The little specks go everywhere!

There goes that rotten Haley's comet
It makes me sick! I want to vomit.

/slightly obscure

They made an amusing rotoscope that I saw at the nickelodeon about that very event! They even had a barbershop quartet to sing along, although I must say some of those young men were looking a little under the weather. They should have taken some of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Nostrum - that's just the thing to put some pep back into oneself.

I love this badastronomy guy.

Jefferson Biatchmagnet: There goes that rotten Haley's comet
It makes me sick! I want to vomit.

/slightly obscure

Made your mouth turn green?

Yeah, but are you gettin' it?

Crud. The above pic. of Armageddon is courtesy of me. I was using my brother in-law's computer and accidentally used his account.

Comic Sans MS is serious science publication.

Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

smeag0l: Comic Sans MS is serious science publication.

Holy Haleakala!

/Science dies a little more every time a BA article is greenlit in place of a real one.

Myria: Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

ShamWowofDamocles: Myria: Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.


It could happen tomorrow!

If it doesn't happen, there's nothing to worry about.

If it does, there won't be anyone left to worry.

/Either way, no worries

ShamWowofDamocles: Myria: Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

Except of course for the fact that now a wickedly intelligent and creative animal has developed ways to detect and deflect them. I mean honestly, in a fair fight, a six ton piece of rock wouldn't stand a welk's chance in a supernova.

tinyarena: ShamWowofDamocles: Myria: Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

Except of course for the fact that now a wickedly intelligent and creative animal has developed ways to detect and deflect them. I mean honestly, in a fair fight, a six ton piece of rock wouldn't stand a welk's chance in a supernova.

The Bible calls this day "Armageddon" - the end of all things. And yet, for the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction. All of you praying with us need to know that everything that can be done to prevent this disaster is being called into service. The human thirst for excellence, knowledge; every step up the ladder of science; every adventurous reach into space; all of our combined modern technologies and imaginations; even the wars that we've fought have provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle. Through all of the chaos that is our history; through all of the wrongs and the discord; through all of the pain and suffering; through all of our times, there is one thing that has nourished our souls, and elevated our species above its origins, and that is our courage.

tinyarena: ShamWowofDamocles: Myria: Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

Except of course for the fact that now a wickedly intelligent and creative animal has developed ways to detect and deflect them. I mean honestly, in a fair fight, a six ton piece of rock wouldn't stand a welk's chance in a supernova.

Are you kidding me?? We cant even keep the farking near earth orbit space station supplied, thanks to the farking idiots in charge of the budgets. A scientists would tell these farkers "WE need to spend 5 billion now to deflect it to keep it from hitting us in 60 years, and these farkers would put it off until 6 months before it hit, because kinetic impact extinctions are just a theory and jeebus will protect us."

tinyarena

Except of course for the fact that now a wickedly intelligent and creative animal has developed ways to detect and deflect them. I mean honestly, in a fair fight, a six ton piece of rock wouldn't stand a welk's chance in a supernova.



That dude is yelling "COME GIT SOME", but the rock totally chickens out in front of everybody and runs back into space like a punk rather than start a fight with humanity.

/Space rocks? Yeah right. More like space wussies.

Yeah, but one almost hit us in 1984 (new window)

ShamWowofDamocles: Myria: Life on Earth has only been capable of contemplating an astronomical extinction event for 1,000 years at most. The last extinction event from above was 65,000,000 years ago, and they appear to be entirely random.

Just because we can understand them does not make them any more or less likely, so why are we worried so much?

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

So, should I pay my cable bill this month, or not?

enry: Yeah, but are you gettin' it?

Yes, armageddon it.

FrancoFile: They should have taken some of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Nostrum - that's just the thing to put some pep back into oneself.

I am led to believe she has medicinal compounds that are most efficacious in every case.

Chagrin: enry: Yeah, but are you gettin' it?

Yes, armageddon it.

Ooh, really gettin' it?

Streetlight yet?

Sargun: I love this badastronomy guy.

Me too. I don't understand a 3rd of what he babbles on about, but he sure is smert.

Hiro Nakamura: Yeah, because god forbid someone makes a subject more accessible to the general population.

Carl Sagan made astronomy more accessible; BA Wamplerizes it.

Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: Hiro Nakamura: Yeah, because god forbid someone makes a subject more accessible to the general population.

Carl Sagan made astronomy more accessible; BA Wamplerizes it.

His style sets me off. Way too much of trying to cheerlead how amazing splendiforously neato cool this picture is.

He ends up making it less accessible because half of my brain is trying to puzzle out what the hell the point of the article is.

It's not dumbed down, but it's certainly not in a format designed for the science interested general public. Simplification is ok, but his audience isn't 6yr olds with add.