chickyraptor is my hero!

Lozzobear - you are confusing NSW with Queensland (gold coast), that place is the fake tit capital of Aus. Syd is more Botox.

Tin-foil hats!
Getcher tin-foil hats here!

On another note, we (inhabitants of the northern hemisphere) won't see the dust cloud/meteor strikes because they're coming from the south.
Only the southern hemisphere will be able to see it coming. That's why we don't see constellations like The Southern Cross, either.

Man, it's like being shot in the back.

House-size meteorite, NSFNSW

2004-06-17 11:38:14 PM El_Swino
More likely it was the size of a golf ball. It's tough getting the right sense of scale in the night sky.

Exactly what I was thinking. Didn't scientists say the whole earth would die if an asteroid the size of a house hit the earth because of some gigantic dust cloud? So how can this one do so little dammage nobody can even find where it landed? lol

I could've sworn they also mentioned the explotion would be "a thousand times the size of an atomic bomb!" I think an atomic-like blast would be hard to miss!

Could it be scientists have been exagerating their numbers to get more funding?

Your Inputs:

Distance from Impact: 30.00 km = 18.63 miles

Projectile Diameter: 15.00 m = 49.20 ft = 0.01 miles

Projectile Density: 1500 kg/m3

Impact Velocity: 17.00 km/s = 10.56 miles/s

Impact Angle: 47 degrees

Target Density: 1500 kg/m3

Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil

Major Global Changes:

The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and remains intact.

The impact does not make a noticeable change in the Earth's rotation period or the tilt of its axis.

The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.
Energy:

3.83 x 1014 Joules = 0.92 x 10-1 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 17.4 years

Crater Size:

What does this mean?
Transient Crater Diameter: 380 m = 1248 ft
Final Crater Diameter: 594 m = 1947 ft
The crater formed is a simple crater

Thermal Radiation:
What does this mean?
Time for maximum radiation: 0.01 seconds after impact

Visible fireball radius: 0.1 km = 0.0 miles

The fireball appears 0.6 times larger than the sun

Thermal Exposure: 8.25 Joules/m

Duration of Irradiation: 0 seconds

Radiant flux (relative to the sun): 0.0
Seismic Effects:
What does this mean?
The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 6.0 seconds.

Richter Scale Magnitude: 3.9

Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 30 km:

III. Felt indoors. Hanging objects swing. Vibration like passing of light trucks. Duration estimated. may not be recognized as an earthquake.

IV. Hanging objects swing. Vibration like passing of heavy trucks; or sensation of a jolt like a heavy ball striking the walls. Standing motor cars rock. Windows, dishes, doors rattle. Glasses clink. Crockery clashes. In the upper range of IV wooden walls and frame creak.

Ejecta:
What does this mean?
Most ejecta is blocked by Earth's atmosphere
Air Blast:
What does this mean?
The air blast will arrive at approximately 100.0 seconds.
Peak Overpressure: 1624.7 Pa = 0.0162 bars = 0.2307 psi
Max wind velocity: 3.5 m/s = 7.7 mph
Sound Intensity: 64 dB (Loud as heavy traffic)

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
I measured my house and entered in the stock details for a porous rock meteorite. Its fun to see how much damage meteorite of various sizes will do to the Earth. I think this guy was drunk, I didn't feel anything, and I should have.

Lavos wanted for questioning.

/Chrono Trigger

[NEWSFLASH!] Scientists don't know shyt......

I'm so glad Dick Cheney inspired me to build that bunker.

I love you, man.

Peace out

The dipshet artists that are drawing the photos like the ones posted by Bill_Wick's_Friend and Zyklon B. Goode need to get a clue and learn that the thickness of the Earth's atmosphere in relation to the Earth is like an apple peel to an apple. The dumbass meteor things wouldn't have flaming trails above the outer atmosphere, as those pictures (especially the second one) depict.

2004-06-18 02:19:10 AM Richard_Gozinya

Don't be an ass. Really. If you're not prepared for the coming days that's your fault.

We don't need pseudoscientists chiming in here. Leave it to those who know.

Those drawings look right on.

Hey! It's going to be only 0.011 AU away!
That's got to be like really close, man.
Cause I took math n shiat and I know that decimals are, like, pretty small.

It's still on a cool site, so thanks anyway.

It was obviously not the size of a house at all. I've seen a meteor fall and there is absolutely no way of judging the size of the object. Of course, a house-size object would have an enormous impact, but this is just the beginning.

And Aussie Bloke came forward and made a disclaimer. Of course he did. And now he's "living on a farm" or something. I bet he is. I'm sure his cerebellum is entirely intact too.

Wake up people.

Okay, this is what, the fourth meteorite in the last two weeks?

Without getting tin-foil-y here, what's the expected frequency of meteors of this size? I hardly remember hearing about one let alone four in two weeks.

And almost the entire US Navy -- except ships in dry dock --is at sea. And so are the Russian and Chinese navies?

This guy is looking more believable with each impact (though he himself now discounts a catastrophic meteor strike): Okay, this is what, the fourth meteorite in the last two weeks?

Without getting tin-foilly here, what's the expected frequency of meteors of this size? I hardly remember hearing about one let alone four in two weeks.

And almost the entire US Navy -- except ships in dry dock --is at sea. And so are the Russian and Chinese navies?

This guy is looking more believable with each impact (though he himself now discounts a catastrophic meteor strike): http://www.urbansurvival.com/nl20040604.htm

someone saw something. and there's no evidence.

they should think twice before publishing crap like that.

i live in Australia.

mypetgoat

Wake up and realize that it's a hoax:

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Aussie_Bloke.htm

even though this website has a large amount of tinfoilhattery in and of itself, Aussie Bloke is a fake.

no crater?

/me calls bullshiat

putnam2k2

On September 30, 4179 Toutatis will be 0.0106 AU from Earth, a distance of roughly 985800 miles.

Under a million miles from a giant chunk of rock is close enough for me.

- This guy wants a word, Rat.

we're all gonna die

/fact

Erm, this guy.
©±©

Other "meteorites" hit in London, Moscow, New York, and Brazil. Authorities have no comment. Unconfirmed reports of "tripod machines" using death rays.
Stay tuned to local stations for further news....

I love how even something as mundane as this meteor (which didnt kill any dinosaurs so i know im going out on a limb here, saying it's mundane) has to be debunked ad nauseum.
Most likely wasn't house sized... fair enough, though it didn't really need to be said so many times.
But drunk? Why do some people insist everything in the sky is a hallucination?

AngryAngy

In the absence of political or religious flamewars, farkers have to seize something to argue over.

Now if only the science nuts would wake up and start debating the real reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs, we'd really see something. Just wait for someone to mention the Tunguska blast and the heat'll start rising.

/bored

First, I cant beleive there was no joke about the wicked wich of the west or something.

Second, who is this Aussie Bloke guy. Can anyone give me the straight dope on him? Was this a prediction of his?

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

Acoording to this impact calculator ( what you feel at 1000km away):

Transient Crater Diameter: 605 m = 1983 ft
Final Crater Diameter: 943 m = 3093 ft

The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 200.0 seconds.
Richter Scale Magnitude: 4.5

The air blast will arrive at approximately 3333.3 seconds.
Peak Overpressure: 91.0 Pa = 0.0009 bars = 0.0129 psi
Max wind velocity: 0.2 m/s = 0.4 mph
Sound Intensity: 39 dB (Easily Heard)

2004-06-18 01:25:14 AM putnam2k2

Even the scientist who "Aussie Bloke" claims to be came forward in Australian Media just to say he had nothing to do with the hoax. He doesn't even do astronomy anymore; he has some kind of farm.

You FOOL, that's just what they WANT us to think!

/sarcasm
/will be in the Alps on June 27-28. Just a coincidence, but in case the guy is right, have a nice tidal wave.

tre_bumpn

Predator.

Danny Boy.

They aren't going to tell us about anything.
It would interfere with their survival plans.
One morning, we'll all wake up and look around and go,
"Hey! Where are all the astronomers?"
and then whoomp! that will be that.

I'm stockpiling pocket protectors and slide-rules.
Those things will be better than gold.
It's good to have a plan.

2004-06-18 02:46:56 AM SamManifesto

Please brother: he who has an ear, let him hear. Dick Cheney (I can't tell you how I came to correspond with that great and generous man, I'd have to kill you!) let me in on this secret knowledge several years ago. At that time I began preparations.

Needless to say I'm relieved it is finally coming to pass. As you can imagine, my neighbours think I'm a right loon. But we'll see who's loony.

Look, there's still room left in my bunker. The only requirement for farkers is that each male must bring his weight in gold and four attractive females, only one of which may be a lesbian. (Just to make it like Sartre's No Exit, but not too much like Sartre's No Exit.)

PTL!

petgoat, I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic.

and Arjibuh Aussie Bloke is your garden variety internet doom-and-gloom-monger. As someone else has said, he's taken (or rather took, during may) advantage of a couple of coincidences: a meteor shower, navy drills and some stock prices and began scarin'.

what people who are still linking to him should realize is #1. the real doctor that he is impersonating has said he doesn't do astronomy anymore and has no idea what the hoax is about.

#2. that what he predicted ("massive light shows" by june 10th) has already come and pass, with no event. He stopped posting on may 29th...just in time for him to not be around when his "theories" prove to be bunk.

I call shenanigans. If it were a house-sized meteorite (let's say 20 meters in diameter) it would have done an enormous amount of damage even if it exploded before it hit the ground.

For comparison, the Tunguska Event that occurred in Siberia in 1908 was the result of a comet fragment 60 meters across exploding 5 miles above the ground. The explosion was estimated at between 15 and 40 megatons of TNT and it flattened nearly 1000 square miles of forest. Similarly, the meteor that formed Barrington Crater in Arizona is estimated to have been 50 meters across and estimates for the impact range anywhere from 3.5 to 20 megatons.

Clearly, a 20-meter meteor would unleash an enormous amount of energy and there would be no doubt that something big happened.

Much more likely the size of a house cat.

El_Swino: good call. Scientists estimate that the Barringer metor crater was formed by an object the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.

Something the size of a house would have decimated a large number of wallabys.

/calling BS also

morans, read the above posts - you're just repeating each other! be nice! :)

Okay, who wants to explain the "Hot fudge sunday" concept?

/recommended reading: Lucifers Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

0.011AU=4.27x the distance between the earth and the moon. Airball!

I like the picture beside it, it looks like an asteroid the size of Australia is slamming into...Australia. :P

All you people mentioning Aussie Bloke, shame on you. This crap has set off such an uproar on sites such as www.abovetopsecret.com it's rediculous. People will always claim the end of the world is coming tomorrow. Trust me, don't get sucked into that soap opera, it's not worth it.

I love the artist's impression - a meteorite the size of (approximately) the moon striking the earth. Of course we all know it broke up upon entering the atmosphere and was no larger than a chihuahua's head by the time it struck the earth.

Aussie Bloke?

Grovers Mill NJ? (War of the Worlds)

Call Buckaroo! They've hypnotised Aussie Bloke so at first he says we were going to get hit by meteors and then when they are finished with him he says no its just a hoax.

I'm assempling a strike team right now and we're going to check out Yoyodyne again to make sure the lectroids havne't come back.

To all the people who keep saying, "oh isnt it crazy that we've had so many of these things in the news and more often and blah blah blah..."

Well its just like the shark attacks a few years back. There were actually fewer shark attacks than normal. It's just what the media feeds to the ignorant public. Wake UP!

What's with all these meteorites falling around us?

2004-06-18 08:21:30 AM SamManifesto
petgoat, I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic.

This is no time for sarcasm.

Tonight at 1900 hours EST I will be locking the doors.

So far it's me, my dog Checkers and Mrs. Beausoleil from down the street (she's pushing 60 and is nuttier than a fruitcake but at least I'll be getting something. Better stock up on the KY.

The offer stands, but time is short friends.

A side note on he whole Aussie Bloke thing...

Just because it's an admitted hoax to see how us Internet rubes would react to a global end of life prediction doesn't mean that the story is completely without merit.

Examples:

1898: "Futility", a novel by Thomas Morgan is published in the U.S. It describes the largest ocean going vessel ever built, called the "Titan". It hits an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic in April and sinks, with most of its passengers and crew killed.

4/15/1912 - The Titanic sinks in almost identical circumstances.

1978 - "The Turner Diaries", a novel by Andrew McDonald (actually William Pierce, but I digress), describes a fertilizer bomb attack on the FBI building in Washington D.C.

1995 - Timothy McVeigh launches an almost identical attack on the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

There's a theory out there that says once ideas are released into the global consciousness their end results become inevitable. True or not? I don't know. But it's eerie anyways...

Lets take a semi-serious vote.... Who here would welcome an lifestyle-shattering meteor impact? Not one that would wipe us out, but one that would make us have to squander in the apocolypse.

/Lavos rocks