Apophis - The Earth's forseeable threat.
The year: 2029
The size estimation: 270 meters
If this asteroid passes through what is considered a gravitational keyhole then in the year 2036 an impact with Earth is on the odds of 1 in 45,000.
In this thread you consider what to do to a) deflect said asteroid or b)prepare for impact.
I'll take 1 in 45,000.
Let's assume the earth is at 23,571.
Here's some random numbers:
2,194
39,248
30,036
3,999
28,565
i think we might be okay
I would smoke so much that I'd get so high i wouldn't recognize the fire burning in your eyes
i thought iw as the only one who still listened to maroon 5Originally Posted by coqauvin
You human beings have had it too good for too long! It's about damn time for something like this to happen so me and the rest of the mole men can rise up and claim what is rightfully ours!
this made me smile
When we take over, I'll consider capturing you instead of killing you like the rest of mankind. Once enslaved you can be a gladiator, a street sweeper, or have your own habitat in our zoo.
Choose wisely.
Took the joke too far
Hey, it's not a joke until relentlessly beaten into the ground by yours truly.
I say we send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to blow the mother fucker up.
I hear the voices inside my head. They counsel me. They understand. They talk to me.
Leave ben affleck up there this time
I'll just do what I always do and hide behind jupiter.
I'll just do what I always do and hide behind Dai Tengu.
You don't want to die a virgin do you?
Well humanity is going to come to an end in 2012 so it doesn't matter.
I will do precisley what I did on 9/11 - Not give a shit because I am not dead and I have internet and TV to keep me busy.
Is 2029 the year when the asteroid may or may not pass through this gravitational keyhole?
Also, what kind of impact would an asteroid of 270 meters create? I NEED TO KNOW.
Assuming an impact velocity of ~12 km/s (pretty typical), you'd get a ~500 megaton blast (equivalent to 500 million tons of TNT, or 25,000 Hiroshima bombs) and a crater several miles across (assuming a land impact). For reference, a 200 megaton explosion (Krakatoa eruption in 1883) messed up the global climate for several years.
It would make a hole approximately 270 meters across
lol
That's not how science works
Since when are you a scientist?That's not how science works
I hear the voices inside my head. They counsel me. They understand. They talk to me.
If the world is going to end, hopefully it's something definite that we have no hopes of stopping and we only find out about it like a half hour before it happens.
Yes, 2029 is the keyhole year and then 2039 is the possible impact year.
Some trajectories would place the impact off the coast of California. The results of which of course would be devastating, for much of the west coast not to mention the east Asia... oh and the possibility of impact winter.
By 2036 it is very likely that we would be able to prevent an impact, in the instance that such an event proved likely.
Current ideas are gravitational traction, nuclear impact and like changing momentum.
Yeah, we actually have enough theoretically sound ideas that the chances of an actual impact are much greater than 1 in 45,000. Can't forget about the human factor.
I'm going to take the world in a love embrace
fire all of the guns at once and explode into space
Haha...Steppenwolf. Now we're talkin'.
I hear the voices inside my head. They counsel me. They understand. They talk to me.
Send Rosie O' Donnell into outer space and her gravitational pull will alter the course of Apophis into an orbit around her.
You write a lot like Exodite Prime.
already called it
I am he.
Prove it.
I want a three post long autobiographical piece of art.
I hear the voices inside my head. They counsel me. They understand. They talk to me.
sounds like xenu's going to make a comeback
Coincidence that this just so happens to be the name of a System Lord in Stargate SG-1?
I think not.
If anyone's interested, it's actually named after [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep"]Apep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Apep_1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Apep_1.jpg/220px-Apep_1.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/a/a7/Apep_1.jpg/220px-Apep_1.jpg[/ame], an Egyptian snake-demon who was regarded as a pretty undesirable character.
I thought Apophis was just an architect?
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also, this is old news.
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but it still turns me on
I'll probably make a post about it.
2039 eh? Ok, so I'd be 52? Fuck that, I won't be around that long. It's my (lack of) children's problem.
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