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#59 Madagascar, that sounds like an excellent subject for your very own blog, where writing such lengthy posts will be a matter for your descretion only.
Note to Mods… if you kill Madagascar’s comment, please kill this as well.
[editor — we only killed 99 pages of Madagascar’s comment!]
ROCK AND ROLL WILL SURVIVE!
I have two reactions…
1) Who cares? If your time is up, what’s the difference if your’e hit by a car or vaporized by a planetoid. What exactly is the importance of the endless survival of humankind?
2) We’re slowly destroying the earth like termites anyway. We rip up the oxygen producing forests, shit everything imaginable into the water we drink, pump tons upon tons of poisonous gasses into the atmosphere we breath, procreate more people than the earth can feed, and on and on. But hey, it’s all worth it because we’ve got lots of neat stuff.
By the time that big scary rock hits, we may welcome it.
The voice over is talking about how John Dvorak gets no spam!
Did anyone else see Bruce Willis and Steve Bushemi riding the planetoid during its fatal collision
My comment about canned food was only a joke! I saw a report towards the end of 1999 of some crazies stacking TONS of canned food in their church basement in some place like Deadbeathorse, AZ, ready for the Bad Times caused by the Millenium Bug. I wonder if they’ve eaten it yet?
WHAT IS PLANET X?
Planet X is a planet that the ancient Sumerians referred to as “Nibiru.”
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An English translation is available under the “About This Video” on the video’s YouTube page. As for the simulated diameter and velocity, that rock is moving pretty fast:
“The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower.”
Push Mars closer to the sun almost in earth orbit and terraform it. Now we have a place to escape to…I will start building the thruster rockets this weekend after my honey-do list…
What happens if this blog get’s hit by a monterous post the size of Madagascar?
All life on Blog stares in awe ot the pending disaster. Miliseconds after initial impact the blog distorts violently, sending words and letters flying to the perimiter. Scroll bars caught in an imobile state of time-space, appear endless.
But as quick as the realization of pending doom, our God wiggles his fingers and the monsterous post disappears below the surface, leaving little trace of it’s former self.
Halleluiah!
Fiction.
If an object that size approached earth, the gravitational forces would rip apart the earth’s crust long before it hit the earth. The severe earthquakes, with all the accompanying devastations, would be beyond current comprehension. Literally, we would be holding onto whatever we could because of the shaking, we would never notice the asteroid / moon approaching. Between the earthquake damage and shock wave, there would be nothing left alive on earth.
Could it happen? Probably a very minor possibility for an object that size, there just are not that many out there floating through space. All known large objects have been captured into orbits already. Any other large objects have already impacted a planet.
A much smaller object becomes that much more probable as there are proportionally that many more of them. An asteroid of only a few miles across could still cause severe damage, especially depending upon what direction it hit the earth from.
But hey, the animation was good practice for those kids looking for a job.
Uncle Dave, I noticed you couldn’t resist publishing Madagascar Penquins diatrabe. You could have stopped at page 98. 😉
#70 JimR, I hope this isn’t just the beginning of the dreaded “Madagascar Shower” that was prophesied in Revelation.
Mr. H, his post has become a victim of survival of the fitest (ie, evolution) through the application of the all powerful, Hand Of Dvorak [cue thunder] that we, his lowly editors, are free to wield at will in fulfilling His Guidelines as writ on the holy Microsoft Origami Tablets.
According to my Japanese source, the video says that the temperature heat wave that blast through the planet will happen in ONE day. Temperatures on the planet will be as high as 4000 degrees C. Within one month, the ocean’s water will evaporate at a rate of around 10 – 15 cm a second.
Nothing would survive this kind of impact…
#72 Gary, no worries. The fiery shower came well before the “great burning mountain” landed in the sea and killed one third of its creatures, or the “great star” hit the earth and fouled one third of the rivers with poison. But there’s no need for either anymore, we did it ourselves and we’re way ahead of schedule. God MUST be impressed.
Gary, The Revelation I referred to was lost from scripture long ago, but I happened to come across it while digging in my garden.
Revelation 9:22
“The seventh angel sounded, and one third of the most prominent blog was struck by a huge input of data, mortal words became meaningless, and one third of the bloggers had scrolls of the Dead Sea. A great thunder rumbled across the land and it sounded like “crap!”. Suddenly the data receeded and all manner of contributions returned as it was.”
sorry guys….this is a far more realistic end of the world scenerio.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/endofworld.html
You guys are all idiots…..I just thank God that in my lifetime I won’t have to worry about it……The fact is, if the asteroid that hits us is 5-10 miles across, we shall all most likely die, and the people on the coast…..well, may they swim well…..there is no end that will be nice and sweet for this world, may we all be lucky enough to die in old age, and peacefully……
damn north koreans ,
This is just Wonderful, I mean think about it
The Right Wing Conservatives would be happy cause you wouldn’t have to pay taxes
The Left Wing Liberals would love it cause they could say we were right all along
The Church would be happy cause they could stop fighting off gay marriages and abortions
The doom and Gloomers would be happy
I mean, come on its the perfect answer for every group, sect, religious belief…I would think they would welcome such a Horrific end to the world.
I know this observation has already been posted, but that sucker is quite obviously rivaling our moon in size. Even the largest known asteroid, ceres, doesnt come close. Its pretty far fetched for that reason. We should more likely worry about a 1.5- 5 km object. Such an object probably wouldnt create the cinematic grandeur displayed here, but would still cause a horrific heat flash, tidal waves, and the most colossal earthquake in history. thinks would be quite different for any survivors than what we are used to to be sure. What really worries me are comets. They are moving super fast, can appear in a few months, and sneak up on us quite effectively. If hale Bopp had hit us with its 20 km+ nucleus at cometary speeds, it would have probably exterminated all multicellular life on the planet. Its a pretty vid but very far fetched.
I don’t mean to flog a dead penguin here, but in no way does Relevations depict the destruction of earth by an asteroid. The “fallout” brought forth by the first angel comes BEFORE “a great burning mountain” is thrown into the sea by the second angel killing 1/3 of the sea creatures (geez, what did they do to deserve that) but apparently insufficient to hurt land dwellers, and then “a great star” falls from the sky sprinkling 1/3 of the rivers and springs with Wormwood, which is an herb. (neat trick, but not typical of a wayward asteroid or bowling with Planet X).
Fortunately Wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium), although very bitter and foul tasting is not exactly bad. In fact, for medicinal use, the herb is used to make a tea (which is unbelievably bitter to taste). Its use has been claimed to remedy insufficient gastric acid, to promote blood circulation in the pelvic regions and biliary excretions, act as a disinfectant, and as a vermifuge. It is also used in spirits and wines such as Vermouth. Yum. Wormwood falling into 1/3 of our streams would make a healty tea for some and provide a natural flea and moth repellant for others. Scary stuff.
I like to think out of the box a bit. We are always talking about asteroids or some other impactor hitting the planet. If it hit the moon and knocked it out of our orbit or hit it and annihilated it, the damage would cause the end of life on earth as we know it from falling moon ejecta made up of rock and plasma. Lunar tides would stop and cause global climate change worse than anything we could imagine (unless of course it did hit Earth instead).
#76 joshua, great Flash video — two thumbs up!
#81 JimR, at the risk of stating the obvious, your first mistake was the research. Just BELIEVE, dammit!
#79 Tom, even on a Monday, I feel comfortable awarding the “Spinmeister of the Week” award to you, for showing us why apocalyptic death is a huge win for all of us!
well yes, every one who talked about science is right won’t happen LIKE that ,smaller astroid bunch of different stuff,
I found this very interest. But I wish I knew what she was saying.
Colin said there are sites to dl this. Colin could you or someone else please post a direct url to one. I’d be very thankful to that person.
Even if I can’t understand a word she says. I’d still like to have this.
Thanks.
Cathryn Collins
Oh and you can just email me the url if you rather.
Thanks again. This really is an interesting take on a ‘what if’. And the vid was well done too. Loved the music. Still would be nice to know what she was all saying tho.
Cathryn Collins
very interesting.should it come to pass, all life as we know it would cease to exist. not a pretty thought
This movie was pretty bad actually. I’m not a scientist but I will just tell you what I have read in scientist periodicals and seen on science-TV.
First. Did you see the size of that thing that hit the earth? It was enormous. If a thing that big would hit the earth earth would have been blow into pieces instantly.
When they have showed programs about a scenario like this on TV here in Sweden they have said that even a small rock would have a searious inpact on earth. A rock about 100 m in diameter would make serious damage to earth. In the speed the rock hits earth it would release and enormous amount of energy. A rock at 1000 m in diameter would mean the end to the life on earth. I don’t remember how much but it would be like millions of atomic bombs at once or something like that. All the dust from the hit would cover earth and make earth cold and dead and we would see a new ice-age for thousands of years. All life on earth would die. A rock of the size in that movie would probably tear the earth apart.
Cathyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHdYBet_4Q
I have to agree with statement made from Marshall (comment #82). As trivial as it may seem the slightest alteration of the moons orbital path from an asteriod or comit impact would have profound consequences for earth.
They should put Godzilla on the moon to eat the asteroids.