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Earth avoids collision with pair of asteroids
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ThoseDeafMutes
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2012: Unexpected near earth miss results in political pressure to create a UN led asteroid defense programme.
2015: First dedicated space-based asteroid detection satellite is launched into high earth orbit.
2019: First successful midcourse asteroid deflection test performed on mid sized asteroid.
2022: First commercial space mining operation begins preparations.
2023: UN Space Guard extends charter to cover the safe transfer of mineral rich asteroids to Earth Orbit for commercial mining operations.
2024: Half Life 3 officially announced for release.
2015: First dedicated space-based asteroid detection satellite is launched into high earth orbit.
2019: First successful midcourse asteroid deflection test performed on mid sized asteroid.
2022: First commercial space mining operation begins preparations.
2023: UN Space Guard extends charter to cover the safe transfer of mineral rich asteroids to Earth Orbit for commercial mining operations.
2024: Half Life 3 officially announced for release.
"in the fall of 2026 on Windows 13, the Apple iWin console, and maybe on the Wii W later".
Earth will be a smoldering pile of ash and space debris far before Valve releases Half Life 3. The project, finished with the assistance of sentient nano-machines after the demise of the human race, will be shot into space in data form in hopes of an alien species discovering it, to share in our disappointment that they'll have to wait for time to cylindrically restart to see a sequel.
THIS TIME!
TwiztidElf
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A rogue gamma ray burst and we're all dead before anyone even knew.
Just read the wiki. Well, only half of the earth would be hit, so I hope I'm on the other side.
Just read the wiki. Well, only half of the earth would be hit, so I hope I'm on the other side.
Unless it reflects off the moon. No I'm not kidding. Read an article that discussed a possible scenario for a mass extinction involving this. Fuck that shit. Fuck the Universe.
Maybe in 15 years we can put the string theory to use and just enter an alternate state.
We should put some considerable thought into blowing that mother fucker up.
Err... No I'd probably want to be hit directly rather than suffer.Just read the wiki. Well, only half of the earth would be hit, so I hope I'm on the other side.
freenudemacusers
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won't matter if the earth is caught flat-footed.
The Elite
BOSS
We already have a solution for that, LSD.
The one we discovered recently was the little one.
Also, they don't say the big one will hit in 600 years, it says they're confident in their prediction out to at least 600 years. It'll be longer when they crunch this new data.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Today we stopped the apocalypse!
Seriously though, that's incredible.
Seriously though, that's incredible.
Oh. Well that makes a big difference. Phew.
Could still cause some major damage though.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
We didn't stop shit, we lucked out. Wait until that luck runs out...
astroturfing
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well if there are billions of rocks/comets with that chance in our solar system, the overall chance goes way up.
and hey your piss has trillions and trillions of particles, some of them very well could hit Ms Hilton eventually heh.
stop it you're scaring me
Messypandas
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This is why we needed Patrick Moore on night watch
ElectricBlue187
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that'll learn em' good
I know civilization-rending asteroids are a big deal to some people, but have they seen how much I pay a month for groceries?
ElectricBlue187
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we need to fix the problems here on earth before worrying about detecting massive space rocks that could end all of the intelligent life in the universe we know of.
Destroy only 30% of the planet you say? I like those odds.
If we are still alive in 600 years we can either live on another planet or destroy an asteroid. Hell at the rate tech is advancing we will just let the robots deal with it.
Well then, those people don't need to worry.
We can't even come up with a fiscal plan ahead of time to avoid running into huge problems in a year's time.
Bumblebeetuna
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Robots plot to stand down, inherit now inhabitable Earth.
Also, I wonder when the smaller one is set to return. If it was this close on the first pass by, I wonder how much closer it will get each cycle.
Anyone seen Melancholia? This shit reminds me of it. Scary stuff.
krameriffic
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We won't still be here. And whoever is will probably have the techmology to take care of it when it comes around.
OK, lets also get this straight. They didn't say anything about it being "due" to hit earth in 600 years. Evolving the trajectory of a many-body gravitational system 600 years forward in time is not an exact science, and one tiny error or change in the physical systems involved could put it millions of miles off from coming near us in that time frame.
We have the tech as it is, we just lack will to do anything about the asteroids. And by will i mean people would rather die rich than make sure they survive.
friskykillface
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Haha jeez just missing is 0_o crazy
And that's really scary to know that they would find it with less then a week to show, the fuck I'd want to visit friends etc and do last minute things but that would take more then a week.
Get a watch man to monitor the earth 24/7
And that's really scary to know that they would find it with less then a week to show, the fuck I'd want to visit friends etc and do last minute things but that would take more then a week.
Get a watch man to monitor the earth 24/7
What a fucking stupid sensationalist title.
One asteroid that would hardly be a cataclysmic impact passes the earth without incident but is a surprise to Scientists.
One asteroid that is well known to Scientists passes the earth AS FUCKING PREDICTED.
I hate science reporting.
We didn't luck out, the one Asteroid that passed within the Moons orbit wouldn't have a been a danger to anything outside of a few miles of it's impact, 15 meters wouldn't be very scary.
One asteroid that would hardly be a cataclysmic impact passes the earth without incident but is a surprise to Scientists.
One asteroid that is well known to Scientists passes the earth AS FUCKING PREDICTED.
I hate science reporting.
We didn't luck out, the one Asteroid that passed within the Moons orbit wouldn't have a been a danger to anything outside of a few miles of it's impact, 15 meters wouldn't be very scary.
It's small as shit, not a threat.
LegendofJoe
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If this ever happened our culure and society would be completely transformed within a few years. Pessimists don't give people enough credit. If the entire future of our species and planet was on the line we would rise up and do everything we could to beat the odds. And given 90 years I'm pretty damn confident we'd find a way.
Also, apparently the Chinese have a lunar probe that's going to be doing a close flyby of Toutatis today, though I don't know whether there will be any close pictures of it.
Pai Pai Master
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Meh, I wouldn't be too worried if an asteroid hit the earth and killed us all. Can't be helped, that's just the universe being the universe.
Now, destruction of the earth and humanity by mankind itself? That's way more scary to me.
Now, destruction of the earth and humanity by mankind itself? That's way more scary to me.
User 100115
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I am cringing at the overuse of massive in this passage.
I don't know if you know, but this asteroid was massive. It was massively massive. It was so massive, that it's massive shadow stretched across massive craters on our massive moon.
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Oh man, replace some of the words in the sentence above and that's a spam email about penis enlargement.
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