The day Earth had a near-miss with a 'city-killer' asteroid

[Old Man]

OK nailed by a major heat wave and then almost having things end (possibly), so is somebody trying to tell us something. 'cause it aint funny...

"[If it hit Earth] it makes the bang of a very large nuclear weapon – a very large one."

How big?

"It would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima," says Swinburne University astronomer Associate Professor Alan Duffy.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...er-asteroid-this-morning-20190725-p52apn.html

 

[StriderX]

Aww, oh well.

 

[Rroff]

You know - going by events earlier in the year (basically simulations for just such an event) I'm not so sure it caught us as by surprise as they are making out and original calculations probably put it at a non-negligible chance of impact.

I do wonder if we'll ever get a swarm of them sometime rather than odd individual ones.

 

[Efour]

100% proof that God exists and loves us all, even the homosexuals.

 

[Gerard]

If it had hit Detroit I doubt anyone would have noticed.

 

[Malevolence]

Jesus, 70,000km? That is a scarily close miss. Time to invade Klendathu.

 

[Diddums]

is somebody trying to tell us something.

Yes. Stop smoking weed or we're all gonna die.

 

[Jamauk]

Reminds me of the film Armageddon, the thing could have been completely destroyed if they'd sent up Bruce Willis with a nuclear weapon.

 

[VincentHanna]

Or, rather than train a drilling team to become astronauts....just trained astronauts to drill.

 

[LuckyBenski]

Or, rather than train a drilling team to become astronauts....just trained astronauts to drill.

Unions would never allow it.

 

[Old Man]

Yes. Stop smoking weed or we're all gonna die.

But..... The weed is all and mighty, all hail The Weed!

 

[glenimp617]

better luck next time

earth reboot 3.0

dinosaurs too stupid
humans too stupid
???

 

[Terminal_Boy]

If it had hit Detroit I doubt anyone would have noticed.

Indeed. There were plans to film a Fallout movie there, but they would have blown the budget cleaning the place up to Wasteland standards.

 

[wolfie138]

better luck next time

earth reboot 3.0

dinosaurs too stupid
humans too stupid
???

how were the dinosaurs stupid?

 

[PlacidCasual]

how were the dinosaurs stupid?

They failed to design build and operate an adequate asteroid detection and mitigation system

 

[glenimp617]

They failed to design build and operate an adequate asteroid detection and mitigation system

^ This

I doubt a creature with it's mouth bigger than it's brain would ever develop space travel, or any kind of asteroid detection

They are giant lizards......granted, they wouldn't have ruined the planet, developed weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons, poisons gas, filled it full of plastics etc etc.... so I give them that over stupid humans

 

[Gerard]

Indeed. There were plans to film a Fallout movie there, but they would have blown the budget cleaning the place up to Wasteland standards.

I remember watching a video a couple of years back with a guy in a car videoing the place, some areas looked like they were straight out of Mad Max. Has some "good" areas but the bad areas seem REALLY bad.

 

[Mr.Cookie]

Jesus, 70,000km? That is a scarily close miss. Time to invade Klendathu.

Would you like to know more?

 

[wolfie138]

They failed to design build and operate an adequate asteroid detection and mitigation system

how do you know? I propose they build a very effective one and saw what was coming and left the planet in specially built spaceships. the ones left behind were disbelievers or thought dinogod would save them; there wasn't many, which is why fossils are few and far between.

 

[PlacidCasual]

how do you know? I propose they build a very effective one and saw what was coming and left the planet in specially built spaceships. the ones left behind were disbelievers or thought dinogod would save them; there wasn't many, which is why fossils are few and far between.

Citation needed. Fake news. Alternative Facts.

The goddamn dinosaurs used a transporter beam, any fool know.