What would happen if a 'large' asteroid hit the earth?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LlF8APEkh-E
make the beast with two backs it. lol we all have to die someday right?
The good news is you won't know when it happens, because you'll be dead before you can blink.
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 08:04:08 AM
The good news is you won't know when it happens, because you'll be dead before you can blink.
depends on which side of the impact you're on. if you're on the far side, you'll have plenty of time to ponder your demise.
Quote from: derby on September 02, 2008, 08:05:34 AM
depends on which side of the impact you're on. if you're on the far side, you'll have plenty of time to ponder your demise.
Yeah, probably about a minute or so before you get obliterated. Enough time to decide if you kill yourself or die in an apocalyptic inferno. Assuming the shock of impact didn't level the whole city and entomb most people in the wreckage.
Ah fun stuff. Personally I'm rooting for the zombie holocaust. At least then I can have some fun before I inevitably get eaten.
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 08:11:00 AM
Ah fun stuff. Personally I'm rooting for the zombie holocaust. At least then I can have some fun before I inevitably get eaten.
Bring on the zombies! I am MORE than ready! [cheeky]
Well that was a real pick-me-up to start the week...
Won't Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck save us?
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 08:11:00 AM
Yeah, probably about a minute or so before you get obliterated. Enough time to decide if you kill yourself or die in an apocalyptic inferno. Assuming the shock of impact didn't level the whole city and entomb most people in the wreckage.
Ah fun stuff. Personally I'm rooting for the zombie holocaust. At least then I can have some fun before I inevitably get eaten.
Im ready for the zombies too i say bring it on!
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 08:11:00 AM
Yeah, probably about a minute or so before you get obliterated. Enough time to decide if you kill yourself or die in an apocalyptic inferno. Assuming the shock of impact didn't level the whole city and entomb most people in the wreckage.
Ah fun stuff. Personally I'm rooting for the zombie holocaust. At least then I can have some fun before I inevitably get eaten.
You think a firestorm could encircle the planet in one minute?
I could think of worse ways to bite it.
Somehow, I always knew that the end of life on earth would have a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.
Quote from: ducsix on September 02, 2008, 09:30:31 AM
Well that was a real pick-me-up to start the week...
[laugh]
OK..missing the "beautiful" part?! That scares the sh*t out of me and the music does too!! Actually, the Vampire-Ronald McDonald in Nex' signature looked like he was the one screaming.
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 08:11:00 AM
Ah fun stuff. Personally I'm rooting for the zombie holocaust. At least then I can have some fun before I inevitably get eaten.
Nonsense, at the end of World War Z (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z) we eventually fight back and defeat the zombie hordes.
At least i won't have to keep paying my mortgage off. [thumbsup]
Quote from: Super T.I.B on September 02, 2008, 02:31:12 PM
At least i won't have to keep paying my mortgage off. [thumbsup]
Plus, it'll be lakefront property. A lake of molten lava.
Quote from: Rameses on September 02, 2008, 12:09:25 PM
You think a firestorm could encircle the planet in one minute?
+1, i think it would take atleast 5 minutes. lol not that it would matter, but hey maybe if i was with a reallly really really hot chick i could get one in before i die.
Hell ill settle for dying while having sex too. either way im happy. perfer zombies though.
Quote from: MikeZ on September 02, 2008, 09:32:34 AM
Won't Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck save us?
According to Robot Chicken it will be Harrison Ford and Arrasmith! [cheeky]
I doubt it would take long for the earth to be engulfed in fire storm if something that big hit it at thousands of miles per hour. Little rock in a pond sends ripples that take a while to reach the shore - that's a small impact or large earthquake. Toss a boulder in the lake at a million miles an hour and it wouldn't take very long for the wave to hit shore.
Why I am thinking about this? Dammit.
Here's a question for the philosophers - does irony still exist if humanity is instantly wiped out? Because it would be hilariously ironic if we are all panicking over non-threats like climate change only to have all life on earth obliterated the next day by a big ass space rock.
Quote from: triangleforge on September 02, 2008, 01:29:42 PM
Somehow, I always knew that the end of life on earth would have a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.
Hell yeah [thumbsup]
By definition, hypersonic is mach 5 or above (3800mph) The circumference of the Earth is about 24,900 miles at the equator. So, since the wave would be traveling in all directions at once, it would take no longer than 3-3.5 hours to completely engulph the Earth. That's IF the shockwave was taveling at mach 5, not any faster...
if i knew that was coming....
i'd have a hell of a lot of unprotected sex.
Was it just me or the meteorite looked like the deathstar a little.
I'd have to just stand there and face the wave of fire. To feel that split second of overwhelming power would be more awesome than any sex that could be had while hiding in a hole like a scared rabbit.
Quote from: lethe on September 02, 2008, 04:51:44 PM
I'd have to just stand there and face the wave of fire. To feel that split second of overwhelming power would be more awesome than any sex that could be had while hiding in a hole like a scared rabbit.
hey i didn't say i'd be hiding
Quote from: Ash on September 02, 2008, 05:03:00 PM
hey i didn't say i'd be hiding
You'd hide, you fearful little sissy. [cheeky]
pink floyd starts playing everywhere?
i would head towards the flash, isn't that what you should do?
Why does the big-ass space rock of doom ALWAYS have to land in the ocean? WTF? Can't it just hit land in one of these damn scenarios? The result wouldn't be any different.
BTW-I hope that shit lands right on top of me. That would be the ultimate bragging rights in the (non-religion-specific) afterlife.
You would burn up before it hit you, but it's likely to hit ocean since it covers 70% of the Earth...
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 08:04:08 AM
The good news is you won't know when it happens, because you'll be dead before you can blink.
Maybe the camera man would warn us, no?
[laugh]
Quote from: triangleforge on September 02, 2008, 01:29:42 PM
Somehow, I always knew that the end of life on earth would have a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.
[laugh]
Nothing that big would ever hit the planet.
It would burn up in the atmosphere, then burn up going through the pollution and then end up being the size of a chihuahua's head.
And it would still knock down Flanders bomb shelter.
Lets assume something real hits us, the guy said it has happened atleast 5 times. I know of the one in arizona, but that one just "killed big animals" it was pretty make the beast with two backsing big, but it wasnt 500km big.
but for arguments sake lets say the one in arizona comes again (which supposely ruined life on earth.) it hits earth....and it digs what, 1/2 mile into our crust.... where the hell does the wall of fire come from? its not like theres molten lava everywhere.and its not like theres enough lava to make a ring of fire that would burn everything in sight.
youd have to have enough molten magma to cover miles of ocean, evaporate it, hope that shit doenst rain back on your firery ass, and manage to make it toward land. if it hits china, america lives, and parts of europe since they will all be burned from a contious earthquake. if it hits america, the well, everyone else lives but us cause where dead smack in the middle of no where. make there will be huge tsunamis who knows.
what i do know is, i will be running an IV of viagra and going at it till i die.
great...... once Al gets a hold of this video..... we'll all be pay'n a meteorite tax.
when asked... "what will you do when the big one hits?", IZ states.... "I plan on make the beast with two backsing everything that moves"
when asked the same question, bp responds, "stand perfectly still"
Quote from: He Man on September 02, 2008, 06:25:14 PM
Lets assume something real hits us, the guy said it has happened atleast 5 times. I know of the one in arizona, but that one just "killed big animals" it was pretty make the beast with two backsing big, but it wasnt 500km big.
but for arguments sake lets say the one in arizona comes again (which supposely ruined life on earth.) it hits earth....and it digs what, 1/2 mile into our crust.... where the hell does the wall of fire come from? its not like theres molten lava everywhere.and its not like theres enough lava to make a ring of fire that would burn everything in sight.
youd have to have enough molten magma to cover miles of ocean, evaporate it, hope that shit doenst rain back on your firery ass, and manage to make it toward land. if it hits china, america lives, and parts of europe since they will all be burned from a contious earthquake. if it hits america, the well, everyone else lives but us cause where dead smack in the middle of no where. make there will be huge tsunamis who knows.
what i do know is, i will be running an IV of viagra and going at it till i die.
The one in AZ (Meteor Crater) was big, but nowhere near 500K big. The reason it killed the dinosaurs is because it kicked up enough dirt to block out the sun long enough to throw the world into a winter too cold to recover from...
hairspray and sixpack rings killed the dinos
Quote from: NAKID on September 02, 2008, 06:37:03 PM
The one in AZ (Meteor Crater) was big, but nowhere near 500K big. The reason it killed the dinosaurs is because it kicked up enough dirt to block out the sun long enough to throw the world into a winter too cold to recover from...
I thought that the one that landed just off the Yucatan Peninsula was responsible for offing the dinos?
Quote from: Ash on September 02, 2008, 04:30:58 PM
if i knew that was coming....
i'd have a hell of a lot of unprotected sex.
Speaking of irony, the irony here would be the big rock completely burning up in the atmosphere and then 3 weeks after that you get calls from like 18 women [laugh]
Quote from: He Man on September 02, 2008, 06:25:14 PM
but for arguments sake lets say the one in arizona comes again (which supposely ruined life on earth.) it hits earth....and it digs what, 1/2 mile into our crust.... where the hell does the wall of fire come from? its not like theres molten lava everywhere.and its not like theres enough lava to make a ring of fire that would burn everything in sight.
i would guess that it's the atmosphere itself igniting.
The wall of fire is caused by the friction of the two objects colliding at high speed.
Quote from: bobspapa on September 02, 2008, 06:26:22 PM
when asked... "what will you do when the big one hits?", IZ states.... "I plan on make the beast with two backsing everything that moves"
when asked the same question, bp responds, "stand perfectly still"
[coffee]
haahha...........arguing about this [clap]
It's teh interwebs, aren't we required to argue?
Quote from: NAKID on September 02, 2008, 08:00:18 PM
It's teh interwebs, aren't we required to argue?
why do we have to argue?
;D
Quote from: NeufUnSix on September 02, 2008, 04:03:06 PM
Why I am thinking about this? Dammit.
Here's a question for the philosophers - does irony still exist if humanity is instantly wiped out? Because it would be hilariously ironic if we are all panicking over non-threats like climate change only to have all life on earth obliterated the next day by a big ass space rock.
Irony lasts forever [thumbsup]
Quote from: Timmy Tucker on September 02, 2008, 06:57:30 PM
I thought that the one that landed just off the Yucatan Peninsula was responsible for offing the dinos?
Yap.. that was only a small one... about 16km in diameter. Crater is about 175km across. [thumbsup]
The "wall of fire" is just conservation of energy. All that massive kinetic energy has to go somewhere. Most of it goes into ignition. The wall part comes from conversion of momentum. It aint just gonna stop moving cuz the earth is in the way- it'll just go around us. Hence the "wall"...
I guess you have to think about how big this rock really is. We're talking like 300 miles long. That mean when it actually hits us
the other end is still way out in outer space. This rock is the size of the state of Washintonish. I watched the vid and thought the scale seemed
off until I thought more about it. It would be amazing to watch that make the beast with two backser come though.
i wonder if there would be enough time for tidal reactions prior to impact?
It would likely be flash boiling the ocean immediately before impact..
That is my favorite Pink Floyd album by far. ;D
It would only be cool to have the Floyd playing at the end of time if Roger was playing with them. ;D