300m-wide asteroid high chance of hitting earth...
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Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide (300metre-wide) asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250, from a 1-in-15,000 chance predicted last December.
But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids.
A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT or 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Objects this size are thought to hit Earth about once every 1,000 years, and, according to recent estimates, the risk of dying from a renegade space rock is comparable to the hazards posed by tornadoes and snakebites. -
ya ya ya
din i hear before someone say the world will end in 1933 or something? -
It is like The Day After Tomorrow...
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hahahaahah now scientists and astronomers are actually predicting the path of the asteroid, unlike those c0ck-talkers of the past and i didnt say it'll definitely hit did i? a 1 in 6500 chance...hmm.Originally posted by FireIce:ya ya ya
din i hear before someone say the world will end in 1933 or something?
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quick...sign ur will....give me all ur $$$Originally posted by SixSentinels:Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide (300metre-wide) asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250, from a 1-in-15,000 chance predicted last December.
But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids.
A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT or 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Objects this size are thought to hit Earth about once every 1,000 years, and, according to recent estimates, the risk of dying from a renegade space rock is comparable to the hazards posed by tornadoes and snakebites. -
ok... yeah...
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Theres one destined for 2019, we wait for that one first k?
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if it hits singapore..
will we become the next atlantis? -
we'll all be fried.Originally posted by Ito_^:if it hits singapore..
will we become the next atlantis? -
oh no....i won't want to see something hit singapore......ewwwkss..........being smashed with something that large from outerspace......plus once it enters the atmosphere it might become a flaming fireball......ewwwksss....imagine being fried at the same time..........my god......
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god is not yours, pls share.Originally posted by gohkatkat:oh no....i won't want to see something hit singapore......ewwwkss..........being smashed with something that large from outerspace......plus once it enters the atmosphere it might become a flaming fireball......ewwwksss....imagine being fried at the same time..........my god...... -
i bet god cant beat the asteroid, he'll get squashedOriginally posted by ditzy:god is not yours, pls share. -
There are people who respect your views, so please respect others'.Originally posted by SixSentinels:i bet god cant beat the asteroid, he'll get squashed
God once said that it is not the end of the world unless he says so...so you guys can speculate and research and detect for all I care; ultimately it is up to the Almighty to decide...
Also, The book of Revelations has parts on the stars falling down...
"...and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind."
-Revelations 6:13
Anyway, let's just not worry about it. When it is time to die, we will die. That is called fate.
Actually, I prefer to be fried and obliterated in an instant than to be tormented in a World War III. -
good way to die... will have alot of friends and family to accompany u in heaven/hell
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Every one thousand years....
When did the last dinosaur died? -
if it has to come, come sooner.
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What you've written is all nonsense unless you can prove God is real. Anyway, I hate the idea of anyone controlling my life, so i don't believe in fate...Originally posted by gr2012:There are people who respect your views, so please respect others'.
God once said that it is not the end of the world unless he says so...so you guys can speculate and research and detect for all I care; ultimately it is up to the Almighty to decide...
Also, The book of Revelations has parts on the stars falling down...
"...and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind."
-Revelations 6:13
Anyway, let's just not worry about it. When it is time to die, we will die. That is called fate.
Actually, I prefer to be fried and obliterated in an instant than to be tormented in a World War III. -
do u know astral travel?Originally posted by SixSentinels:What you've written is all nonsense unless you can prove God is real. Anyway, I hate the idea of anyone controlling my life, so i don't believe in fate...
nostradamus said 1999Originally posted by SixSentinels:ya ya ya
din i hear before someone say the world will end in 1933 or something?
what? oh yeah, we're dead already
ya, i think they should line up and wait for their turn to comeOriginally posted by ditzy:Theres one destined for 2019, we wait for that one first k? [/b] -
You let scientists control you.Originally posted by SixSentinels:What you've written is all nonsense unless you can prove God is real. Anyway, I hate the idea of anyone controlling my life, so i don't believe in fate... -
yr 2000, where computer go haywired!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i suppose there's a 1 in 60,000+ chance or so that some undetected asteroid will hit earth and before we know it we all get burnt
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we're like dinosaurs now, dominating the earth eversince humanity is founded. then this unlucky thing is that new lifeforms will come out after every mass-extinction. it'll come, but we won't know how exact it'll be.
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Not going to happenOriginally posted by SixSentinels:Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide (300metre-wide) asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250, from a 1-in-15,000 chance predicted last December.
But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids.
A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT or 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Objects this size are thought to hit Earth about once every 1,000 years, and, according to recent estimates, the risk of dying from a renegade space rock is comparable to the hazards posed by tornadoes and snakebites.
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sources?
i oso can say nxt mth we're gonna die...
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Definitely not.Originally posted by SixSentinels:Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide (300metre-wide) asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250, from a 1-in-15,000 chance predicted last December.
But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids.
A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT or 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Objects this size are thought to hit Earth about once every 1,000 years, and, according to recent estimates, the risk of dying from a renegade space rock is comparable to the hazards posed by tornadoes and snakebites.