The Apocalypse

[Sickminded978]

Has anyone heard about that comet or asteroid or something coming to us? It is "supposedly" going to miss us as I've heard but I believe it is quite the conspiracy. I believe that it WILL hit us but our little government friends are just releasing lies to make our lives continue on the same. If we knew the comet was going to hit us, I believe this world would go into a minor to major state of panic...Not exactly sure of how much of an impact this would have on our society but I do know that a majority of us would at the least, be frightened. It is supposedly supposed to "pass" by us in about 10 years or so...Hopefully, our government is working on something to stop this damn thing from actually hitting us because from what I've read, this is an extinction-making comet. Please post your thoughts about this dreadful little mishappening to our world.

[talisman]

Not exactly sure of how much of an impact this would have on our society

^the funny....

[aleco]

Not going to happen.
Not like that.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

it's not going to happen, but if it were to happen...
well lets just say i'd hastily put together a checklist

[zajac]

ya
id hastily get a bunch of chicks

[fusi0n]

ya the government says that Mars isn't made out of cheese...but i think they want all that cheese for themselves.

[Master_of_PARANOiA]

ya the government says that Mars isn't made out of cheese...but i think they want all that cheese for themselves.

No, the moon is made of cheese. Mars is made of Strawberry Flavored gelatin.
If it was going to happen, I'd hastily sit on my ass and hastily play some RISK on WC3.

[perfect_fat]

It's going to happen eventually. Can you imagine an asteroid larger than the sun passing through our solar system? That would hit the planet so hard, not even the cockroaches would survive. All life is based on the chaos that is the universe, solar flares disrupting satellite communications etc. and eventually, something big is going to hit the earth. It may not be tomorrow, or the next day, or 5,000 years from now, but it's going to happen. It's almost inevitable with all of the junk flying around in space.

What people should be a little more worried about is satellites colliding in orbit. It's very, very likely, that if 2 satellites collided, it would set off a chain reaction taking out nearly every other satellite and send them crashing to the surface. Odds are they'll hit the ocean or unpopulated areas, but one could land in the middle of busy rush hour traffic in a major city, or the middle of a parade.

Shit happens.

[SephirothFF7]

Well considering the existense of an asteroid the size of the sun is IMPOSSIBLE because of the gravitational limits the sun sets on our solar system..ya know due to it's pull nothing in the solar system can be bigger than it..oh yes and the asteroid that he was talking about missed us by about 800 miles about a month ago...and how would two satellites colliding send them all down??????????? Explain your thesis. Also if an asteroid were to come near earth there is more than enough firepower to redirect in to the ocean or just destroy it.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

oh yes and the asteroid that he was talking about missed us by about 800 miles about a month ago

wow, that must have been a close one, considering 800 miles is IN OUR ATMOSPHERE

[jewpinthethird]

oh yes and the asteroid that he was talking about missed us by about 800 miles about a month ago

wow, that must have been a close one, considering 800 miles is IN OUR ATMOSPHERE

No, our atmosphere is only 372 miles or 600 km.

[Anonymous]

YEa, there was a one like 50 meters wide that came within like 500,000 km of the earth, like 2 weeks ago, and thats considered a pretty close call. Small, but it would still be big enough to take out a most of NYC.

Astroids are a pretty big threat. Chances of one that will cause the apocalyspe hitting, are very slim. Very, probably like a billion to one. It could still happen...of course...but honestly, I highly doubt an astroid big enough to end to world, will hit in the next few thousand years, as there really arn't that many in this solar system...sure, they're there, but we're alot more likely to be hit by something that won't kill us all. In a few centurys, we'll probably be tracking every astroid in the solor system anyway, and could stop it easily.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

Jewpin:
http://www.rcn27.dial.pipex.com/cloudsrus/atmosphere.html

my source of info. i figured 1000km is about 800m. But it does appear that the maximum height of the atmosphere is based on the author's opinion.

[BluE_MeaniE]

Above a height of about 500km is the exosphere, a layer where the atmosphere merges into space.

That's under 800 miles.

[perfect_fat]

Well considering the existense of an asteroid the size of the sun is IMPOSSIBLE because of the gravitational limits the sun sets on our solar system..ya know due to it's pull nothing in the solar system can be bigger than it..oh yes and the asteroid that he was talking about missed us by about 800 miles about a month ago...and how would two satellites colliding send them all down??????????? Explain your thesis. Also if an asteroid were to come near earth there is more than enough firepower to redirect in to the ocean or just destroy it.

Our sun is considered small. If a giant, like 5000 times the size of our sun, star supernova'd and took out a planet 50 times the size of the sun, and sent it hurtling our way it's possible. We'd probably be knocked out of orbit first and everybody would fly into the atmosphere (I think) but I can't see a reason why anybody can say it couldn't definitively happen when we don't know everything about the universe.

[deposition]

what i think will happen:

1)commet will fly right past us

2)You will feel really stupid

[alainbryden]

pwnd

[Lupin_the_3rd]

Above a height of about 500km is the exosphere, a layer where the atmosphere merges into space.

That's under 800 miles.

Although the atmosphere extends to a height of 1000km, it is nevertheless still very important for life on the surface of the Earth. This is because of something known as air pressure, which we will learn more about on the next page.

[SephirothFF7]

Lupin..you were..wrong..so next time don't be so quick to flame my posts.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

i am in no way wrong. The source i got it from says 1000km. Read the whole page. Maybe that information is incorrect, maybe it is correct.

[Anonymous]

An Astroid 800 miles away or whatever would be pulled in by earths gravity. Trust me, any astroid that comes that close hits o_O Anything closer than the distance of the moon...is a pretty close call in space terms.

As for the star supernova'ing comment...any star that supernova's isn't going to leave any debris big enough to do anything.

[BluE_MeaniE]

Above a height of about 500km is the exosphere, a layer where the atmosphere merges into space.

That's under 800 miles.

Although the atmosphere extends to a height of 1000km, it is nevertheless still very important for life on the surface of the Earth. This is because of something known as air pressure, which we will learn more about on the next page.

Then I apologize. I only read the beginning of the site. But okay, then, nevermind.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

heh, not that it matters anyway. As a matter of fact, i believe that your facts are right...I just did some additional research at other websites. It tends to be around 550km. There is no definite end to the atmosphere, it just kind of thins out.

And Guest is right. Something flying 800miles away from us would definitely be pulled in by our tractor beams(set on full power) and hit us. At the very least, it would cause tidal waves in Japan or something... Not that anyone would care.

[Cenright]

Ok, Let's say an asteroid of meteoroid is about the size of the earth or bigger. That chunk of rock does not have to hit the earth to do damage. It's gravitational pull and ours would make them to pull on each other, greatly altering the earth's orbit path around the sun (and the free-flying path of the rock), which could send us into the sun, or just make our orbit more eliptical because we are pulled towards or away (depending on which side the rock passes the earth), meaning the earth would get much hotter and much colder, depending on whether the earth is at apogee or parogee to the sun.

[jewpinthethird]

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/atmosphere.html

Government/Nasa issued website.

[Yanah_God]

the real apocolyse will happen when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide

if we aren't out of the galaxy or extinct by then, we are doomed

[trillobyite]

Well, 50+ astroids have already headed toward Earth, but they have all been stopped by Jupiter. The reason why out of the millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt, none have truly threatened Earth too much is because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter, which basically gets all the comets to crash on it.

[RenmazuoGK]

Eventually everything's survival rate drops to 0. With all those asteroids flying by, eventually one is going to hit. I don't care whether the chances are .0001% that it's going to hit. There's still a chance.

[COBOL]

just read revelations

[perfect_fat]

I'm with RenmazuoGK. Everything dies. Every one of us is going to die. Once we learn to accept that, rather than fear it, we can move on with our lives.

[JustJono]

I believe I read somewhere that our solar system has twins. But the other sun is a white dawrf, and has an orbit around the sun we see today. And eventually, that sun could come whipping around and bitch slap every planet in it's path.

Yanah God is right too. There will be real havoc if the Milky Way collides with Andromeda. *evil grin*

OR, our sun could drag us into a nearby black hole. BUT WHO KNOWS NOW A DAYS, EH?!

[Monoc]

I think that we can safely say that nothing huge will hit us in our lifetime, and if a smaller asteroid happens to have an intercept course, it will be small enough for us to knock it far enough away with nukes.
I'm all for hypothetical what if's about the apocalypse, but I think we've got a few issues to work out on earth before we worry about andromida crashing into us...

I'm not sure how off topic this is, but what do you guys think of the tenth planet? The one that is (i think) half the size of pluto and revolves the sun once every thousand years (could be a lot more, i don't remember the details).

[fusi0n]

OMGZ LOOKOUT THE WORLD IS TEH END OMOMGOMG

[alainbryden]

you watch WAY too many movies.

[JustJono]

Monoc, I'm sure there are hundreds of planets further in our solar system, but they're so far that it's hard to tell if they're part of our solar system or a neighbouring solar system.