Actually guys, this leads to one of those cool questions:
What EXACTLY would you do if - just for the sake of argument/drama - we knew an asteroid was going to hit in, say, 16 days and life as we know it is over?
asteroid shasteroid in 2019 we'll have Apple g8s!!!!
this is depressing...I really hope that we can do something about this...cause if not....that would be bad.
but at the same time its probably just going to veer off course or run into mars like all hte otehr asteroids
well....I'm sure by 2019 I will have accomplished most of my goals....and will be a multi billionaire so I can just send myself(along with my trusted right hand men and my legions of sexy females) to the moon where we will inbreed cause of lack of better planning
<strong>Actually guys, this leads to one of those cool questions:
What EXACTLY would you do if - just for the sake of argument/drama - we knew an asteroid was going to hit in, say, 16 days and life as we know it is over?
Just over two weeks.
What would you do? Seriously?</strong><hr></blockquote>
cry.
then travel to the homes of various girls I've left hanging....then I'd probably play alot of bass and go hiking.
But if Microsoft keeps on giving new releases wvery 2 years ... and seen how they have developed <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> xp <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> do you really think we have to wait till 2019??
An other point.. i will in a couple of years be 30 and generally i don't see a lot of life over 30...
First of all, the asteroid is only big enough to affect a continent. It's about 2km in diameter and travelling at 57km/s if I recall correctly. And from the orbit shown in the diagrams that NASA has published this asteroid will be awfully close to hitting Venus on a few occasions between now and then. The orbit of this asteroid also is very close to earth orbit, so if it doesn't hit in 2019, might it hit at another point in the future, though?
HOw about making a boring overcommercial super- Hollywood movie about the asteroid?
Like those dozens of films in the 80s.. where a white, 10 years old kid (male!!) of the USA .. and something like amiga or commodore 64 were enough to save the whole planet??
I was kid but all those movies were too ridiculous...
Now as a back to 80s theme.. a good parody of those films would probably sell <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> a looot <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
i'm 33 too... don't know if I have a life between my work and AppleInsider
but if we have only 16 days left, I will go in a place with my little girl, my wife, the beach, the sun and of course the last Apple Thing with a broadband connection to the net
Take all my money out of my 401k, mfunds, etc. and use it to buy: a second fridge; loads of expensive wine, meats, cheeses, breads and confectionaries; a slip-n-slide; one more really good book; 14 new CDs; plane tickets for my best friend and his woman; and two big-ass shotguns with plenty of ammo.
Then I'd follow this regimen:
1. WAKE, SHOWER, DRESS, GREET FRIENDS
2. READ A CHAPTER
3. EAT LIKE ROYALTY WHILE LISTENING TO NEW CD
4. SHOOT A LOOTER IN THE ASS
5. MAKE LOVE TO WOMAN
6. EAT LIKE ROYALTY SOME MORE
7. EVERYONE GETS NEKKID AND SLIP-N-SLIDES ACROSS THE LAWN
8. PLAY CROQUET WITH NOTHING BUT A PAIR OF SANDALS ON
Oh that oor wordly leaders had but familiarised themsels wi' the maist eloquent spinechillers fae the pen o' the supremely erstwhile Montague R James. As in the story whaur the unfortunately inquistive professor finds the ancient whistle and blows it (Quis est iste qui venit) we too hae surely summoned oor ain destruction from infinite distance by oor own curiosity. Dig too deep; search too far; pry intae too mony dark corners and the thing that we fear maist will surely leap oot and blooter oor coupons. By searching for dangerous asteroids we hae surely stirred some cosmotic principle set in place tae deter the overly curious and brought aboot the very circumstances which we had hoped tae avoid. Leave well alone!
Oh that oor wordly leaders had but familiarised themsels wi' the maist eloquent spinechillers fae the pen o' the supremely erstwhile Montague R James. As in the story whaur the unfortunately inquistive professor finds the ancient whistle and blows it (Quis est iste qui venit) we too hae surely summoned oor ain destruction from infinite distance by oor own curiosity. Dig too deep; search too far; pry intae too mony dark corners and the thing that we fear maist will surely leap oot and blooter oor coupons. By searching for dangerous asteroids we hae surely stirred some cosmotic principle set in place tae deter the overly curious and brought aboot the very circumstances which we had hoped tae avoid. Leave well alone!</strong><hr></blockquote>
In short : the best way to make suceed prophety is to try to avoid them
By the way, I was less-than-half-serious with my exhaustive list above. I have no idea what I would do - probably gather family and friends as best I could and make the best of it...but you have to admit my other plan has its merits.
Don't worry SMOTI, just because we fear it doesn't mean it'll happen. It'll happen regardless; sometimes statistics don't lie! We're toast - just a question of when. Would you like some rasberry jam with that?
people, its only 2 km wide. if, and the odds are something like 1 in 250,000, it does happen to hit earth, the odds that it would hit a land mass are 1 in 3. and even then, the odds that it would hit any of you in particular, are even smaller. being only 2 km, the most it would do is mess up a continent. it wouldnt destroy the earth. so stop talking like the worlds gonna end. at the worst, it would destroy a couple countries, and the spot it will hit will be known beforehand w/ enuff time to move away.
OMG. Are you serious? JUST mess up a continent? Like the asteroid that hit the Yucatan and wiped out the dinosaurs? An asteroid of this size would put us in an ice age that would last thousands of years. Few humans would survive. Most life on Earth would die.
This is what happens if an asteroid hit the Earth. Granted this explains a 10km asteroid but 2 km is nothing to sneeze at, just imagine one fifth of the damage. Nearly as bad.
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What EXACTLY would you do if - just for the sake of argument/drama - we knew an asteroid was going to hit in, say, 16 days and life as we know it is over?
Just over two weeks.
What would you do? Seriously?
this is depressing...I really hope that we can do something about this...cause if not....that would be bad.
but at the same time its probably just going to veer off course or run into mars like all hte otehr asteroids
well....I'm sure by 2019 I will have accomplished most of my goals....and will be a multi billionaire so I can just send myself(along with my trusted right hand men and my legions of sexy females) to the moon where we will inbreed cause of lack of better planning
<strong>Actually guys, this leads to one of those cool questions:
What EXACTLY would you do if - just for the sake of argument/drama - we knew an asteroid was going to hit in, say, 16 days and life as we know it is over?
Just over two weeks.
What would you do? Seriously?</strong><hr></blockquote>
cry.
then travel to the homes of various girls I've left hanging....then I'd probably play alot of bass and go hiking.
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Hey, an asteroid of these size will destroy entirely the earth. :eek: </strong><hr></blockquote>
international relations at their best
no offense
But if Microsoft keeps on giving new releases wvery 2 years ... and seen how they have developed <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> xp <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> do you really think we have to wait till 2019??
An other point.. i will in a couple of years be 30 and generally i don't see a lot of life over 30...
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>
An other point.. i will in a couple of years be 30 and generally i don't see a lot of life over 30...
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
If I had 16 days to live? Work my ass of to finish Baldur's Gate!
Seriously, it's hard to say.
Quit the job I hate, obviously.
Tell a girl I broke up with 11 years ago that I've always regretted it and have never been as happy since.
Rethink my atheism?
Play a lot of basketball.
Dang, I can't think of any grandiose adventure I want to go on. I guess I'd try to appreciate the little things as much as I could.
Jeff
Like those dozens of films in the 80s.. where a white, 10 years old kid (male!!) of the USA .. and something like amiga or commodore 64 were enough to save the whole planet??
I was kid but all those movies were too ridiculous...
Now as a back to 80s theme.. a good parody of those films would probably sell <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> a looot <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>(...) An other point.. i will in a couple of years be 30 and generally i don't see a lot of life over 30...
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
i thought so, too!
but now i'm 33 and i'm still living.
it is a very odd feeling - but you get used to it.
but if we have only 16 days left, I will go in a place with my little girl, my wife, the beach, the sun and of course the last Apple Thing with a broadband connection to the net
Then I'd follow this regimen:
1. WAKE, SHOWER, DRESS, GREET FRIENDS
2. READ A CHAPTER
3. EAT LIKE ROYALTY WHILE LISTENING TO NEW CD
4. SHOOT A LOOTER IN THE ASS
5. MAKE LOVE TO WOMAN
6. EAT LIKE ROYALTY SOME MORE
7. EVERYONE GETS NEKKID AND SLIP-N-SLIDES ACROSS THE LAWN
8. PLAY CROQUET WITH NOTHING BUT A PAIR OF SANDALS ON
9. GO INSIDE AND GET MORE LOVIN
10. EAT LIKE ROYALTY AGAIN
11. POOP, SHOWER, SLEEP FOR A FEW HOURS
12. REPEAT AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE
Oh that oor wordly leaders had but familiarised themsels wi' the maist eloquent spinechillers fae the pen o' the supremely erstwhile Montague R James. As in the story whaur the unfortunately inquistive professor finds the ancient whistle and blows it (Quis est iste qui venit) we too hae surely summoned oor ain destruction from infinite distance by oor own curiosity. Dig too deep; search too far; pry intae too mony dark corners and the thing that we fear maist will surely leap oot and blooter oor coupons. By searching for dangerous asteroids we hae surely stirred some cosmotic principle set in place tae deter the overly curious and brought aboot the very circumstances which we had hoped tae avoid. Leave well alone!
<strong>Brothers! The End is Nigh.
Oh that oor wordly leaders had but familiarised themsels wi' the maist eloquent spinechillers fae the pen o' the supremely erstwhile Montague R James. As in the story whaur the unfortunately inquistive professor finds the ancient whistle and blows it (Quis est iste qui venit) we too hae surely summoned oor ain destruction from infinite distance by oor own curiosity. Dig too deep; search too far; pry intae too mony dark corners and the thing that we fear maist will surely leap oot and blooter oor coupons. By searching for dangerous asteroids we hae surely stirred some cosmotic principle set in place tae deter the overly curious and brought aboot the very circumstances which we had hoped tae avoid. Leave well alone!</strong><hr></blockquote>
In short : the best way to make suceed prophety is to try to avoid them
Don't worry SMOTI, just because we fear it doesn't mean it'll happen. It'll happen regardless; sometimes statistics don't lie! We're toast - just a question of when. Would you like some rasberry jam with that?
<a href="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/blast/asteroid_hyp.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/blast/asteroid_hyp.htm</a>;