic community that encrust themselves with undeserved honors. But such stuff should not put us off continuing our regular existence as all the odds are independent . kevnar wrote: God help us all if the big object passed by at a weird angle and the planet started to wobble. Actually I'm quite confident that God would help us, and one-day we should liberate our main satellite as a simple safety measure. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Jonny Newman wrote: Surely it wouldnt do anything to move if it did hit. If it were big enough to devastate a continent/planet, moving from the whitehouse aint gonna do much. it helps if you are in the air when it smacks the ground,, you can ride the earthquake out, and then land -John
John Morales wrote: it helps if you are in the air when it smacks the ground,, you can ride the earthquake out, and then land Yes I have heard that as well, and thats one of the functions of Airfoce-One or whatever its called. Also there is something about facing the plane into the shockwaves as it passes through the air. I guess nobody has really tested this stuff yet. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote: But yeah, theres not a lot anyone can do about it. You could send up Bruce Willis and an A-Bomb to blow it out of the sky* *But he needs 18 days warning or he's not available Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.
Roger Allen wrote: *But he needs 18 days warning or he's not available We are sadly lacking real heroes these days, there are too many of these wimps being idolized who have put on there make-up before they save the world. Regardz Colin J Davies
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You know what might be worse than an asteroid hitting the earth? A very huge deep sky object just barely grazing by at an angle that is retrograde to earth's rotation. The huge gravitational pull from this object would slow the earth's spin, increase gravity dramatically. Suddenly we'd all be crushed under our own weight, building and bridges everywhere would collapse, and if anyone happened to survive the immense air pressure would cave their skulls in. Beside all that, even if we survived the global structural colapse, and density of air pressure, the days would become much longer, playing havoc with ecosystems everywhere. When all the animals died out of starvation due to their decreased mobilty and increased need for energy to simply get around, we would soon follow. That would be worse than a direct hit I think. Of course the moon itself would also fall out of orbit and destroy the earth anyway, it might take a few days though. On the other hand if the object passed by and sped up the earth's rotation gravity would be drastically reduced, we would all suddenly be able to jump like fleas. All birds and planes would drop from the sky as the air would be too thin for aerodynamics to work. It seems like it would be kinda fun for a few minutes, until the tidal waves arrived, but the air would be too thin to do any excersize other than just laying there gasping for oxygen. We would also lose the moon to deep space as well and the days would suddenly turn in no time at all. We would all of the sudden have a lot more days in a year and the global ecosystem would be drastically effected. God help us all if the big object passed by at a weird angle and the planet started to wobble. :eek: Why not throw away a dime? I throw away ten pennies all the time.
kevnar wrote: slow the earth's spin, increase gravity dramatically Um, what? Gravity is a result of the Earth's mass, not its rotation. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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kevnar wrote: slow the earth's spin, increase gravity dramatically Um, what? Gravity is a result of the Earth's mass, not its rotation. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Yes, but the earth's spin counters gravity a certain degree. It's called centrifugal force I believe. Didn't you ever put an action figure on a turn table when you were a kid? I used to wonder, if the earth is spinning, how come we don't fly off, my wise old uncle Gordon simply said gravity. I thought gravity was the result of centripetal force in my own naive way. Later I learned the gravity is inherent in the mass of an object. Why not throw away a dime? I throw away ten pennies all the time.