[News] We all nearly died last Thursday

[LlcoolJ]

Highly recommend watching Brian Cox the planets, it's incredible how earth is in the perfect position for life to flourish, I think its Jupiter that sucks in most of the asteroids heading for us

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You're right. It's a cracking series. Been watching it with the nipper.

 

[Wellesley]

People keep coming up with these 'Armageddon' stories like there's no tomorrow.

 

[LowKarate]

We all nearly died,
We all nearly died,
Ee aye Addio,
We all nearly died.

 

[LamieRobertson]

What a difference a week makes...Tuesday last week a tad hot ..as I type it’s crap weather

 

[sydney]

Oh well.


‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-didnt-detect-it-time/?utm_term=.9fc13f182fa1

Scientists revealed an asteroid dubbed by some as a "city killer" came closer to the Earth than the moon this week. The Washington Post reported that scientists apparently had no idea it was coming.


Asteroid 2019 OK came hurtling toward Earth at a speed of nearly 15 miles a second, before flying past. According to NASA, it was about 45,000 miles from Earth on Thursday.

"It would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima," astronomer professor Alan Duffy told the Sydney Morning Herald. Duffy called the zooming space rock a "city killer."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/astero...roid-misses-earth-and-scientists-had-no-idea/


Although I guess it could have hit Croydon and done £8.74 worth of improvements.

one minute its a pyramid the next minute its wembley .....then its 12 double decker buses ...i mean for **** sake , you really couldn't make this shit up ....!!

 

[el punal]

I think if they DID know a meteor was going to hit in (say) a month or two's time and wipe us out in an extinction event, we'd not be told about it, because all society would immediately break down and descend into complete chaos and anarchy. It'd be the end of days. Of course the news might "leak", but would people believe it ?

You’re absolutely right on all counts, however . . . . f***ing hell! WTF was that big bang? . . . . .

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Perhaps it was Ulloa penalty doing a fly-past

 

[Hamilton]

Oh well.


‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-didnt-detect-it-time/?utm_term=.9fc13f182fa1

Scientists revealed an asteroid dubbed by some as a "city killer" came closer to the Earth than the moon this week. The Washington Post reported that scientists apparently had no idea it was coming.


Asteroid 2019 OK came hurtling toward Earth at a speed of nearly 15 miles a second, before flying past. According to NASA, it was about 45,000 miles from Earth on Thursday.

"It would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima," astronomer professor Alan Duffy told the Sydney Morning Herald. Duffy called the zooming space rock a "city killer."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/astero...roid-misses-earth-and-scientists-had-no-idea/


Although I guess it could have hit Croydon and done £8.74 worth of improvements.

Not possible.

The world is flat.

These so called experts.

#FakeAsteroid

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Highly recommend watching Brian Cox the planets, it's incredible how earth is in the perfect position for life to flourish, I think its Jupiter that sucks in most of the asteroids heading for us

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Indeed it is, the gas giant that is Jupiter deflects many asteroids that are on our path off into another orbit.

A damn good bloke is Jupiter.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Perhaps it was Ulloa penalty doing a fly-past

That ball is probabaly sitting on Jupiter as we speak.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

I think if they DID know a meteor was going to hit in (say) a month or two's time and wipe us out in an extinction event, we'd not be told about it, because all society would immediately break down and descend into complete chaos and anarchy. It'd be the end of days. Of course the news might "leak", but would people believe it ?

Why would it matter at that point, if society descended into chaos and anarchy?

 

[Pickles]

Nonsense post title.

In space terms, it was pretty close, but it wouldn't have been the end of the world.

If it had hit a populated area, of course it would have caused a local disaster of magnitude, but only local.

The odds of it hitting an inhabited area would have been miniscule anyhow, seeing as the vast majority of the earth is uninhabited.

 

[A1X]

Nonsense post title.

In space terms, it was pretty close, but it wouldn't have been the end of the world.

If it had hit a populated area, of course it would have caused a local disaster of magnitude, but only local.

The odds of it hitting an inhabited area would have been miniscule anyhow, seeing as the vast majority of the earth is uninhabited.

And THIS is why you never get picked up for writing those Hollywood blockbuster disaster films, you and your logic & facts.

 

[Pickles]

And THIS is why you never get picked up for writing those Hollywood blockbuster disaster films, you and your logic & facts.

Lol. Funnily enough, it's the monthly meeting of my astronomy club tonight, where I'm sure it will be discussed over a beer or two!

 

[Stat Brother]

And THIS is why you never get picked up for writing those Hollywood blockbuster disaster films, you and your logic & facts.

Exactamondo.

Where's the gravitas in:-

'Earth was passed by a surprise asteroid, slightly closer than usual, everyone is fine'.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

That ball is probabaly sitting on Jupiter as we speak.

Could be worse, could be sitting on Uranus

 

[Easy 10]

Why would it matter at that point, if society descended into chaos and anarchy?

Surely for the civilised world it would be preferable to live out the last weeks of our lives in relative peace in a functioning society with our families, rather than basically spending our last remaining days on Earth on one giant set of Mad Max 2 in amongst burning cars, looted shops and hollow eyed slack-jawed spacked-out junkies eating each others brains (or as its more commonly known, Croydon).

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Could be worse, could be sitting on Uranus

And all the time l just thought it was a boil on my bum.

 

[Stat Brother]

Surely for the civilised world it would be preferable to live out the last weeks of our lives in relative peace in a functioning society with our families, rather than basically spending our last remaining days on Earth on one giant set of Mad Max 2 in amongst burning cars, looted shops and hollow eyed slack-jawed spacked-out junkies eating each others brains (or as its more commonly known, Croydon).

I bet a surprising number of people would still go to work!


Not me, I hasten to add, I don't want to go when it's a little bit windy, let alone mass extinction.

 

[Nottseagull]

Highly recommend watching Brian Cox the planets, it's incredible how earth is in the perfect position for life to flourish

Earth is absolutely teeming with life, so rather credible that it's in the perfect position for it to flourish.