NEAR MISS

[Yoink 7]

we are statistically 100% likely to have a 0% survival asteroid hit on earth according to computer models. But I think the range is thousands if not hundreds of thousand of years.

what is more concerning is the statistical probability of getting bird droppings to land on your shoulder... which sad to say has happened to me.

[almaty 19]

I heard it skipped off Barney Frank's head and saved us all! DOH! :dance:

why do you hate gheys?

?? who said anything about that? I don't respect him cause he is a crook

\how about all the others ?

LOL talk about getting off subject fast sheesh

lol.. i am just joking...

[MMW 2]

Link

This must be it.

Yes cleo that's he one i was posting about.

[MissStacey 1]

The thought of an asteroid hitting earth is truly horrifying.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I'm very happy it missed - even if it was by a small margin

A near miss is as good as a mile (give or take a million), except for hand grenades, and thermonuclear weapons!

[HAL 9000 96]

I blame the liberals for not doing anything about it.

as they control the media, hmmmmmmm good point

Yep. Darn libruls. Pitchfork time!

The thought of an asteroid hitting earth is truly horrifying.

Well at least (if it happens during our lives) we'll be horrified for a short amount of time.

[Peikko 1,575]

Unless it hits Siberia, again. Then we simply won't care.

[almaty 19]

didn't that happen in the early 1900s?

[Peikko 1,575]

didn't that happen in the early 1900s?

Apparently so...

"Surprise miss

In 1908, an object with a similar size exploded over Siberia, flattening 80 million trees over an area of 2,000 square km (800 square miles) near the Tunguska river.

"There is still a lot of debate over how big the Tunguska object was," Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast, told BBC News."

[almaty 19]

wow...that is allot of trees

[Ban Hammer 13,644]

wow...that is allot of trees

yup. just think of what meteor crater in arizona was like when that happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

about 50,000 years ago.

Edited March 4, 2009 by charles!

[Ladylethal 12]

Wow, does this goes to show that when things are actually indeed very bad the governments or agencies responsible for huge impact catastrophes just hide it?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The center of the Yucatán crater at latitude 21º30' N, longitude 89º50' W lies at the village of Chicxulub, near Progreso on the Caribbean coast. Determining the size and outer perimeters of the crater have been much aided by the clustering of secondary, erosional features including cenotes or sinkholes (Maya dz'onot), many providing water sources at Maya sites shown on the map.

The Yucatán peninsula is a low-lying limestone platform which rose out of shallow seas during the Pleistocene, 2 million years ago and later. The 65 million year old crater site is buried under Quaternary (Pleistocene and Holocene) carbonate sediments from 0.6 to 1.0 km thick, lying over Tertiary sandstones and volcanic rocks which, in turn, immediately overlie the impact site at the Cretaceous- Tertiary boundary. The northern half of the now-buried crater today lies in shallow waters of the Sea of Campeche.

[NickD 203]

I'm very happy it missed - even if it was by a small margin

Better luck next time?

It's our moon's job to catch those asteroids, may have to fire the moon. Jupiter is suppose to catch the really big ones.

Where is Bruce Willis when we really need him?

[Ban Hammer 13,644]

Wow, does this goes to show that when things are actually indeed very bad the governments or agencies responsible for huge impact catastrophes just hide it?

or, as was said on the movie armageddon, "it's a big azz sky!"