Asteroid a MILE wide to hurtle past Earth in 72 HOURS - as experts warn of MASS EXTINCTION

[safcforever]

As Calvert once said Space is infinite it is dark! Space is neutral it is Cold! Stars occupy mynute areas of space they are clustered a few billion here a few billion there as if seeking consolation in numbers! - so true

Bet he was loads of fun on the piss

 

[Crook Mackem]

its only a mile across and by my estimations the world is thousands of miles circumferential, thereby anything a poxy mile across is hardly likely to cause much disruption.

scare mongerers

chances are it would probably land in the sea anyway

 

[ajthemackem]

its only a mile across and by my estimations the world is thousands of miles circumferential, thereby anything a poxy mile across is hardly likely to cause much disruption.

scare mongerers

chances are it would probably land in the sea anyway

It's not so much the size of it as the mass and the speed you have to worry about.

 

[Cockney Mackem]

It's not so much the size of it as the mass and the speed you have to worry about.

Patrick Moore once tried to reassure people about this kind of thing, saying that the empty spaces around the earth are much bigger than the planet itself making us a tiny target in a huge area. Had he been more conversant with SAFC he might have likened the force firing out these objects to Jozy Altidore doing the crossbar challenge with the meteor as the football and planet earth as the crossbar.

 

[Edinburgh Black Cat]

Patrick Moore once tried to reassure people about this kind of thing, saying that the empty spaces around the earth are much bigger than the planet itself making us a tiny target in a huge area. Had he been more conversant with SAFC he might have likened the force firing out these objects to Jozy Altidore doing the crossbar challenge with the meteor as the football and planet earth as the crossbar.

Exactly. If several million miles away is close then the chance of something a mile wide hitting us is miniscule.

 

[ajthemackem]

Patrick Moore once tried to reassure people about this kind of thing, saying that the empty spaces around the earth are much bigger than the planet itself making us a tiny target in a huge area. Had he been more conversant with SAFC he might have likened the force firing out these objects to Jozy Altidore doing the crossbar challenge with the meteor as the football and planet earth as the crossbar.

Danny Graham scored on Saturday.

 

[Deleted member 30853]

Danny Graham scored on Saturday.

But it still bounced off another object on the way.

 

[Spot]

Exactly. If several million miles away is close then the chance of something a mile wide hitting us is miniscule.

and yet we are hit every day by objects mere centimetres in diameter go figure

 

[becs]

Has it gone past yet? I forgot and I've just put the bathroom towels out on the line.

 

[Edinburgh Black Cat]

and yet we are hit every day by objects mere centimetres in diameter go figure

Yes, obviously things will hit us because there are millions of things out there.

We are talking about 1 specific object.

 

[Kent_Mackem]

Exactly. If several million miles away is close then the chance of something a mile wide hitting us is miniscule.

Is there a threshold distance below which The Earth's gravity changes the course of on object to "suck it in"?
Genuinely don't know, was wondering if somebody did.

 

[Spot]

Yes, obviously things will hit us because there are millions of things out there.

We are talking about 1 specific object.

one very large specific object upon which gravity can exert its inexorable pull

 

[ajthemackem]

one very large specific object upon which gravity can exert its inexorable pull

Titus Bramble?

 

[Mainze]

Fuck it, im off to max out my credit cards on Eastern European hookers and Bolivias finest.

It better hit.

 

[deleted user 785]

Need some drilling experts at hand, just in case like.

 

[Crook Mackem]

It's not so much the size of it as the mass and the speed you have to worry about.

Think of it like this. You are in your car and a fly travelling at 100mph hits the windscreen. The fly is dead, the car moves on. FACT

 

[PinzaC55]

As Calvert once said Space is infinite it is dark! Space is neutral it is Cold! Stars occupy mynute areas of space they are clustered a few billion here a few billion there as if seeking consolation in numbers! - so true

Space is a property of the Universe. If it is infinite why is the Universe still expanding ?

 

[ajthemackem]

Think of it like this. You are in your car and a fly travelling at 100mph hits the windscreen. The fly is dead, the car moves on. FACT

Think of it like this: You've got a ball of rock an eighth the size of Mt Everest travelling at 30,000 MPH hurtling at wuh.

 

[Spot]

Think of it like this: You've got a ball of rock an eighth the size of Mt Everest travelling at 30,000 MPH hurtling at wuh.

will @becs towels or indeed her unmentionables survive the impact

 

[Freddie the Greek]

Are we dead yet?