justcorbly commented on 'Not with a whimper'
Book your departure flights early. I'm curious if there's evidence we've been hit six times by asteroids as large as that pictured in the clip, i.e., 500 km. The Chicxulub impact was by an asteroid or...
View ArticleJim Langer commented on 'Not with a whimper'
Cheery. Sobering. In the immortal last written words of Vincent van Gogh---"What's the use?"
View ArticleJim Langer commented on 'Not with a whimper'
"NASA estimates that there are 100,000 asteroids orbiting dangerously close to Earth right now that are big enough to cause a problem, and the agency is only tracking 4,000 of them. We may need to...
View Articlejustcorbly commented on 'Not with a whimper'
It's not the asteroids we know about that should worry us. We can plot the orbits of the known asteroids. A very few come pretty close, but unless something disturbs their orbits, they'll continue...
View ArticleJohn Tasker commented on 'Not with a whimper'
Perspective: A 10 KM asteroid that hit the earth, discounting for the point that it would begin to shatter as it entered the atmosphere, at the very point of touching, it would be about as high as Mt....
View Articleliv commented on 'Not with a whimper'
I volunteer to go to space and blow it up with Bruce Willis & Ben Afleck
View ArticleKlingons Around Uranus commented on 'Not with a whimper'
I'm sure that after the asteroid hits, there will at least be 5 to 10 minutes left for bloggers in Greensboro to debate about who they should blame for this disaster. They will have to decide if it was...
View Articlejustcorbly commented on 'Not with a whimper'
Shoemaker-Levy, a 2km comet discovered only in 1993, broke into several pieces and hit Jupiter in 1994, punching holes as big as Earth in the Jovian atmosphere. It was nice of Jupiter to suck it down...
View ArticleJim Langer commented on 'Not with a whimper'
Quit your jobs and spend every minute with those you love. Farm and share food. Laugh, 'cause there'd be only a smattering of a chance we'd survive, apparently. If you felt so moved, accept...
View ArticleJordan 1 commented on 'Not with a whimper'
You have inspired me to adapt this project for my high school level design class.
View ArticleJeffrey Sykes commented on 'Not with a whimper'
Cool. I can listen to this and then this when I take off in my space ship to the next planet. Or I could do this now.
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