[UPDATE] — Apparently this vid is now hot to watch as CoasttoCoastAM and other big sites have discovered it. Enjoy.
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Thanks, Uncle Dave.
It’s a very creative piece of work. I wish I knew what the voiceover was saying.
This clip is from the NHK and canadian Discovery channel production called Miracle Planet. It is a 5 parter. You can dl it off torrent sites.
I don’t understand Japanese – did they say how many weeks’ supply of tinned food we should stash in the basement for when this happens?
One has to believe that the average density and harness of astronomical bodies has to be very similar… if so, then the body striking the earth should have also had some physical damage; at the moment of impact, its surface should have started distorting…
Good animation, but it does not seem to obey the laws of physics…
It would take 5+ years of stored foods, to clean the atmosphere.
IF,
It didnt destroy the atmosphere.
If you werent with in 500 mles of impact.
IF it didnt Polute the earth with something that we cant control.
Someone said in an above post that the object striking the earth should have also had some physical dame…. I just wanted t point out that the object striking the earth completely liquified.
personally I think the more interesting subject would be how an object that size could throw the earth completely out of orbit.
By the looks of the size of the planetoid in this video, this would most likely split the earth wide open like an over ripe grape, if not blow it into a billion pieces. Heck, the planetoid in this video looks like it is the size of the Moon.
Does anybody here understand Japanese? What exactly is the point of this animation, other than morbid curiosity and/or the Japanese’ fascination with tsunamis and nuclear explosions.
I find it interesting that the animation shows the asteroid hitting off the coast of Japan. Where was Godzilla to stop this thing?
Wow.. now that’s what I call global warming.
I expect Godzilla to appear at the end of the clip.
looks like the death star at one point
DAM! THAT WAS SCARY AND IT SURE MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW ALL OF US ARE SO VULNERABLE WE REALLY ARE…
AND NO WE DON’T NEED TO SPEAK JAPANEESE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF THIS VIDEO…
what happened to the angular momentum. on top of that, the trajectory is completely unrealistic. the large body distortions weren’t accounted for or explained at all, either.
…. but her voice is sooo reassuring.
Recent reports tell us we wouldn’t see the thing coming, well, unless it WAS super gigantic, maybe, but that we’d have a few seconds at most to see it tearing through the atmosphere before tearing us a new navel. I realize the video was slow motion. I’d like to see an animation, real-time, of how it would look from Japan. Over in a flash…..guess I really didn’t have much to say. I’m more interested in what a smaller asteroid could do. Yay Youtube! funny Godzilla comments….surprized they haven’t worked this angle into a movie …yet, or, have they?????
Hey, it’s a fictional animation. I don’t think they are trying to create a
blockbuster movie ( i.e The Day after Tomorrow). Point is something
like this may be possible. I think the message got across.
Totally unrealistic. This should only scare the uninformed.
This scenario simply couldn’t happen, it defies Newtonian Physics at several levels.
Cute, makes great hyperbole entertainment for the sky is falling crowd but it’s just fantasy. Chill. Only with computer graphics is this possible.
I’m surprised Al Gore didn’t pop up and warn us that this is all our fault. If he were president, he could stop this, right?
The possibility of this happening is 100%, it’s not a question of if, but when. For those unaware, top scientist and Governments have been studying ways to deflect or destroy astroids that may pose a threat to the Earth. At present we are at risk of being hit sometime around 2012. And for the guy asking how much canned food to store up, forget it, all life will be destroyed within minuets of impact if something as large as what was depected in the video hits Earth.
Well,couple quick observations. The object looked like Jupiter moon that is now known to be huge space ship replica,at the end earth looked like a binary burnt out sun tht is missing in our suns world.
Pretty cool animation,could visualize the feeling of people as the huge shadow of death made its appearance overhead,YIPES!
I sure hope they are not trying to give us a HINT of anything.
I prefer the direct approach.
I saw Godzilla running for dear life out of the ocean too!
Anyone else see the candy-butt?
Bring it on ! It would be nice to have a warning, at least long enough to set up lawn chairs.
Uh, this video, while pretty, is ridiculous. For you posters who say that it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” we’ll be struck by an “asteroid” please note that the size of the object in this clip is roughly the size of the moon…not the size of the asteroids that are generally tracked / watched / worried about (which are much smaller).
On top of that, why would anybody even ask the question “what would happen if earth was struck by a planetoid?” You might as well as “what would happen if earth was overrun by a colony of 700-foot tall chinchillas” because it’s probably not gonna happen (although I’m sure that video would be equally entertaining).
And, again, to the posters that said we “wouldn’t see this coming” um, yeah, I’m pretty sure we’d see something the size of the moon coming. For quite a while. Like, years.
Hey Jeremy, her voice was reassuring. I felt a total calm while everything and everyone burned! Those Japenese are smoothe talkers.
The object seemed to be suspended, and in slow motion before hitting. The graphics were cool but, for me at least, they didn’t seem realistic.
“Hie! — Uhhhh… Moshee Moshee. “
Interesting video but I have two criticisms:
1. The impactor is atypically spherical given its size.
2 The energy liberation of the passage of the impactor through the earths atmosphere at cosmic velocities would give rise to luminosities exceeding that of the sun. admittedly this phenominnon would be exceedingly transient but it is not depicted in the video.
3. Shock waves would not only propagate through the target at hypersonic velicities but also through the impactor. vaporizing all but a small proportion of the trailing surface of the latter. Also not depicted in the video.
4. Secondary impacts created by some ejecta would also be sufficient to create impact craters.
5. the lens of moltem material would not be relagated to the impact structures interior. There would be similar lenses formed by impact melt splash.
Nice animation but as somesomeone already mentioned it defies the laws of physics. A planetoid that size be captured by one of the outer planets, Jupitor and it probably wouldn’t come near the inner planets. And if it did The suns gavitaional pull would most likely rip it apart before it neared anywhere near mars.
Something to think about, iam 65 years old and my Grand Mother told me when i was small child. THAT IT IS ALWAYS,BETTER TO THANK THAT IS-THEN TO THINK IT IS NOT
I agree with Vic, the outer gas giants, Jupitor or Saturn would most likley capture it before it came anywhere near the inner planets. And even if it did, if it was travelling at that speed the sun’s gravitional pull would probably suck it in to the sun.
The planetiod that was used in the simulation is the same size of the planetiod that was responsible for the creation of the Moon in Earth’s early history (About 3.5 billions years ago). I think that this size planetiod would be a Planet Killer!
An impactor of that size would be torn apart at the Roche Limit where the gravitational stress of earth would overcome that of the smaller body. Small matter but wasn’t shown in the video.
This was a very optimistic view of what would happen if we were hit with something of that size. The Earth would crack open (if not worse) hit with something that size.