Lyon2
Feb 19 2007, 07:30 PM
| | Asteroid Has Fairly Good Chances Striking Earth in 2036
Source: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=264972007
I do not know about you, but i am somewhat scared with this news, i mean, they say they have a plan, and they have the money for it, but just imagine, imagine an asteroid strickes hearth, our planet, at least, billions of people will die, or with the blast or with the cold/warm weather caused by the asteroid blast.
It is obvious that it is inevitable that, some day, in the future, an asteroid, a meteor, will strike earth, but hey, 2036 i plan to be living quite well, and i am sure you too, so what do you feel about this, i advice you to pay atention, this news comes from a credible site and source, as you can see.
Remember the armaggedon movie? Feels like i am going to see it again, live!
What do you feel about this?
Do you beleave it it can really strike earth in 2036, or even later/sooner? (I beleave so) |
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Kubi
Feb 19 2007, 08:08 PM
Very interesting. So we're going to spend 150Euros to by some gravity tractor to POSSIBLY move the meteor off it's course....Do we even have that technology yet? I suppose it's plausable. It must be rather far away, considering it's speed...28,000MPH..Someone should give it a speeding ticket... Lets see...80,000 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb...so what, that's a couple...continents? If this thing hits...we're pretty much dead. (Not all of us ofcourse). QUOTE Astronomers warned then that between now and 2079, there would be at least 38 potentially hazardous encounters with rogue asteroids. Uhm, we better buy a lot more Gravity tractor. I don't see anything that says where it's headed? Am I missing this?
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Marina
Feb 19 2007, 08:32 PM
those things scares me too.I don't want to die like this but I guess that if its happens I will have too lol.I just hope that when it will happens if it does I will be with my loves one particulary my daughter.
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TypoMage
Feb 19 2007, 08:58 PM
Are you serious! They better have a plan because if they do not. We are screwed. So I hope that there plan works out good.
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PEUGEOT
Feb 20 2007, 12:03 AM
I can't believe what i hear but it seems to be true! That catastrofic, if the asteroid hit the Earth! I hope Nasa have a good plan for this!
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gaea
Feb 20 2007, 04:57 AM
QUOTE(Scotsman.com @ Feb 20 2007, 12:03 AM)  Scientists have estimated the asteroid has a one-in-45,000 chance of striking Earth on 13 April, 2036. So I wouldn't recommend getting all crazy...atleast not yet 
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electriic ink
Feb 20 2007, 08:15 AM
QUOTE Astronomers warned then that between now and 2079, there would be at least 38 potentially hazardous encounters with rogue asteroids. So that's one every two years - we must have already some sort of action plan when this has happened before and I'm sure that because they are spending 150 Million Pounds on it, it won't fail. We have 30 years to deal with this; I bet nothing will go wrong.
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shadowx
Feb 20 2007, 02:38 PM
Im not very worried but then i don't get very worried about things like this so maybe its just me, but as quoted above its not very likely to hit us anyway. And i understand from the article that a "gravity tractor" is simply a big spaceship that exerts gravitational force due to its size, as all objects do, which is enough to move the asteroid perhaps a millimeter of curse every few thousand miles that accumulate to be enough to steer it off course and avoid us.
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Lyon2
Feb 20 2007, 02:45 PM
One thing i must agree, with should not o crazy and act like crazy because of that, but i am sure lots of people will use this excuse to do crazy and unresponsable/childish acts. I feel like this news will bring much pain, suffering, and lots of more bad things to our world, to a world still full of bad things to fix, but i hope we all get together to work in a solution for this very big problem, and especially for the ones that we already have and likely we will have in a very nearest future. That is up to us to workout solutions for our problems, and maybe this threat will brings us together, and we all know that people, human beeings, almost only act when the "bad" happened already.
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kraizii88z
Feb 20 2007, 02:54 PM
Read that again, it's a 1 in 45,000 chance that it will hit earth. I wouldn't worry about it. It basically says that there is no chance of it hitting Earth. Looks like the Scotsman is just trying to make sensationalist headlines.
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FLaKes
May 9 2007, 08:43 PM
it still has good chances to hit earth, 1 /45000 isnt really much and if we add to that the error percentage it could be more, or it could be less. What if something along its way makes it slightly change its trayectory.
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heavensounds
May 9 2007, 06:43 PM
Well, I think that this is quite possible and even probable, if we do not stop doing things the way we are now. Spending money for prevention of the collision is, however, just a good marketing move and something that will calm the public down. I don't think that there is anything we can do, if this asteroid is really facing towards us. But lets look at it that way: What is it going to change for us? It will be just another problem, we will have to face, because of our attachment to this world and our body! Imagine that you are not attached to this body and this world, life...think about the freedom that awaits you in this realization! It is acctually nothing more than mere realization that THINGS ARE JUST THE WAY THEY ARE and you cannot change them even though you spend hours being angry because of the cruelty of this world.. Why not accept it, instead? Believe me that if you do accept everything around you just as it is, the asteroid won't be a problem anymore! Best whishes
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Robbie.Knox
May 9 2007, 06:04 PM
People are going way to over the top on this. Asteroids are nowhere near as bad as some people are making them out to be most of the time. Hundreds of rocks and stuff from space strike the Earth every year, but nothing is done about it. It's just unlikely that an asteroid that big would hit the Earth. In the Earth's life HUGE asteroids have collided with the Earth. If it did wipe out eveyr living organism on the planet, then we wouldn't be here today, as we wouldn't have had anything to evolve from.
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kraizii88z
May 9 2007, 05:39 PM
I don't think anything's gonna happen. I mean, if it was the end of the world, then just die and suck it up. Live like you mean it. Live fast -- die young --and leave a beautiful corpse. --James Dean Live like you're gonna die ..in 2036. It only has a small chance of hitting earth. Lots and lots of meteriods hit earth DAILY, and major big ones slide by without any harm. Lots and lots of others, I'm sure most scientists don't even know about. We don't need something like this hanging over our heads. People in all times and eras have cried the end of the world, but it obviously hasn't happened. So you should just LIVE the best we can, because the end could come anytime, personally or world-wide. Could come before then, you don't know. And if it does, then what are you going to look back on on reckoning day? A life filed with fear of the end of the world, or a life filled with love and happiness.. It doesn't matter how or when you die, only what you do while you're alive.
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Lyon2
May 9 2007, 09:11 AM
hitmanblood, that is a good observation, a good point, if the scientists made errors in their calculations, which is very likely because there are a lot of variables to consider in order to calculate if an asteroid would or would not hit our planet. Yes, we should really pray for this asteroid not to hit us, but if it will, i am just going to enjoy my live the the maximum till then, just playing safe, but then, i am going to enjoy it anyway, like i been doing so far but much more now!
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