LAST Sunday? Why aren't there a couple of shuttles up there right now, filled with oilmen?

farking yawn

fisker: farking yawn

You sound like my wife.

RayD8: fisker: farking yawn

You sound like my wife.

you look like my wife

fisker: farking yawn

Do you suppose somebody had that in mind when they set up the International Asteroid Warning Network?

GAT_00: OK, who the hell found Tim Hamner?

/asteroids, not comets, but still

They haven't found Brown yet, so we're still good ;)

MoonPirate: Its the third, massive, one with the decaying orbit, that they missed, that I'm worried about.

If they don't miss it, you'll be less worried? It's not as if there's anything that we'll be able to do about it either way.

I'll be in my bunker.

Oldiron_79: I'll be in my bunker.

Dude, go take a cold shower or something and go back to your half of the bunker. Leave me alone.

GAT_00: OK, who the hell found Tim Hamner?

/asteroids, not comets, but still



Hot Fudge Wednesday?

It's always a biatch when these things pass.

Either I die, or I go on my kill spree, or I go to work as usual. I'm good regardless.

MoonPirate: Its the third, massive, one with the decaying orbit, that they missed, that I'm worried about.

Ok Captain Kirk.

So what. Neither of these asteroids is large enough to do any significant damage to much of anything. They'd both airburst into a shower of smaller particles, and those that didn't burn up in the atmosphere would make a nice little crater field somewhere, most likely, the ocean.

You might hear a cool "boom" if you were within five miles of the thing, and you could probably fly a kite in the air blast when it hit. Other than that, anyone in a panic over these things watches too much television.

My Great-grandfather survived the Tunguska event in an outhouse, so I'm really getting a kick...

Anyone in a panic over these things lives near a fault line.

Summon the S.S. TRIANGLE.

So this is it. We're going to die.


/Any nearby Vogon constructor vessel I can hitch a ride on?

Does insurance on a house cover it if it is hit by a meteor? Or, are they complete asteroids about it?

Hmm. Two asteriods relatively close together close to intersecting the Earth and Moon, and one between half to a third the size of the other?

Farking rocket stages -- how do they work?

Mr. Potatoass: My Great-grandfather survived the Tunguska event in an outhouse, so I'm really getting a kick...

You're a dirty lying liar. Why would you make up a lie like that?

How Does That Taste: Mr. Potatoass: My Great-grandfather survived the Tunguska event in an outhouse, so I'm really getting a kick...

You're a dirty lying liar. Why would you make up a lie like that?

He was in Idaho at the time, dickhead.

TheMega: Does insurance on a house cover it if it is hit by a meteor? Or, are they complete asteroids about it?

Ummm unless your house is floating through earth's atmosphere, meteor insurance wouldn't do any good. You would need meteorite insurance because that's what you call a meteor that survives long enough to impact earth.

T-Luv: TheMega: Does insurance on a house cover it if it is hit by a meteor? Or, are they complete asteroids about it?

Ummm unless your house is floating through earth's atmosphere, meteor insurance wouldn't do any good. You would need meteorite insurance because that's what you call a meteor that survives long enough to impact earth.

tell these guys that

It's more of a biatch when they don't.

ringo2: Anyone in a panic over these things lives near a fault line.

The net result to planet Earth is a short shower of rocks, a bit of noise about as loud as your average Friday traffic jam, and a warm breeze. Earth gets hit by one of this size about once a year, and yet, here we all are. The one that hit Tunguska was tens of meters in size. These things are 10 meters at most. The impact assessments are standard calculations.

We could be wiped out in an instant by a cosmic event, and we still waste our time fighting each other instead of working together to figure out how to preserve the species.

Won't somebody please think of the dinosaurs

Notabunny: Won't somebody please think of the dinosaurs

fark the boomers and their endless entitlements.

MorePeasPlease: GAT_00: OK, who the hell found Tim Hamner?

/asteroids, not comets, but still



Hot Fudge Wednesday?

Hot fudge sundae, which falls on a tuesdae this week.

/got my copies of "the way things work" I and II and a box of ziplocs

If I have time to panic, then damnit, I will panic.

The site is florida today, so its presumable that the timezone is eastern, however I find it silly that so many stories are written for consumption on the web and they do not include a timezone when writing such articles.

eggrolls: The biggest of the two is less than half the size of the one that created Meteor Crater in Arizona. If it's high density nickel iron, you might get a a crater 200 feet deep, 2000 feet across. At best. Basically, it could kill the local mall or office park, and that's about it.

When Billy Bob starts saying "It's the size of Texas", THEN wake me up.

You do realize that the impact would have carryover energy in a radius much larger than the impact crater, right? 200 feet deep, 2000 feet across? Yeah, that would blow up numerous city blocks.


Anyway.... does anyone know the timezones the article is referencing? 5:12 am doesn't tell me much.

Not concerned

Hot Fudge Wednesdae.

/Where is the darn Lucifer's Hammer movie? Ringworld? Anyone? Anyone?

Is it weird that they are arriving exactly 2 years, 3 months and 13 days prior to Dec 21 2012? Now, get this: add 2+3+1+3 you get 9 right? Now add 12+21+2012 together you get 11 right? 9 and 11. 9/11. OMG. You guys... I think something big is going to happen on 9/11.

yarnothuntin: Is it weird that they are arriving exactly 2 years, 3 months and 13 days prior to Dec 21 2012? Now, get this: add 2+3+1+3 you get 9 right? Now add 12+21+2012 together you get 11 right? 9 and 11. 9/11. OMG. You guys... I think something big is going to happen on 9/11.



Yes, something will happen on 9/11.

trixter_nl: The site is florida today, so its presumable that the timezone is eastern, however I find it silly that so many stories are written for consumption on the web and they do not include a timezone when writing such articles.

This. I was wondering that myself.